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In this contemporary fantasy, the grieving biographer of a Victorian fantasist finds himself slipping inexorably into the supernatural world that consumed his subject. American Charles Hayden came to England to forget the past. Failed father, failed husband, and failed scholar, Charles hopes to put his life back together with a biography of Caedmon Hollow, the long-dead author of a legendary Victorian children's book, In the Night Wood. But soon after settling into Hollow's remote Yorkshire home, Charles learns that the past isn't dead. In the neighboring village, Charles meets a woman he might have loved, a child who could have been his own lost daughter, and the ghost of a self he thought he'd put behind him. And in the primeval forest surrounding Caedmon Hollow's ancestral home, an ancient power is stirring.
About the Author
DALE BAILEY is the author of eight books, including In the Night Wood, The End of the End of Everything, and The Subterranean Season. His story "Death and Suffrage" was adapted for Showtime's Masters of Horror television series. His fiction has won the Shirley Jackson Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and has been a finalist for the World Fantasy, Nebula, Bram Stoker, Locus, and Manly Wade Wellman awards. His work has been reprinted frequently in best-of-the-year anthologies, including The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, and The Best Horror of the Year, among others. He lives in North Carolina with his family.
