Stefan Kiesbye

Four young friends move from childhood to young adulthood in superstitious Hemmersmoor, where they accidentally come face to face with the darkest secret of the village in this new horror novel from the author of Next Door Lived a Girl. Original. 35,000 first printing.

A Novel

Your House is on Fire, Your Children All Gone

Sandrin

After reading this I suspect I will need therapy much like the author himself.

The women/girls in this book were all jealous and vindictive (interestingly almost only towards each other...) while the men/boys a bunch of lusty degenerates with no personality traits other than being creepy and gross. Felt like there were only two types of characters who weren't even fleshed out enough to have their own identities.

The story wasn't scary, nor creepy just plain disgusting.

Shirley Jackson meets The Twilight Zone in this riveting novel of supernatural horror—for readers who loved Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children A village on the Devil‘s Moor: a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition. There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of revenants, the old mill no one dares to mention. This is where four young friends come of age—in an atmosphere thick with fear and suspicion. Their innocent games soon bring them face-to-face with the village‘s darkest secrets in this eerily dispassionate, astonishingly assured novel, infused with the spirit of the Brothers Grimm and evocative of Stephen King‘s classic short story “Children of the Corn” and the films The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke and Village of the Damned by Wolf Rilla.

Your House is on Fire, Your Children All Gone A Novel

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