The Hollow Places
A Novel
Readers rate it 3.8 (334 on Hardcover)
352 pages · Released Oct 6, 2020 · Gallery Books
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The Hollow Places is a psychological horror novel with graphic body horror, creature violence, and sustained dread—not appropriate for younger teens. The protagonist faces existential terror and body-horror imagery in alternate dimensions, with significant deaths and injuries described. While the main character shows resilience and emotional growth, the horror elements are intense and the book is marketed for adult audiences; it's better suited for mature teens and up.
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From the publisher
A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel from the author of the “innovative, unexpected, and absolutely chilling” (Mira Grant, Nebula Award–winning author) The Twisted Ones. Pray they are hungry. Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker... A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel from the author of the “innovative, unexpected, and absolutely chilling” (Mira Grant, Nebula Award–winning author) The Twisted Ones. Pray they are hungry. Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more one fears them, the stronger they become. With her distinctive “delightfully fresh and subversive” (SF Bluestocking) prose and the strange, sinister wonder found in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, The Hollow Places is another compelling and white-knuckled horror novel that you won’t be able to put down.
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- Fiction
- Loveable Characters
- Weak Character Development
- Diverse Characters
- Plot driven
- A mix driven
- Not Diverse Characters
- Strong Character Development
- Unloveable Characters
- dark
- funny
- tense
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ISBN 9781534451124 · Gallery Books