With the help of neighbor Foxy, a brassy, 60-something ex-hippie who lives across the road, Mouse re-enters the realm of the "twisted ones" to try to rescue whoever is trapped there. Bongo goes missing, and reappears days later with a message begging for help. When her dog, Bongo, leads her into the realm of the "twisted ones", Mouse barely escapes with her sanity intact. Mouse also finds Frederick's version of "The Green Book", typed from memory.Īlready unnerved by the isolation of the house in the woods, Mouse is terrified to discover twisted versions of deer roaming about at night. Mouse discovers his diary, in which he documents his obsession with something called "The Green Book", his contentious relationship with his wife, and his own descent into madness. Mouse's step-grandfather, Frederick Cotgrave, died some years earlier.
Her cruel and nasty grandmother has died, and Mouse travels to North Carolina to clear out her home.
Vernon drew inspiration for The Twisted Ones from Arthur Machen’s short horror story “ The White People” and the novel is a contemporary take on the story.
It was published in the United States and United Kingdom in 2019 through Gallery/Saga Press. The Twisted Ones is a 2019 horror novel written by Ursula Vernon, under the penname of T. Print (hardback, paperback), ebook, audiobookĩ78-1534429574 First edition US hardcover For the 2017 Five Nights at Freddy novel, see Five Nights At Freddy's: The Twisted Ones. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones is a gripping, terrifying tale bound to keep you up all night-from both fear and anticipation of what happens next.This article is about the 2019 horror novel. And if she doesn't face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.įrom Hugo Award–winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. That would be horrific enough, but there's more-Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather's journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants.until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.Īlone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors-because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they're looking for you. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. After all, how bad could it be?Īnswer: pretty bad.
When Mouse's dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother's home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show.
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