A STORY THAT COMBINES THE BEST MYSTERY THRILLERS BY STEPHEN KING AND THE STRANGER THINGS SERIES. NATIONAL BESTSELLER. FINALIST OF THE PRESTIGIOUS LITERARY AWARD LOCUS AWARD. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 ACCORDING TO THE NEW YOR K PUBLIC LIBRARY AND LIBRARY JOURNAL.Once obsessed by numbers, maniac Edmund Rees failed a mission he considered sacred - to kill 99 girls in Ramble Rocks Park, a field of rocks. He was executed in the electric chair, and something much darker, hungry and sinister took up residence among the mysterious boulders... Once, as a child, Nate lived in a farmhouse near Ramble Rocks with his cruel father. He didn’t tell anyone what happened there... Once upon a time, Maddie, as a little girl, saw something in her bedroom that she shouldn’t have seen. She tries to resurrect a forgotten childhood trauma by creating disturbing sculptures...Now Nate and Maddie Graves are married and happy. Together with their son Oliver, they move into Nate's childhood home. And what happened once is repeated again. This time with Oliver, when he befriends a strange teenager. A teenager full of very dark secrets... “Very well written. Very well translated. Compelling, not letting go, forcing you to solve riddles as you read. And a very scary story. Like". – Alexander Klyukvin, actor who voiced the book “Horror, scope, dynamics, unexpected turns - I haven’t experienced all this so violently since the days of King’s The Shining.” – Stephen Graham Jones “Move over, King,” Wendig is now the new voice of American horror! This is a masterpiece, and Chuck has only just begun.” – Adam Christopher, author of Dark on the Edge of Town, the official novelization of the world of Stranger Things “In the tradition of King’s Dark Tower series, Wendig showed cosmic horror through the lens of the everyday, tying the grandiose to the ordinary. The result is a novel in which you wander and disappear.” – John Langan “Wendig's book transported me back to the golden age of horror, to the novels I loved as a boy. This gritty and intimate, layered and uplifting book is such a joy to sink into.” – Dan Chaon “An unforgettable charge of horror of the highest standard, stirring up the most secret fears. It penetrates to the bones while warming the heart.” – Alex Segura “Only Wendig can make a mixture of horror, fantasy and science fiction a jet thriller that is funny and scary, smart and crazy, tender and tough at the same time. Magical experience." – Alma Katsu “An outstanding work, shining with imagination and humanity - and giving a ray of hope to a world mired in cruelty.” – Christopher Golden “A powerful, impressive novel, a book with a stunning mind and a generous, hotly beating heart. Personal and epic. Human and magical. A leap across worlds and times that has a deep emotional impact.” – Library Journal