The Red Tree
Book description
Sarah Crowe left Atlanta—and the remnants of a tumultuous relationship—to live in an old house in rural Rhode Island. Within its walls she discovers an unfinished manuscript written by the house’s former tenant—an anthropologist obsessed with the ancient oak growing on a desolate corner of the property.
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Kiernan is, without question, one of the best practitioners of dark weird fiction working today. I’ve been reading their work almost since I started writing myself and will happily – and gratefully – admit to the early influence on my own writing. While their short stories always held a greater attraction for me personally, The Red Tree is a powerful and ambitious novel that brings together everything I love about their work. Sarah Crowe is burned-out writer fleeing from all her life contains, including herself, and the old, isolated farmhouse chosen as a refuge proves to be precisely the opposite.…
From Kirstyn's list on literary horror that will get under your skin.
I love novels that take me deep inside a protagonist’s haunted brain. In The Red Tree the protagonist (Sarah Crowe) must use her haunted brain to make sense of a haunted landscape in the aftermath of her girlfriend’s suicide.
Yes, this is a dark book; an emotionally honest book about the nature of grief and trauma. It also seems to capture how it really feels when a person, minding their own business, stumbles into the paranormal. For example, we see Sarah seesaw between belief and skepticism. (Alas, in The Red Tree, both are fueled by paranoia.)
From Nicole's list on paranormal investigation.
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