Kara discovers a hole in the wall of her uncle's museum that leads to a terrifying alternate dimension full of monsters and dangers. With her friend Simon, they navigate through different worlds while trying to find their way back home, encountering cosmic horror, body horror, and a mix of humor and weirdness along the way. The story combines elements of horror, supernatural, and humor, providing a unique and creepy reading experience with well-developed characters and a detailed world-building.
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Triggers include body horror, intense psychological distress, and themes of existential dread.
From The Publisher:
A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle's house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel from the author of the "innovative, unexpected, and absolutely chilling" (Mira Grant, Nebula Award-winning author) The Twisted Ones.
Pray they are hungry.
Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she's discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle's house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area-only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more one fears them, the stronger they become.
With her distinctive "delightfully fresh and subversive" (SF Bluestocking) prose and the strange, sinister wonder found in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, The Hollow Places is another compelling and white-knuckled horror novel that you won't be able to put down.
Ratings (68)
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Loved It (25) | |
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It Was OK (5) | |
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Reader Stats (218):
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Want To Read (122) | |
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Okay, I love this book! This book is a perfect blend of my faves: alternate dimension, horror elements, likeable characters. The best way to describe this book, is imagine, you go into a closet and you enter a different dimension. At first, everything is all fun and games, until it not; things get real and dark, and you just want to go home.
What can you read after
The Hollow Places?
About the Author:
T. Kingfisher, also known as Ursula Vernon, is the author and illustrator of many projects, including the webcomic "Digger," which won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story and the Mythopoeic Award. Her novelette "The Tomato Thief" won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette, and her short story "Jackalope Wives" won the Nebula Award for Best Story. She is also the author of the bestselling Dragonbreath, and the Hamster Princess series of books for children. Find her online at RedWombatStudio.com.
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