80. Starve Acre – Andrew Michael Hurley

Richard and Juliette live in an isolated house on the moors and they moved their initially so that their son Ewan could have a nice outdoorsy growing up experience by a small village. But, Ewan dies. And before Ewan dies, it wasn’t working out with the village, even though Richard is from there and they’re living in his parents’ house so Richard can go through all the things his father kept getting weird about like if he reorganizes his books wonky-style, something won’t get to him.

This was a way more enjoyable reading experience for me than The Loney. It’s way more ominous as you go through the snippets of background information and varieties of madness and grief. It’s also shorter and felt more clear in its folk horror elements, although those not being so clear is pretty normal too, but I liked this better, weird ending and all.

Horace is slightly behind one of Danger Crumples’ fluffy locks here and he knows better than to root around in the ground for hanging trees. Danger Crumples is lucky to have him around, since with a name like that, he tends to go a-rooting.