Book description
Shortlisted for the 2022 British Fantasy Horror Award.
In a lonely village in the Peak District, during the onset of a once-in-a-lifetime snow storm, Constable Ellie Cheetham finds a body. The man, a local ne'er-do-well, appears to have died in a tragic accident: he drank too much and froze to…
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2 authors picked The Hollows as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is Daniel Church’s first novel, and he grabbed me from the first page.
The Hollows is isolated, and the book is depicting its raw bleakness in the dead of winter. I could almost feel the biting cold, the snow falling, soaking me through. Once I had encountered the family at the heart of this story, the true essence of the book really came alive for me.
This is real horror because for me, certainly, I could imagine it happening. All of it. The murders, the increasing fear of the local people, the menace of the place itself, and the…
From Catherine's list on Catherine Cavendish's favorite books to make you love haunted and sinister places.
Daniel Church is a new name in fiction but if The Hollows is anything to go by, we will be hearing much more from him in the future. This story is part horror and part crime – taking the best of both traditions and mixing them together in an unholy and mesmerizing brew. Someone needs to make a miniseries of this!
Set in the freezing cold of a Peak District winter, the author paints the scene so vividly we can actually feel the intense cold penetrating our bones and every fibre of our being as he takes us deep into…
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