Kingfisher is the not-at-all-secret pseudonym of Nebula and Hugo-winning author, graphic novelist, and illustrator, Ursula Vernon. The sheer volume of found manuscript begs patience of its reader by the middle of the novel, but once things start going bump in the night at the house, the thrills leave you wanting more. The Green Book is a book within a journal within the novel. In a genre where film narratives are full of found footage, The Twisted Ones contains a generous helping of found manuscript. To protect himself from them, he repeats a phrase from something called the Green Book, which he does his best to reconstruct from memory. Fredrick had been an amiable Welshman with a strange tolerance for his wife’s verbal hostility, and a stranger still knowledge of mythical woodland creatures. While doing the tedious work of clearing out room after room of hoarded junk, Mouse finds her step-grandfather Fredrick’s journal. To make matters worse, Mouse discovers that her grandmother had been a hoarder. Having had no love for her unkind grandmother, she has no emotional connection to the house. Mouse and her coonhound Bongo drive to her grandmother’s house in an overgrown patch of rural North Carolina. She is humble to the point of apologizing for not starting out the story perfectly enough, and appropriately goes by the nickname “Mouse.” When her ailing father asks her to clean out the home of her recently deceased grandmother so that it can be sold, Mouse agrees in order to spare him the stress. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones is a gripping, terrifying tale bound to keep you up all night-from both fear and anticipation of what happens next.The Twisted Ones is a Southern gothic tale told in the folksy, rambling charm of its narrator, Melissa. And if she doesn’t face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.įrom Hugo Award–winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more-Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.Īlone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors-because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish.
After all, how bad could it be?Īnswer: pretty bad. When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show.
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