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The Girl in the Corn

The Girl in the Corn

By Jason Offutt
Categories: Fiction, Horror
Series: No relation
Imprint: CamCat Books
Audiobook : 9780744304589, January 2022
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780744304510, January 2022
Hardcover : 9780744304992, 400 pages, January 2022
Paperback : 9780744304473, 400 pages, January 2023
Paperback (Large print edition) : 9780744304480, 576 pages, January 2022

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Thomas teams up with the girl in the corn to save her world⎯and his⎯only to realize that he may not be able to distinguish good from evil before evil swallows them whole.

Description

“Norse mythology gives this story . . . a unique touch [with] an exhilarating conclusion.” —Booklist

“This was an outstanding blend of horror, speculative fiction, and apocalyptic fantasy topped with madness.” —Horror DNA

Beware of what lurks in the corn.

Fairies don’t exist. At least that’s what Thomas Cavanaugh’s parents say. But the events of that one night, when he follows a fairy into the cornfield on his parents’ farm, prove them wrong. What seems like a destructive explosion was, Thomas knows, an encounter with Dauðr, a force that threatens to destroy the fairy’s world and his sanity.

Years later, after a troubled childhood and a series of dead-end jobs, he is still haunted by what he saw that night. One day he crosses paths with a beautiful young woman and a troubled young man, soon realizing that he first met them as a kid while under psychiatric care after his encounters in the cornfield. Has fate brought them together? Are they meant to join forces to save the fairy’s world and their own? Or is one of them not who they claim to be?

For readers who enjoy The Wanderers by Chuck Wendig, The Whispering North by Alex North, and Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay.

Awards

  • Winner, IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award - Horror 2023
  • Short-listed, Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award - Best Supernatural 2023

Reviews

“[An] unholy mash-up of creepy, high-body-count paranormal thrills . . . Readers will find themselves well sated before the end.” —Publishers Weekly

The Girl in the Corn is a haunting, unsettling, gripping novel. I will have nightmares of circles filled with needle teeth for years to come. In these cornfields are such original, disturbing beasts—I was hypnotized by their presence on the page.” —Richard Thomas, Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson nominee

“Norse mythology gives this story . . . a unique touch [with] an exhilarating conclusion.” —Booklist

“This was an outstanding blend of horror, speculative fiction, and apocalyptic fantasy topped with madness . . . The Girl in the Corn is one of the first great horror novels of 2022.” —Horror DNA