{"product_id":"a-child-alone-with-strangers-paperback","title":"A Child Alone with Strangers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102499279071,"sku":"9781945863929","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/heiaI5XzZK9781945863929.webp?v=1781083370","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/a-child-alone-with-strangers-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}