![]() ![]() The plot for this one was inspired by Algernon Blackwood’s novella, ‘The Willows’, a story which HP Lovecraft considered. Strewn among the islands are the remains of Their meals - and Their experiments.Īnd even if she manages to make it back home again, she can't stop calling Them after her. This story was a really fun and fast-paced horror-fantasy read My interest tends to wane when fantasy elements come into books but The Hollow Places kept me riveted in place with its wit and intensity. Carrot has stumbled into a strange and horrifying world, and They are watching her. A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncles house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel. There's just no space for a corridor in the museum's thin walls - or the concrete bunker at the end of it, or the strange islands beyond the bunker's doors, or the whispering, unseen things lurking in the willow trees. What's creepy is the hole that's been knocked in one of the museum walls, and the corridor behind it. ![]() For Carrot, it's not creepy at all: she grew up with it. The Wonder Museum is packed with taxidermy, shrunken heads, and an assortment of Mystery Junk. So when her Uncle Earl, owner of the eclectic Wonder Museum, asks her to stay with him in exchange for cataloguing the exhibits, of course she says yes. ![]() Recently divorced and staring down the barrel of moving back in with her parents, Carrot really needs a break. ![]()
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