The Darkness of Thorne House

<p><strong>Nightmare Realm Artwork Edition.</strong></p><p>Lovecraftian horror meets early Stephen King meets the stunning mind of Shirley Jackson an immensely talented writer with a vivid macabre imagination. Ryan Holden brings this gothic horror noir featuring magical and fantastical themes in the first book of <em>The Maplewood Horrors. </em><strong>Perfect for readers of Stephen King's IT or Pet Cemetery. Paul Tremblay Clive Barker and </strong><em><strong>The Haunting of Hill House</strong></em><strong> -</strong> <em>The Darkness of Thorne House</em> is a brutal yet lyrical horror novel about inherited trauma possessed memory and the price of burying witches rather than listening to them. - a chilling saga of witchcraft legacy and the shadows that never die.</p><p>A house that breathes. A town built on secrets. A curse that never died. Maplewood has always whispered. In 1990 Joseph Thinkle was the first to hear it. He was a lonely old man who vanished into the woods possessed by something ancient and wrong. By morning the town had turned on its witches. Blood soaked the snow. And a forbidden ritual bound a living grimoire beneath Thorne House-a place with too many windows and a hunger for grief. Thirty years later it's waking up again.</p><p>Emily Rickman returns to Maplewood with no memory of her childhood no clue of the power she once buried. Her teenage twins Nicholas and Jenny are changing-haunted by voices drawn to the house caught in the early stages of their frightening and mystifying transformation. Ascension. The past isn't finished. And Thorne House is hungry.</p><p>As the veil between timelines collapses a curse forged in fear and flame returns to finish what it started. Children vanish. Old magic stirs. And the blood-soaked truth of what happened in 1990 threatens to destroy a new generation. <strong>You can kill the witches.</strong> <strong>You can burn the books.</strong> <strong>But you can't silence the house.</strong></p>