American folk-horror
Stories about grief, memory, and the things a place will bury to keep itself alive — set on river bluffs, in coal hollows, on cold lakes, and at the frozen edges of the map.
The flagship series — now complete
Six books. One girl who inherits the family duty of keeping the old American monsters bound — a winged thing in a river bluff, a drowned grief in a coal hollow, a hunger woven into every true name in the world. A story about the cost of carrying something alone, and the discovery that you never have to.
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Some things are only sleeping.
Sixteen-year-old Wren Ouatoga is sent to her late grandfather's house in Alton, Illinois — and to the centuries-old mural of the Piasa Bird on the Mississippi bluffs, which has begun, very quietly, to bleed real.
No one keeps alone.
The finale. The Society's archive of every true name is nearly complete — and they hold the one person Wren can't lose at the heart of it. The reckoning the whole series has been building toward.
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A different woods, a different dark. KNOCK opens a new sequence of Pacific-Northwest folk-horror — published under the Shawn Fox name.
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S.D. Fox writes from southern Illinois, a short drive from the Great River Road and the limestone bluffs that started it all. The work draws on American folk legend and the real history of the places it visits.
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