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“I suspect if I had owned a border collie, this story would have a very different ending, and I probably would not have been around to type it up. But I had Bongo, and he saved our lives because he is simple and made of nose.”

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

December 23, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

Gotta write this review today because I’m about to start The Hollow Places, and I don’t want my brain to get to confused about it. This book was ooky spooky and I enjoyed it very much. The atmosphere was A+ for me, the MC alone in her evil grandmother’s hoarder house (the book is clear that her being a hoarder is in no way related to her being evil, but the doll room is def related) and a THING in the woods. The THING omg it […]

Filed Under: Horror, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: cozy horror, folk horror, horror, narfna, speculative, t kingfisher, the twisted ones

narfna's CBR15 Review No:158 · Genres: Horror, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: cozy horror, folk horror, horror, narfna, speculative, t kingfisher, the twisted ones ·
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Insidious horror with a deft touch

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

August 19, 2021 by TylerDFC 5 Comments

I twisted myself around like the twisted ones, and I lay flat on the ground like the dead ones. Melissa, or Mouse as everyone calls her, is a freelance editor living in Pittsburgh. When she gets a call from her elderly father asking her to clean out her recently deceased grandmother’s home in North Carolina she goes because that is what her family does when asked: they help. When Mouse arrives at the house in the woods, with her hound Bongo in tow, she learns […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: horror, t kingfisher, the twisted ones, TylerDFC

TylerDFC's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Horror · Tags: horror, t kingfisher, the twisted ones, TylerDFC ·
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