{"product_id":"a-child-alone-with-strangers-9781945863929","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Talos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945863929\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs","brand":"Philip Fracassi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51495095730357,"sku":"9781945863929","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5da4758c-4330-4f05-ac23-b2f6adbc7863.jpg?v=1754974030","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-child-alone-with-strangers-9781945863929","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}