Book description
From Bram Stoker Award -winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood friends who miraculously survive the night everyone in their suburban hometown turned into ghosts-perfect for fans of Yellowjackets.
The Velkwood Vicinity was the topic of occult theorists, tabloid one-hour documentaries, and even some pseudo-scientific investigationsā¦
Why read it?
1 author picked The Haunting of Velkwood as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love it when a story taps into my dream life when the author imagines a landscape that tickles my subconscious. Since the experience is so deeply personal, it obviously cannot be planned or market-tested, which makes it all the more thrilling when it happens.
That was my experience reading this book. As a boy, I often dreamed about my small town turning into a neighborhood full of ghosts overnight (Donāt ask me why. I was a strange child). This happens to be the exact premise of Velkwood. In Kisteās narrative, a living woman must enter this literal ghostā¦
From Matthew's list on Edgar Allan Poe & the gothic ghost story.
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