{"product_id":"a-child-alone-with-strangers","title":"A Child Alone with Strangers","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Fracassi's novel hits me like a cross between McCammon and '80s King. Might be one of them summer blockbusters readers love.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eLaird Barron, author of \u003ci\u003eWorse Angels\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Child Alone with Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e starts out as a slow burn procedural with supernatural elements and inexorably cranks itself into a pulse-pounding symphony of eldritch horrors and all-too-human violence. Philip Fracassi is the best sort of horror writer--one who is unafraid to hunt for light in even the darkest places.\" --\u003cb\u003eShaun Hamill, author of \u003ci\u003eA Cosmology of Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by miles of forest, he finds himself connecting with a strange force living in the woods--using that bond to wreak havoc against his captors. Unknown to the boy, however, is that this ancient being has its own reasons for wanting the interlopers gone--there is something hidden beneath the house, tucked away in the dark, damp root cellar . . . waiting for its return.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1945863927\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781945863929\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Fracassi, Philip\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Talos\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Talos","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Oct 2025)","offer_id":46080728858821,"sku":"9781945863929","price":17.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781945863929.jpg?v=1776039599","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/a-child-alone-with-strangers","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}