The Thing in the Woods

The Thing in the Woods
Author: Steven Brezenoff
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2009
Genre: Camping
ISBN: 1434207951

Scary stories for striving readers.

The Thing in the Woods

The Thing in the Woods
Author: Margery Williams
Publisher: Miasto Książek
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2024-09-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Deep within an old, untamed forest, something ancient and powerful lies dormant, waiting for the right moment to emerge. In Margery Williams’ haunting tale, The Thing in the Woods, a curious boy named Tom stumbles upon a hidden world that thrives on dark magic and forgotten legends. As he delves deeper into the woods, the line between the natural and the supernatural begins to blur. Strange forces seem to watch his every move, and the very air feels alive with menace. When the creature finally awakens, Tom must face his deepest fears to survive the horrors that stir in the heart of the wilderness. This eerie and atmospheric novel is a masterful blend of suspense, adventure, and the chilling power of the unknown.

The Thing in the Woods

The Thing in the Woods
Author: Gary Frank
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2022-06-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In the woods of the Luke Miller State Park, north of Eastham, NJ, an urban legend lives in peace with nature. You don’t bother it and it will leave you alone. A simple rule to live by and one the park rangers enforce. Unfortunately, Rick and Max don’t know this natural law, and when they come face to face with an immense monster, they react, and in a moment of panic, inadvertently shoot it. Their actions set off a series of events that leaves Rich, his wife, Kara, Max, and the others fighting for their lives against a force that cannot be stopped. As things spiral out of control, Rich wonders if there’s any way to escape the thing in the woods.

The Thing in the Woods

The Thing in the Woods
Author: M. Anders
Publisher: Bone Diggers Press
Total Pages: 37
Release:
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

Something strange is happening in Deadwood Hollow, and it may have something to do with the first rule Theo learned while visiting his grandparents: Never go into the woods.

The Thing in the Woods

The Thing in the Woods
Author: Matthew W Quinn
Publisher: Matthew W Quinn
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2020-04-27
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

Seventeen-year-old James Daly thought moving from Atlanta to small-town Edington senior year would kill him, but he didn't mean it literally. But his father bought a bigger house to go with a promotion at his law firm, only to lose his job when the housing bubble popped. Now James has to work at the Edington Best Buy to help pay the mortgage they're underwater on. He can't wait until he turns eighteen and can leave Edington behind forever. But when a local boy challenges him to an ATV race near a tree farm most people avoid, things get much worse. James' rival is slaughtered by a tentacled horror emerging from a nearby pond.The monstrosity has been worshiped by a secretive coven since before the Civil War, and its devotees don't take kindly to their secrets being threatened.Now with the aid of Amber Webb, a local girl he doesn't like liking, and a renegade cult member, James must fight to avoid ending up bound to a picnic table and offered up to a monster. He must do battle with both the local cultists and their predatory master, THE THING IN THE WOODS. ★★★★★ Quinn writes effectively and convincingly in recreating a new take on H.P. Lovecraft and the genre. I am not much of a fan of horror, but this work kept the right mix of tempo, detail, suspense, interesting characters, and plot development to keep me engaged. The creepiest horror stories are the ones that take place in setting just like where you live... - John Allred ★★★★★ This is Not Mayberry - This tale of a Lovecraftian cult in the backwoods of a rural Georgia town is both suspenseful and frightening. The creature being worshiped by the cult is an ancient, multi-tentacled monster that lives in a lake in the middle of an isolated tree farm. When high school student James Daly stumbles upon the cult and watches the monster devour a rival classmate, things go downhill fast. Matthew W. Quinn blends together small-town politics, Civil War legends, and more profanity than Lovecraft himself would be comfortable with. This is not Mayberry. Highly recommended for fans of eldritch horror in a realistic, modern-day setting. - Darrell Grizzle ★★★★★ Good Read - A fast-paced horror novel with a likeable hero, a monster with a backstory, and a hidden commentary on social issues in southern small towns. - Alex S. Grab your copy today! Although this book stands alone as a creature feature, it begins The Long War series. The next book is THE ATLANTA INCURSION. Fans of STRANGER THINGS and IT will love this tale of small-town terror.

What She Found in the Woods

What She Found in the Woods
Author: Josephine Angelini
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1728216281

Overmedicated and shipped off to live with her grandparents, Magda just wants to forget what happened at her old school. Wandering the woods, she discovers a wild boy who sees the real her. But there's also a nightmare lurking—and it's coming for her... Perfect for fans of books featuring unreliable narrators and mental health books for teens! This is Magda's last chance. Recovering from a scandal at her elite New York City private school that threw life into a tailspin, she's shipped off to live with her grandparents in the Pacific Northwest for the summer. Medicated and uninspired, Magda spends her days in a fog wandering the forest behind the house. But then she stumbles upon Bo. He's wild and free, and he can see the real her. Magda starts believing she might be able to move on from her past and feel something again. But there's more to this sleepy town than she thought. And what Magda finds in the woods near Bo's forest home is the beginning of a whole new nightmare...

The Nearest Thing to Life

The Nearest Thing to Life
Author: James Wood
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611687438

In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood, noted contributor to the New Yorker, has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivion. The act of reading is understood here as the most sacred and personal of activities, and there are brilliant discussions of individual works - among others, Chekhov's story "The Kiss," W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants, and Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower. Wood reveals his own intimate relationship with the written word: we see the development of a provincial boy growing up in a charged Christian environment, the secret joy of his childhood reading, the links he makes between reading and blasphemy, or between literature and music. The final section discusses fiction in the context of exile and homelessness. The Nearest Thing to LifeÊis not simply a brief, tightly argued book by a man commonly regarded as our finest living critic - it is also an exhilarating personal account that reflects on, and embodies, the fruitful conspiracy between reader and writer (and critic), and asks us to reconsider everything that is at stake when we read and write fiction.

Little Black Book of Stories

Little Black Book of Stories
Author: A. S. Byatt
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307426637

An unforgettable collection of fairy tales for grownups—from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession. • “A delight.... provoking and alarming, richly yet tautly rendered.... [She] has the sheer narrative skill to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and make your pulse race.” —The New York Times Book Review Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for adults. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form. Little Black Book of Stories offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women, childhood friends reunited by chance, venture into a dark forest where once, many years before, they saw–or thought they saw–something unspeakable. Another woman, recently bereaved, finds herself slowly but surely turning into stone. A coolly rational ob-gyn has his world pushed off-axis by a waiflike art student with her own ideas about the uses of the body. Spellbinding, witty, lovely, terrifying, the Little Black Book of Stories is Byatt at the height of her craft.

Where the Woods End

Where the Woods End
Author: Charlotte Salter
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0735229252

In a forest filled with treacherous beasts, the thing to be most afraid of is closer than you think in this middle grade horror fantasy. Kestrel, a young huntress, lives in a seemingly endless forest crawling with dangerous beasts. But the most dangerous beasts of all are the Grabbers--beings that are born when you are and stalk you throughout your life, waiting for the perfect moment to snatch and eat you. No one has ever defeated their Grabber once attacked, and those that die from accidents or other creatures are considered "lucky." Kestrel has been tasked by her mother, a powerful and controlling spell-caster, to hunt down the Grabbers in an effort to protect their village in the forest. Accompanied by Pippit, a hilariously bloodthirsty weasel, she hones her skills as she searches for a way out of the forest--and away from the judgmental villagers who despise her. But her own Grabber is creeping ever closer, and nothing in this forest is what it seems...including her mother's true motivations.