Boy in the Box
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
“This is a harrowing and intense psychological horror novel for fans of Peter Straub, Jac Jemc, and Ania Ahlborn." — Booklist
Ten years ago a mysterious and tragic hunting accident deep in the Adirondack Mountains left a boy buried in a storied piece of land known as Coombs’ Gulch and four friends with a terrible secret.
Now, Jonathan Hollis and brothers Michael and Conner Braddick must return to the place that changed their lives forever in order to keep their secret buried. What they don’t realize is that they are walking into a trap — one set decades earlier by a supernatural being who is not confined by time or place: a demon that demands a sacrifice.
FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Desolate landscapes and guilt-laden consciences pervade this fraught horror novel from Fitch (Dirty Water). Ten years ago, Jonathan Hollis traveled with three friends to the Adirondack Mountains for a bachelor party weekend of drinking and hunting. The inebriated men mistook a young boy wandering the wilderness for a deer and killed him. Realizing their mistake, they locked the body in a storage trunk and buried him in the woods, but the weight of their shame caused deep rifts and led to the suicide of the man who pulled the trigger. Now developers are razing the burial spot and the threat of exposure sends Jonathan and his surviving friends, Michael and Conner, back to the woods to move the body before their secret can be unearthed. Returning to the bleak, remote terrain brings to light the truth of the boy's identity and his nightmarish reason for being in the woods in the first place. Though the characters suffer from a lack of nuance, the deeply unnerving imagery ("The skin seemed to fall away from the bone like a carcass left in water") will keep horror lovers hooked. Fitch spins isolation and paranoia into a successfully frightening yarn.
