560 pages | Paperback

A new masterpiece of literary horror by theNew York Timesbestselling author of Wanderers about a family returning to their hometownand to the dark past that haunts them still

Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive fatherand has never told his family what happened there.

Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldnt haveand is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures.

Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania.

Now, Nate and Maddie Graves are married, and they have moved back to their hometown with their son, Oliver.

And now what happened long ago is happening againand it is happening to Oliver. He meets a strange boy who becomes his best friend, a boy with secrets of his own and a taste for dark magic.

This dark magic puts them at the heart of a battle of good versus evil and a fight for the soul of the familyand perhaps for all of the world. But the Graves family has a secret weapon in this battle: their love for one another.