{"product_id":"in-the-house-in-the-dark-of-the-woods-9780316515801","title":"In the House in the Dark of the Woods","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe eerie, disturbing story of one of our perennial fascinations -- witchcraft in colonial America -- wrapped up in a lyrical novel of psychological suspense.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods.\" In this horror story set in colonial New England, a law-abiding Puritan woman goes missing. Or perhaps she has fled or abandoned her family. Or perhaps she's been kidnapped, and set loose to wander in the dense woods of the north. Alone and possibly lost, she meets another woman in the forest. Then everything changes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On a journey that will take her through dark woods full of almost-human wolves, through a deep well wet with the screams of men, and on a living ship made of human bones, our heroine may find that the evil she flees has been inside her all along. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the House in the Dark of the Woods\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of psychological horror and suspense told in Laird Hunt's characteristically lyrical prose style. It is the story of a bewitching, a betrayal, a master huntress and her quarry. It is a story of anger, of evil, of hatred and of redemption. It is the story of a haunting, a story that makes up the bedrock of American mythology, told in a vivid way you will never forget.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaird Hunt\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight novels, a collection of stories, and two book-length translations from the French. A 2024 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction, he is also the winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, the Bridge Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, the Pen\/Faulkner and the Prix Femina Étranger. Hunt's reviews and essays have been published in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, \u003c\/i\u003e and many others. He teaches in the Department of Literary Arts at Brown University and lives in Providence.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50612848296210,"sku":"9780316515801","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9e8c08f0-4cc8-484b-8ff4-fad1a39a1cde.jpg?v=1732378742","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-the-house-in-the-dark-of-the-woods-9780316515801","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}