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by Daisy Pearce
Full of creeping dread and suffocating unease, Dark Is When the Devil Comes is an atmospheric and chilling novel from Something in the Walls author Daisy Pearce.
The woods are known as the place to avoid. What goes in, doesn't come out.
Hazel has been gone from her small hometown of Idless in the English countryside for years. Now returned in the wake of a traumatic divorce and crumbling personal life, her simple plans are to lay low at her parents' vacated house, reconnect with her prickly sister Cathy, and slowly get back on her feet.
She's his captive but something has come home with her.
Cathy is surprised when Hazel doesn't show. Their relationship strained from a fallout half a decade ago, she didn't expect them to get back into a sisterly rhythm…though she hadn't counted on Hazel bailing, either.
But something isn't adding up. Other people in town whisper of a threat that can't be shaken. The woods are known for being restless. And Cathy knows the old saying.
"Haunting and propulsive, Dark is When the Devil Comes had me reading late into the night - and jumping at every shadow." ―Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of The Foxglove King and Reliquary
"Disorientating, unsettling, and with an eerie atmosphere that crawls beneath your skin and digs its claws deep, Dark is When the Devil Comes is the perfect blend of horror and thriller. Pearce's taut storytelling and shocking revelations had me breathless, and as chilled as Idless' freezing, haunted woods." ―Francesca May, Sunday Times bestselling author of Wild and Wicked Things
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Daisy Pearce was born in Cornwall but currently lives in Sussex, UK. In 2015 she won the Chindi Authors Short Story Competition. Her short stories have previously been published in One Eyed Grey and performed at the Small Story Cabaret. She has also written about mental health issues for XOJane. She is the author of The Silence and The Missing. Specialist subjects include: ghosts, poltergeists and the perfect red lipstick.
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