Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone
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Shirley Jackson meets The Twilight Zone in this riveting novel of supernatural horror—for readers who loved Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children A village on the Devil‘s Moor: a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition. There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of revenants, the old mill no one dares to mention. This is where four young friends come of age—in an atmosphere thick with fear and suspicion. Their innocent games soon bring them face-to-face with the village‘s darkest secrets in this eerily dispassionate, astonishingly assured novel, infused with the spirit of the Brothers Grimm and evocative of Stephen King‘s classic short story “Children of the Corn” and the films The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke and Village of the Damned by Wolf Rilla.
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Wanted to love this one but unfortunately it did not turn out for me. For my horror books I do tend to find the suspense or scary parts only worthwhile if the character development is there. If this book was zero horror (which, for my tastes it's nearly there), but great characters (no, not likable - but human and have depth) - then I can still finding myself loving a novel like this. I enjoy both outright gore and more quiet horror aspects but this book missed the mark in both regards. Would be interested in reading more from this author in the future as I feel their writing is nearly there for me.
Sinister, messed up, evil, German mid-twentieth century redneck literary psychological horror. The horror is basically from the people in the village of Hemmersmoor themselves. Things like this give me the heebie-jeebies. And it's quite, quite well-written.
