Book of Accidents

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A <b>family returns to their hometown—and to the dark past that haunts them still</b>—in this masterpiece of literary horror by the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Wanderers</i></b><br><br><b>LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • “The dread, the scope, the pacing, the turns—I haven’t felt all this so intensely since <i>The Shining</i>.”—Stephen Graham Jones, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Only Good Indians</i></b><br><br><b>ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Public Library, <i>Library Journal<br></i></b><br>Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his family what happened there. <br><br>Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t have—and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures. <br><br>Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania. <br><br>Now, Nate and Maddie Graves are married, and they have moved back to their hometown with their son, Oliver.<br>  <br>And now what happened long ago is happening again . . . and it is happening to Oliver. He meets a strange boy who becomes his best friend, a boy with secrets of his own and a taste for dark magic. <br><br>This dark magic puts them at the heart of a battle of good versus evil and a fight for the soul of the family—and perhaps for all of the world. But the Graves family has a secret weapon in this battle: their love for one another.