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The Twisted Ones

2019400 pagesSimon & Schuster

Synopsis

When Mouse's dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be? Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there's more — Mouse stumbles across the diary of her late step-grandfather, Frederick Cotgrave, who had been obsessed with something called "the twisted ones" before he died. What starts as an unsettling family mystery escalates into a full-blown nightmare when the creatures begin to invade reality and hunt those around them.

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About the author

T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of Ursula Vernon, an author from North Carolina. In another life, she writes children's books and weird comics. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy and the Eisner, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, Nebula, Alfie, WSFA, Coyotl and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections. This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups. Her work includes multiple fairy-tale retellings and odd little stories about...

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Characters

Mother MouseProtagonist
FoxySupporting