The Hollow Places
Pray they are hungry. Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more one fears them, the stronger they become. (https://www.redwombatstudio.com/)
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The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
After her divorce, Kara moves into the back room of her uncle Earl's roadside Wonder Museum in small-town North Carolina. While patching a hole in a wall behind a stuffed otter, she finds a corridor that should not be there, an old camper, and a willow river that runs nowhere on a map.
Yes. The Hollow Places is widely cited as one of the great cosmic horror novels of recent years. T. Kingfisher draws inspiration from Algernon Blackwood's The Willows and pairs it with a contemporary roadside-museum setting.
No. The Hollow Places is a standalone, separate from T. Kingfisher's Saint of Steel series, A House with Good Bones, and What Moves the Dead. Each of her adult horror novels is independent.
The Hollow Places was written by T. Kingfisher, published in 2020 by Titan Books.
The Hollow Places is 352 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Hollow Places takes most readers 5 to 8 hours to finish.
The Hollow Places is a standalone novel by T. Kingfisher, not part of a series.
The Hollow Places is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.