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She's deeply traumatized by her experience, but she knows she can't seek therapy without seeming completely insane and being put on anti-psychotics.

All Therapists Are Muggles: Mouse finds herself struggling with this in the aftermath.

Action Survivor: Mouse isn't any kind of badass, just a normal person who rises under pressure.

Melissa says that she should have been in the CIA, and Foxy mentions that an agent she slept with once agreed.

Action Girl: Foxy, Melissa's hippy neighbor who winds up helping her deal with the horror.

More tropes than are healthy for your sanity It is set in the modern day, but treats The Green Book and conversation on the nature of evil from the original as fact. Ursula Vernon's 2019 take on the horror classic " The White People". And then things start to get really strange. But then she stumbles on the diary of her step-grandfather, which chronicles his descent into madness and dementia while being abused by Mouse's grandmother, and his inability to leave because of fear of mysterious creatures called The White People and The Twisted ones. And if only those darn woodpeckers would knock it off. The doll collection is a bit much though. The experience is miserable since her grandmother was a hoarder, but at least she meets some nice people in the small town.

Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones is a gripping, terrifying tale bound to keep you up all night-from both fear and anticipation of what happens next.I made faces like the faces on the stones, and I twisted myself like the twisted ones, and I lay down flat like the dead ones.Īn editor named Melissa (and known as Mouse) travels to North Carolina with her daft hound dog to clear out the house of her much hated grandmother. And if she doesn't face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.įrom Hugo Award-winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. That would be horrific enough, but there's more-Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather's journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.Īlone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors-because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they're looking for you.

Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. After all, how bad could it be?Īnswer: pretty bad. When Mouse's dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother's home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show.