Horror
One of The Year's Best Books (People, EW, Lithub, Vox, Washington Post, and more) We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us. Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with her child. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. It's as far off the beaten track as they can get. Just one highway in, one highway out. At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. For six long days, no one can find him. Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a treehouse in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again. Twenty years ago, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower made readers everywhere feel infinite. Now, Chbosky has returned with an epic work of literary horror, years in the making, whose grand scale and rich emotion redefine the genre. Read it with the lights on.
Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Originally published in 1921; this edition limited to 400 copies. Dust jacket protected; gray cloth; binding good; top edge lightly foxed; text clean. VG/VG
Arkham House, 1979. 1st edition; dust jacket protected; not price clipped; black cloth; binding tight; text clean. VG/VG
Arkham House, 1964. 1st edition; dust jacket protected; spine slightly faded; black cloth; illustrated endpapers; binding good; text clean. G+/G+
"A must read . . . It's a wonderful thing, digging into a new Josh Malerman novel--no idea what to expect, no clue where his twisted mind is going to take you."--Cemetery Dance
1st edition; dust jacket protected; edges very lightly worn; covers lightly scuffed and scratched; black cloth spine over black paper boards; binding good; very slight cant to volume; text clean. VG/VG
10th Anniversary edition, 2nd printing; signed by author in black ink on ffep; dust jacket protected; rear cover of dj has vertical scratch; black cloth over black paper; binding tight; text clean. VG/G