Old Country

Harrison Query, Matthew Query

ISBN 10: 1529375436 / ISBN 13: 9781529375435

Published by Hodder and Stoughton, GB, 2022

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'It is almost impossible to put down' - Lisa Tuttle, GUARDIAN'A stonking great slice of American folk horror: modern trauma layered with ancient evil' - DAILY MAILThe ranch was our dream home. Nestled in the arms of a valley below the Teton mountains, acres upon acres of wilderness, our nearest neighbours over a mile away . . .Beautiful, serene - isolated. Perfect. Until, naturally, the only neighbours for miles turned out to be crazy and delivered us a dire warning: The valley is cursed. Every season a spirit will manifest itself in increasingly disturbing ways, starting with an eerie light in the pond, and will kill you if you don't light a fire and-We made them leave then. Put it to the back of our minds and went about living our new, nearly perfect, lives.Then spring came, and so did the light . . .With piercing psychological insight and a profound feeling for the natural world, Old Country unspools an unrelenting narrative of terror and suspense.*****'What started as the spookiest of tales on Reddit - I should know, as I love them - sparked a tour-de-force of a novel that perfectly renders the tensions of living in isolation and the unforgiving passage of the seasons' - Thomas Olde Heuvelt, author of HEX and Echo'Old Country ramps up our day-to-day household rituals to dizzying heights of horror. Domestic bliss has never been more terrifying' - Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Whisper Down The Lane'I genuinely found it very hard to put down . . . Is there such a thing as humanistic horror? If not, I think these guys might have just invented it' - James Brogden, author of Hekla's Children.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Old Country
• Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, GB
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529375436
• ISBN 13: 9781529375435
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 580 grams

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Synopsis

Harry, un exmarine, y su mujer, Sasha, han dejado su ajetreada vida en la ciudad para marcharse a vivir de la tierra en un rancho en las montañas de Idaho. Su maravilloso nuevo hogar se halla alrededor de quince hectáreas de campo, álamos y bosques de pinos en el valle de Teton. Aunque sus amigos no comprenden este extraño cambio de vida, Harry y Sasha no pueden estar más emocionados del futuro que están construyendo juntos y sin ayuda de nadie.

O al menos hasta que sus vecinos les advierten del espíritu que habita el valle. Uno que, dependiendo de la estación, acecha y cambia de aspecto. Aunque al principio crean que no se trata más que de una superstición local, conforme vayan pasando las estaciones, todo se volverá cada vez más peligroso y siniestro.