3 recommendations for T. Kingfisher fans who loved The Hollow Places, The Twisted Ones, Wolf Worm.
If Wolf Worm's parasitic invasion under your skin made you feel gloriously, viscerally alive with revulsion, you need this Georgia-set nightmare where trees bleed and family secrets burrow just as deep. Same prickly, sharp-tongued heroine wielding dark humor through mounting terror. Same grotesque transformations that hit your gut and refuse to let go.
The Twisted Ones hooked you with Mouse's sarcastic pragmatism facing down folklore-fueled nightmares, where humor grounded the cosmic dread and Bongo stole every scene. You craved psychological tension over gore, ancient myths clashing with modern sensibilities, and a heroine who refuses to play fragile. That blend of Southern Gothic critique, inherited curses, and character-driven terror that feels both timeless and urgently personal? We found your next obsession.
If The Hollow Places hooked you with its no-nonsense heroine Kara's wry humor and resilient grit amid interdimensional nightmares, you'll devour The Year of the Witching's Immanuelle facing eldritch curses in an oppressive Puritan world. That slow-burn atmospheric dread, blending everyday relatability with incomprehensible entities, echoes here through forbidden woods and themes of rebellion against authority. It's the perfect fix for introspective horror fans craving emotional depth, dark folklore, and capable women subverting cosmic terror without the gore.