Oh my word.
Wonderful news.
New David Barnett coming this October.
@canelobooks.bsky.social 😍 #TwistedPike #WitheredHill
A closed community is at once a shelter, a mystery and a trap.
#12daysofyule
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#thedevilssound
Down by the river, where the willow buds float, marking the arrival of spring. Down by the river, where the corpse petals rot, clinging to your skin like a curse.
#12daysofyule
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#thedevilssound
Bury your regrets. Cover them with dry earth, and burn herbs over the mound. Leave this place as you found it, and return to the sunlight.
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
Husk by husk, crumb by crumb, pinch by pinch. The trail to follow was laid years before, and left for you and you alone. To another’s eye, it was never there.
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
The ability to survive, and even thrive, in a new environment, is immediately tied to one’s facility for adaptation and rapid reevaluation in the face of a changed worldview.
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#witheredhill
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The message that underscores all encounters with the land, with the older ways, is that there are rules you have forgotten. The consequences of which will exact a price.
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#thedevilssound
Inside the deep midwinter, when the days are narrow, we see our footprints, piled one on top of the other. We have travelled these roads before.
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We begin, appropriately enough, at the end. Where everything is revealed and some things are put to rest.
#12daysofYule
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Image of the book cover with a graphic design of tree branches woven into the shape of a rabbit head, picked out in grey on a sheer black background
My #RecentRead*
#WitheredHill by @davidmbarnett.bsky.social
*books I’ve really liked/loved
Reading folk horror #WitheredHill and it's very good.
I'm always looking for something fresh within the folk horror genre so I've started Withered Hill by @davidmbarnett.bsky.social after which I'll jump into Scuttlers Cove. (which is published today.)
I'm loving the weirdness so far.
#WitheredHill #ScuttlersCove #FolkHorror @canelobooks.bsky.social
I find English folk horror to be hit and miss. #WitheredHill by @davidmbarnett.bsky.social is most definitely a hit. It’s delightfully creepy and tough to put down.
If you fancy a crash course in dark and unsettling British folklore then #WitheredHill is the book for you!!