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What Stalks Among Us Hardcover – September 12, 2023

by Sarah Hollowell (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
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From Sarah Hollowell, author of A Dark and Starless Forest, comes a spine-tingling, deliriously creepy YA speculative thriller about two best friends trapped in a corn maze with corpses that look just like them.

Best friends and high school seniors Sadie and Logan make their first mistake when they ditch their end-of-year field trip to the amusement park in favor of exploring some old, forgotten backroads. The last thing they expect to come across is a giant, abandoned corn maze.

But with a whole day of playing hooking unspooling before them, they make their second mistake. Or perhaps their third? Maybe even their fourth. Because Sadie and Logan have definitely entered this maze before. And again before that.

When they stumble on the corpses in the maze, identical to them in every way (if you can ignore the stab and gunshot wounds)--from their clothes to their hidden scars to their dyed hair, to that one missing tooth--they quickly realize they’ve not only entered this maze before, they’ve died in it too. A lot. And no matter what they try, they can’t figure out what—or who—is hunting them.

Deeply unnerving, clever, and atmospheric, this time-bending, mind-bending speculative horror is a poignant meditation on the lasting effects of trauma and the healing powers of connection and forgiveness—all while delivering more surprise twists and turns than a haunted corn maze. 

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  1. Print length
    400 pages
  2. Language
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    Clarion Books
  4. Publication date
    September 12, 2023
  5. Grade level
    8 - 9
  6. Dimensions
    6 x 1.19 x 8.5 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0063251817
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0063251816
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“Via Sadie’s insightful first-person narration, Hollowell (A Dark and Starless Forest) skillfully entwines atmospheric prose bursting with 2010s pop-culture references, and disturbing scenes of body horror with sensitive explorations of neurodivergence, misogyny, internalized anti-fat bias, and emotional abuse. Sadie and Logan’s friendship serves as a strong and passionate anchor, giving heft to both the physical and interpersonal stakes of this twisted ma(i)ze of surreal psychological horror.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A trippy supernatural thriller.”  — Kirkus Reviews

“A horrific read sure to hook many with its sinister setting, sickening mystery, strong friendship, and teen introspection.” — School Library Journal

“Hollowell takes great care in representing anxiety, fatness, and poverty as normal and matter-of-fact aspects of her characters’ lives in this thoughtful and emotional horror novel.” — Booklist

About the Author

Sarah Hollowell is a queer, fat Hoosier writer aiming to up the magic quotient of Indiana. She spends an awful lot of her nonwriting time listening to podcasts, needle felting cryptids, and replaying the same five video games.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarion Books (September 12, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0063251817
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0063251816
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 - 9
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.19 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Veronica Samek
5.0 out of 5 stars Really excellent
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2023
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Did you ever watch the movie cube zero on sci-fi? This is like that but in a corn field and with more likable characters. Really enthralling read and I don’t usually do YA. Loved it as a sci-fi fan
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Danielle Reid
4.0 out of 5 stars Small package, big punch kind of YA novel
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2024
Sadie and Logan are supposed to be on their senior class trip, but they skip it and take a drive around some back country roads instead. When they come upon a giant corn maze, there's no way they can resist entering. What a fun way to spend the day, right? Only it's not. It's not at all. Sadie and Logan will die there. Again and again. As impossible as this seems, the appearance of their own corpses and the forlorn piles of possessions say otherwise, and they aren't the only ones. So many people have apparently entered the maze only to die multiple times, and their abandoned identifications indicate it's been going on for years.

What began as an entertaining excursion has quickly become a game of survival, and it's one the corn maze seems destined to win.

When you read, or listen to, the first lines of this book, do not assume you know what you're in for the way I did. This is not your run-of-the-mill corn maze horror tale. but rather a successful mashup of one along with "In the Tall Grass," an escape room and video game play. On top of that, it also handles topics such as neurodiversity. bisexuality, fat shaming, trauma, and mental abuse. This is a small package that packs a big punch.

I have seen others mention the repetition. Yes, there is some, but that's to be expected with a premise such as this. It needs to be conveyed that each reincarnation (for lack of a better word) of Sadie and Logan are replaying previous experiences based on different levels of memory retention. Each time, they might remember a bit more and will get farther, or choose another path, because of it. If you're a fan of psychological horror or thrillers, as I am, this repetition won't bother you at all. You'll perhaps revel in it and begin to glean bits of information from it just as they do.

I had put this book on the back burner for a bit, but a long drive and some deep cleaning sessions required an audiobook. This was the only one left in my queue, and I'm glad I finally got to it. I just wish I hadn't waited so long. This is author Sarah Hollowell's second novel, and I will absolutely be looking up her first.

Thank you to NetGalley, Harper Audio and Sarah Hollowell for providing the VoiceGalley advanced audio edition of "What Stalks Among Us" for which I've chosen to write this objective review.
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D. Bush
5.0 out of 5 stars read if you love a spooky corn maze
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2023
This is a great Young Adult Horror, I mean a weird corn maze with no exit where you not only find the bodies of other people and all of the stuff they left behind but you also find your own... bodies, and that's not even the worst of it.

When Sadie and Logan decide to skip the senior trip and decide to head into the random corn maze they found while traveling a back road, well, they definitely get more than they bargained for. Their phones stop working, the sun doesn't move, and it seems like the corn is only letting them move through once it's good and ready, not to mention the bodies they've found some of which belong to them all killed in violent ways. They are trapped with no way out and only one other person who they aren't sure can be trusted.

I love both Sadie and Logan, their friendship is adorable and heartwarming, and I love how they can always count on each other. I really connected with Sadie in a lot of ways, and reading her really made me feel seen.

The maze was creepy, I loved the mystery of it all, and the suspense of waiting to see what was going to happen next kept me on the edge of my seat until I reached the last page.
And I have to say living in a place with a lot of cornfields, I will be looking at them in a whole new way. This is a book I would definitely buy a physical copy of, and I can't wait to see what Sarah Hollowell will come out with next.
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D. M. Evans
4.0 out of 5 stars Strange and intriguing YA
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2023
I enjoyed this YA horror immensely...after a while. For me it was a bit of a slow starter and it took a few time loops to get into it. The premise is both simple and complex at the same time. Sadie (who's first person point of view we're in) and her bestie Logan decide to play hookey from the school field trip to the amusement park and end up in a strange corn maze because that's an October thing and it's early spring when they find it.

This is a hard one to review without spoiling things so I'll keep it to the blurb. The maze functions almost like a video game where it resets itself and Sadie and Logan have to fight to keep their memories of the previous time loop because they've found their own dead bodies and if they keep dying they know they'll never get out of the loop. The maze has more secrets than that but those are best left to the reader to discover on their own.They're worth it. As a content warning there is a crap ton about abusive relationships and domestic violence in this. Most of it is not on page but it is discussed a lot. The resolution of the story felt right and was satisfying (because it would have been easy to go off the rails on this one)

Sadie and Logan are good characters with a lot to like about them but I did have a few problems so I can talk about that without spoilers. For one, Logan doesn't feel like a truly formed character in some ways. Maybe it's because it's in first person pov or that there is a sameness to them. Both he and Sadie are ADHD, anxious and bisexual. The major difference is Sadie is an overweight girl and Logan is an Asian/Caucasian male. But there is so much the same that it feels like Logan isn't entirely his own man. True many of our friends are very much like ourselves but in ways Logan felt like his only role was to be Sadie's bestie and to validate all her feelings which seems to be Logan's main function. I wish he had a louder voice in this because No Sadie without Logan/No Logan without Sadie was repeated ad nauseum in this and I wanted Logan to have a few more quirks to call his own.

The other issue for me is Sadie herself and this is dangerous ground to tread on because the author's note says how much of herself is in this. As for me the reader/reviewer, I too am an overweight woman with anxiety and ADHD and we're in the your mileage may vary territory. Most of Sadie's thoughts are about how fat and anxious she is and how much she wished she was more fat positive like her cousin. You know what, fine, that absolutely needs addressed. But that seems to be the end all be all of Sadie and yes, I know that there are overweight women out there who might spend all day every day thinking about it.

I personally don't. And it's in every chapter. It's every few pages. Some of it is the repetitiveness of the early time loop stuff. But Sadie never really moves beyond that. It's her main thought right after how do we get out of this maze. Her weight issues and the anxiety from them play into the abusive relationship as well. Don't get me wrong, some of that is needed. It helps shine a light on what people go through being that overweight. On the other than, she exhausted me because that's about all she seems to think about. It wasn't a deal breaker for the story but I really wished there had been more to her than that because about the only other things i remember about her is she thought she was good at mazes and she lost her friendships over her gas lighting emotionally abusive boyfriend.

The last compliant is to be taken with a grain of salt because I know from first hand experience how little an author has input on covers. I barely recognized Sadie was overweight from that cover. Her own description has her unable to sit in chairs with arms and the reason for not going to the amusement park is she's too fat for the rides. I know how big I am (bigger than the girl on the cover) and I fit in chairs/rides so I can guess how big Sadie must be and it was a disappointment the publisher didn't use cover art with a truly obese character on the cover (especially when we have books like the Faith Herbert series out there with an obvious plus sized protagonist)
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