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The Unheld

Luke Larkin · Horror

36 Pulse Score

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coming of agequestgothic atmospherehigh stakes survival
supernatural horrorcoming of age

#297 All Time

About this book

A girl in the Montana territory sets out to find her father after he is carried off by an otherworldly creature in this atmospheric horror Western. Charlie's life is a lonely one. While other twelve-year-olds are in school, she spends her days skinning the animals her mercurial father hunts in the wild woods just outside their cabin. And the woods and its twisted creatures--an owl with four wings, a boar with two heads, a fox with gills--are becoming stranger by the day. One night, a nightmarish beast neither animal nor human appears and drags Charlie's father into the wilderness. To find him, she enlists the aid of two unlikely allies also in search of the beast: an Englishman with a connection to a mysterious occult society and a Northern Cheyenne policeman exiled for a crime he didn't commit. Yet as she and her allies prepare for a confrontation with the Beast, Charlie must decide if her father, a brusque man who has always withheld his affection, is ultimately worth saving. The Unh

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