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In the Night Wood
Dale Bailey
A FOREST. A BOOK. A MISSING GIRL.Charles Hayden has been fascinated by a strange Victorian fairy tale, In the Night Wood, since he was a child. When his wife, Erin – a descendant of the author – inherits her ancestor’s house, the couple decide to make it their home. Still mourning the recent death of their daughter, they leave America behind, seeking a new beginning in the English countryside.But Hollow House, filled with secrets and surrounded by an ancient oak forest, is a place where the past seems very much alive. Isolated among the trees, Charles and Erin begin to feel themselves haunted – by echoes of the stories in the house’s library, by sightings of their daughter, and by something else, as old and dark as the forest around them.A compelling and atmospheric gothic thriller, In the Night Wood reveals the chilling power of myth and memory.
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
Copyright © Dale Bailey 2018
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Source ISBN: 9780008329167
Ebook Edition © September 2018 ISBN: 9780008329174
Version: 2018-11-23
Dedication (#uf4327829-3f75-5443-a00e-074d320d2409)
For Pam and Sally
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The specific mode of existence of man implies the need of his learning what happens, and above all what can happen, in the world around him and in his own interior world. That it is a matter of the structure of the human condition is shown, inter alia, by the existential necessity of listening to stories and fairy tales, even in the most tragic of circumstances.
— MIRCEA ELIADE, THE FORBIDDEN FOREST
Gretel began to cry and said,
“How are we to get out of the forest now?”
— THE BROTHERS GRIMM, “HANSEL AND GRETEL”
Contents
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Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Once Upon a Time … (#ube791df6-9d5a-5f24-92d2-73d0ddd281e4)
Prelude (#u2fdc3665-7f13-510b-a256-52fb3d7fa543)
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