A moody, blood-chilling, mystical novel by a budding English writer. The book quickly became a bestseller and was rightfully called “a living classic of Gothic”—and received approval from Stephen King himself.
Looney is a strange empty place on the coast of England. On a pilgrimage to the local shrine together with her family, a fifteen-year-old teenager didn’t even suspect what she would have to face in this dreadful, dull corner of the world. Terrifying scarecrows, terrible rituals, unusual behavior of the locals who hide a terrible secret, a sudden landslide, and the body of a baby found—fallen out of an old house at the foot of the cliffs…