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Gravesbarrow
Gravesbarrow is a perfectly normal town according to its perfectly abnormal residents.
Thanks to cursed confectionaries they can’t believe anything else, or in the strange and paranormal.
New resident Ben just wants to ignore his painfully perfect cousin Wendy. His chance comes when the Rusalka lurks outside his window one night. It offers him a choice, his bratty, annoying cousin for his own safety.
Despite his dislike for Wendy, Ben refuses the offer. Because of the candy, no one believes in the Rusalka or its threat to replace him instead. Wendy certainly doesn’t until she is forced to save Ben from the Rusalka with a shovel.
In their attempt to survive the Rusalka they encounter other paranormal entities that lurk around the edges of Gravesbarrow. Like the ghost of a former principal that haunts mirrors, a Leshy that hates children, sludge balls with a taste for tentacles, and a disappearing lake. While discovering a way to defeat the Rusalka without being replaced. All in a perfectly normal town.
Thanks to cursed confectionaries they can’t believe anything else, or in the strange and paranormal.
New resident Ben just wants to ignore his painfully perfect cousin Wendy. His chance comes when the Rusalka lurks outside his window one night. It offers him a choice, his bratty, annoying cousin for his own safety.
Despite his dislike for Wendy, Ben refuses the offer. Because of the candy, no one believes in the Rusalka or its threat to replace him instead. Wendy certainly doesn’t until she is forced to save Ben from the Rusalka with a shovel.
In their attempt to survive the Rusalka they encounter other paranormal entities that lurk around the edges of Gravesbarrow. Like the ghost of a former principal that haunts mirrors, a Leshy that hates children, sludge balls with a taste for tentacles, and a disappearing lake. While discovering a way to defeat the Rusalka without being replaced. All in a perfectly normal town.
246 pages, Hardcover
Published April 1, 2025
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July 13, 2025
3.5 stars. Gravesbarrow is a pretty cool children's horror with a unique monster that I can almost guarantee you aren't familiar with. Overall, it's a good book that is held back by some writing issues. Certain parts are confusing or don't make sense due to the way they are written and there are grammatical issues throughout. Additionally, I had trouble at times deciding what age the kids were supposed to be. Most of the time they came off as very young, but occasionally they seemed to turn into teenagers for a few passages. Oh, and there's one scene that is written innocently enough but probably shouldn't be in there at all where the girl is sleeping in her underwear and the boy almost gets an eyeful. It's not necessary and felt uncomfortable.
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