Full of creeping dread and suffocating unease, Dark Is When the Devil Comes is an atmospheric and chilling novel from Something in the Walls author Daisy Pearce.
The woods are known as the place to avoid. What goes in, doesn’t come out.
Hazel has been gone from her small hometown of Idless in the English countryside for years. Now returned in the wake of a traumatic divorce and crumbling personal life, her simple plans are to lay low at her parents’ vacated house, reconnect with her prickly sister Cathy, and slowly get back on her feet.
She's his captive but something has come home with her.
Cathy is surprised when Hazel doesn’t show. Their relationship strained from a fallout half a decade ago, she didn’t expect them to get back into a sisterly rhythm…though she hadn’t counted on Hazel bailing, either.
But something isn’t adding up. Other people in town whisper of a threat that can’t be shaken. The woods are known for being restless. And Cathy knows the old saying.
If you go looking for trouble, you just might find it.
Praise for DARK IS WHEN THE DEVIL COMES:
"Haunting and propulsive." - Hannah Whitten
"Disorienting, unsettling, and with an eerie atmosphere that crawls beneath your skin." - Francesca May
"Dark and terrifying, an insidious tale." - Philip Fracassi
Genre: Horror
The woods are known as the place to avoid. What goes in, doesn’t come out.
Hazel has been gone from her small hometown of Idless in the English countryside for years. Now returned in the wake of a traumatic divorce and crumbling personal life, her simple plans are to lay low at her parents’ vacated house, reconnect with her prickly sister Cathy, and slowly get back on her feet.
She's his captive but something has come home with her.
Cathy is surprised when Hazel doesn’t show. Their relationship strained from a fallout half a decade ago, she didn’t expect them to get back into a sisterly rhythm…though she hadn’t counted on Hazel bailing, either.
But something isn’t adding up. Other people in town whisper of a threat that can’t be shaken. The woods are known for being restless. And Cathy knows the old saying.
If you go looking for trouble, you just might find it.
Praise for DARK IS WHEN THE DEVIL COMES:
"Haunting and propulsive." - Hannah Whitten
"Disorienting, unsettling, and with an eerie atmosphere that crawls beneath your skin." - Francesca May
"Dark and terrifying, an insidious tale." - Philip Fracassi
Genre: Horror
Praise for this book
"Pearce strikes the perfect balance between the unforgiving tightrope of tension and pacing that's so expected of a thriller, and the creeping, impermeable dread of the best horror." - Megan Bontrager
"Daisy Pearce has taken a horrific abduction story and twisted it into something even more dark and terrifying, an insidious tale that will burrow deeper beneath your skin with each turned page before twining around your heart like blackened string. But DEVIL is also a story about family, and guilt, and the bond between two sisters fractured by a malevolent force, one that won't rest until it's torn them apart." - Philip Fracassi
"Dark is When the Devil Comes is a nail-biting mystery that keeps you guessing and gasping right to the very end! Pearce plumbs the depths of psychological torment for a truly upsetting mindf*ck: You never know what is real and what is just in your head, but always the stomach-churning assurance that things are gonna get worse at the hands of one of horror literature's most chilling psychos. I loved it!" - Bitter Karella
"Disorientating, unsettling, and with an eerie atmosphere that crawls beneath your skin and digs its claws deep, Dark is When the Devil Comes is the perfect blend of horror and thriller. Pearce's taut storytelling and shocking revelations had me breathless, and as chilled as Idless' freezing, haunted woods." - Francesca May
"Haunting and propulsive, Dark is When the Devil Comes had me reading late into the night - and jumping at every shadow." - Hannah Whitten
"Daisy Pearce has taken a horrific abduction story and twisted it into something even more dark and terrifying, an insidious tale that will burrow deeper beneath your skin with each turned page before twining around your heart like blackened string. But DEVIL is also a story about family, and guilt, and the bond between two sisters fractured by a malevolent force, one that won't rest until it's torn them apart." - Philip Fracassi
"Dark is When the Devil Comes is a nail-biting mystery that keeps you guessing and gasping right to the very end! Pearce plumbs the depths of psychological torment for a truly upsetting mindf*ck: You never know what is real and what is just in your head, but always the stomach-churning assurance that things are gonna get worse at the hands of one of horror literature's most chilling psychos. I loved it!" - Bitter Karella
"Disorientating, unsettling, and with an eerie atmosphere that crawls beneath your skin and digs its claws deep, Dark is When the Devil Comes is the perfect blend of horror and thriller. Pearce's taut storytelling and shocking revelations had me breathless, and as chilled as Idless' freezing, haunted woods." - Francesca May
"Haunting and propulsive, Dark is When the Devil Comes had me reading late into the night - and jumping at every shadow." - Hannah Whitten
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