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Nominated for the 2024 Philip K. Dick Award
AnEsquireBest of Horror 2023 pick
“Without question, one of the most beautifully written books Ive read this year.“The Wall Street Journal
“Can a horror story be beautiful?Wild Spacestells a terrible truth in the most achingly beautiful way.”Alma Katsu, author ofThe Fervor
Robert R. McCammonsBoys Lifemeets Lovecraftian horror in this foreboding, sensual coming-of-age debut in which the corrosive nature of family secrets and toxic relatives assume eldritch proportions.
An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog Teach. But when the boys eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain.
The longer his grandfather outstays his welcome and the greater the tension between the adults grows, the more the boy feels something within him changing physicallyinto something his grandfather welcomes and his mother fears. Something abyssal. Something monstrous.
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