In the House in the Dark of the Woods..., Laird Hunt
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In the House in the Dark of the Woods

Author: Laird Hunt

Narrator: Laird Hunt

Unabridged: 5 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/16/2018


Synopsis

The eerie, disturbing story of one of our perennial fascinations -- witchcraft in colonial America -- wrapped up in a lyrical novel of psychological suspense.

"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.

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.

In the House in the Dark of the Woods 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.

Author Bio

Laird Hunt is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and translator from the French. A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, he has won the Anisfield­-Wolf Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, and Italy's Bridge prize. His reviews and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. He teaches at Brown University and lives in Providence.

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