BUT SOMETHING IS CHANGING BESIDES THE SEASON. ‘A deep, dark, luscious tale that creeps up on you and doesn’t let go . . . this is folklore for the modern age.’ ERIN MORGENSTERN, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Starless Sea CHUCK WENDIG is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Wanderers, The Book of Accidents, Wayward, and more than two dozen other books for adults and young adults. A finalist for the Astounding Award and an alumnus of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, he has also written for comics, games, film and television. He’s known for his popular blog, terribleminds, and books about writing, such as Damn Fine Story. He lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with his family.
‘An epic saga that is at once propulsive horror novel and parable, thriller and cautionary tale.’ LISA UNGER, New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
‘Black River Orchard should come with a warning label: you’ll never bite into another apple without remembering this dark, demented, and genuinely frightening novel.’
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IT’S AUTUMN IN THE TOWN OF HARROW,
JASON REKULAK, author of Hidden Pictures
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Jacket design: Lucy Thorne Image © Stephen Mulcahey/Arcangel Author photograph: Michelle Wendig ISBN: 978 1 529 10113 3
A small town is transformed by dark magic when strange apple trees begin bearing fruit in this new masterpiece of horror from the bestselling author of Wanderers and The Book of Accidents. It’s autumn in the town of Harrow, but something is changing besides the season. Because in the town there is an orchard, and in that orchard grows a new sort of apple: strange and beautiful, with skin so red it’s nearly black. ‘Move over King, Chuck Wendig is the new voice of modern American horror’ Adam Christopher
Take a bite of one of these apples and you will become stronger. More vital. More yourself, you will believe. But soon your appetite for the apples and their peculiar gifts will grow – and become darker. This is what happens when the townsfolk discover the secret of the orchard. Soon it seems that everyone is consumed by an obsession with the magic of the apples . . . and what’s the harm, if it is making them all happier, more confident, more powerful? But now the leaves are falling. The days grow darker. And a stranger has come to town, a stranger who knows Harrow’s secrets. Because it’s harvest time, and the town will soon reap what it has sown.
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