{"product_id":"wakening-the-crow-9781948405966","title":"Wakening the Crow","description":"\u003cp\u003eOliver Gooch comes across a tooth in a velvet box, with a note from 1888 saying it belonged to a young Edgar Allan Poe. When he converts an old church to a bookshop selling strange and occult titles, he displays the tooth there, calling the store Poe's Tooth Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the bookstore has been bought with blood money: Oliver and his wife Rosie received a large cash settlement when their young daughter Chloe was left brain-damaged after a hit-and-run accident. Rosie hopes the child will soon return to normal, but Oliver is secretly relieved by his daughter's condition, dreading that if she recovers she'll reveal a terrible truth about him. Then one freezing night a raggedy, skeletal crow comes into the shop and refuses to leave. The bird infiltrates their lives, altering Oliver and Rosie's relationship and affecting Chloe in strange ways. It becomes a dangerous presence in the firelit, shadowy old church. Inexorably, the family, the tooth, the crow, and their story will draw to a terrifying climax.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWakening the Crow\u003c\/em\u003e is an unsettling novel of creeping menace by a modern-day master of psychological horror, Stephen Gregory, award-winning author of the contemporary classic \u003cem\u003eThe Cormorant\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Valancourt Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50862132658450,"sku":"9781948405966","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8f5041f0-8510-4e99-b38f-ba6ba96db7e8.jpg?v=1737614631","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wakening-the-crow-9781948405966","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}