{"product_id":"old-country-by-matthew-query-9781529375459","title":"Old Country","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'It is almost impossible to put down' - Lisa Tuttle, \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'A stonking great slice of American folk horror: modern trauma layered with ancient evil' - \u003ci\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ranch was our dream home. Nestled in the arms of a valley below the Teton mountains, acres upon acres of wilderness, our nearest neighbours over a mile away...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeautiful, serene - isolated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePerfect. Until, naturally, the only neighbours for miles turned out to be crazy and delivered us a dire warning: The valley is cursed. Every season a spirit will manifest itself in increasingly disturbing ways, starting with an eerie light in the pond, and will kill you if you don't light a fire and-\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe made them leave then. Put it to the back of our minds and went about living our new, nearly perfect, lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen spring came, and so did the light...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eWith piercing psychological insight and a profound feeling for the natural world, \u003ci\u003eOld Country\u003c\/i\u003e unspools an unrelenting narrative of terror and suspense.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e*\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'What started as the spookiest of tales on Reddit - I should know, as I love them - sparked a tour-de-force of a novel that perfectly renders the tensions of living in isolation and the unforgiving passage of the seasons' - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Olde Heuvelt, author of \u003ci\u003eHEX\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEcho\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOld Country\u003c\/i\u003e ramps up our day-to-day household rituals to dizzying heights of horror. Domestic bliss has never been more terrifying' - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eClay McLeod Chapman, author of \u003ci\u003eWhisper Down The Lane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'I genuinely found it very hard to put down... Is there such a thing as humanistic horror? If not, I think these guys might have just invented it' - James Brogden, author of \u003ci\u003eHekla's Children\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431766278380,"sku":"9781529375459","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529375459.jpg?v=1774557228","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/old-country-by-matthew-query-9781529375459","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}