Of course this leads to the terrifying ordeal that unfolds later, but it was a godsend at the time! Kara assists her uncle with running the Glory to God Museum of Natural Wonders, Curiosities and Taxidermy, and eventually ends up in charge while he’s recovering from surgery. Our protagonist is the down-on-her-luck, newly divorced Kara who is nearly forced to confront the mundane horror of moving back in with her parents before gladly taking up her genial Uncle Earl’s offers of a spare room at his museum. This time around, the inspiration is the 1907 novella by Algernon Blackwood, The Willows, which was regarded by HP Lovecraft as the greatest supernatural story ever written and its chilling description of “ the frontier of another world, an alien world, a world tenanted by willows only and the souls of willows” strongly influences this story.
After reading her fantastic first horror novel, The Twisted Ones, which was inspired by Arthur Machen’s 1904 horror short story The White People, I fervently hoped she would return to that well and was delighted to discover she had a new horror release due out later in 2020.
The Hollow Places is the latest remixed horror offering by Ursula Vernon, noted children’s author and graphic novelist who writes as T.
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