We’re delighted to bring our #HalfwaytoHalloween celebration to an end by revealing the gorgeous cover for the paperback edition of The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett!
Annihilation meets The Descent in this dual timeline folk horror debut. If you go down to the woods today, you’ll be sure of a big surprise.
The Dark Between the Trees will be out in paperback this October. Cover by Dominic Forbes.
1643: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern England. Their only hope for survival is to flee into the nearby Moresby Wood… unwise though that may seem. For Moresby Wood is known to be an unnatural place, the realm of witchcraft and shadows, where the devil is said to go walking by moonlight…
Seventeen men enter the wood. Only two are ever seen again, and the stories they tell of what happened make no sense. Stories of shifting landscapes, of trees that appear and disappear at will… and of something else. Something dark. Something hungry.
Today, five women are headed into Moresby Wood to discover, once and for all, what happened to that unfortunate group of soldiers. Led by Dr Alice Christopher, an historian who has devoted her entire academic career to uncovering the secrets of Moresby Wood. Armed with metal detectors, GPS units, mobile phones and the most recent map of the area (which is nearly 50 years old), Dr Christopher’s group enters the wood ready for anything.
Or so they think.
“A memorable, spooky tale.” — The Guardian
“Folk horror of the most classic kind, refreshed for the new century.” — Esquire
“An unsettling and compelling folk horror.” — SFX
“An impressive debut” — The FT
“Surreal and haunting” — Booklist
