An epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by an ancient evil...
Nellie Gardner is looking for a way out of an abusive marriage when she learns that her long-lost grandfather, August Redfern, has willed her his turpentine estate. She throws everything she can think of in a bag and flees to Georgia with her eleven-year-old son, Max, in tow.
It turns out that the estate is a decrepit farmhouse on a thousand acres of old pine forest, but Nellie is thrilled about the chance for a fresh start for her and Max, and a chance for the happy home she never had. So it takes her a while to notice the strange scratching in the walls, the faint whispering at night, how the forest is eerily quiet. But Max sees what his mother can't: They're no safer here than they were in South Carolina. In fact, things might even be worse. There's something wrong with Redfern Hill. Something lurks beneath the soil, ancient and hungry, with the power to corrupt hearts and destroy souls. It is the true legacy of Redfern Hill: a kingdom of grief and death, to which Nellie's own blood has granted her the key.
From the author of The Boatman's Daughter, The Hollow Kind is a jaw-dropping novel about legacy and the horrors that hide in the dark corners of family history. Andy Davidson's gorgeous, Gothic fable tracing the spectacular fall of the Redfern family will haunt you long after you turn the final page.
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Praise for The hollow kind
"Andy Davidson is quickly establishing himself as the newest master of Southern Gothic horror. The Hollow Kind seeps into your subconscious and waits for you in your nightmares.”
— S.A. Cosby
Bestselling Author of Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland
"Whether you call it historical horror, folk horror, or Southern Gothic, Andy Davidson's The Hollow Kind is as beautifully written as it is chilling. The combination of dual timelines with a little-explored piece of America's past truly sets this book apart. Every page reverberates with inescapable dread.”
— Alma Katsu
Award-Winning Author of The Hunger and The Fervor
"If there's a writer who understands the relationship of horror and trauma to a particular place, that writer is Andy Davidson. The Hollow Kind is a perfectly realized, vivid novel about a haunted and haunting place, the malevolent thing that lives there, and the people sucked into it for generations."
— Brian Evenson
Author of The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
"The Hollow Kind is a gloriously wild, twisted family saga with buckets of body horror and is going to mess you up good."
— Paul Tremblay
Bestselling Author of Survivor Song
"A deep, dark story of family secrets and inherited horrors, Andy Davidson's The Hollow Kind is as gripping and twisted as old tree roots--you can practically smell the creosote and longleaf pine. This one kept me up, turning pages long into the night."
— T. Kingfisher
Author of What Moves the Dead
"…A lovely, lyrical, terrifying epic. One of the best horror novels I’ve read in years."
— Shaun Hamill
Author of A Cosmology of Monsters
"…A terrifying family tree of southern gothic genealogies -- think…the Hatfields and McCoys as penned by Stephen King. Every page is lush with enough creeping Cormac McCarthy kudzu to clot your heart and leave you begging for just one more sentence."
— Clay McCleod Chapman
Author of Ghost Eaters
