{"product_id":"a-child-alone-with-strangers-9781945863929","title":"A Child Alone with Strangers","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Fracassi's novel hits me like a cross between McCammon and '80s King. Might be one of them summer blockbusters readers love.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eLaird Barron, author of \u003ci\u003eWorse Angels\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Child Alone with Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e starts out as a slow burn procedural with supernatural elements and inexorably cranks itself into a pulse-pounding symphony of eldritch horrors and all-too-human violence. Philip Fracassi is the best sort of horror writer--one who is unafraid to hunt for light in even the darkest places.\" --\u003cb\u003eShaun Hamill, author of \u003ci\u003eA Cosmology of Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by miles of forest, he finds himself connecting with a strange force living in the woods--using that bond to wreak havoc against his captors. Unknown to the boy, however, is that this ancient being has its own reasons for wanting the interlopers gone--there is something hidden beneath the house, tucked away in the dark, damp root cellar . . . waiting for its return.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Fracassi\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning author and screenwriter. His story collection, \u003ci\u003eBehold the Void\u003c\/i\u003e, won \"Best Collection of the Year\" from both \u003ci\u003eThis Is Horror\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStrange Aeons Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and has had numerous other short stories published in various magazines and anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eThe Best Horror of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e. The author of \u003ci\u003eBeneath a Pale Sky \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBoys in the Valley\u003c\/i\u003e, you can follow Philip via his social media @philipfracassi.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Talos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676285436178,"sku":"9781945863929","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_181936d1-26a6-4eb2-be5c-c134b6497713.jpg?v=1761052478","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-child-alone-with-strangers-9781945863929","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}