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The Hollow Kind: A Novel Kindle Edition

by Andy Davidson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
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“The Hollow Kind seeps into your subconscious and waits for you in your nightmares.” —S. A. Cosby, bestselling author of Razorblade Tears

Andy Davidson’s epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by an ancient evil.

When Nellie Gardner learns that she has inherited a turpentine estate from her long-lost grandfather, she throws everything she can think of in her pickup and flees to Georgia with her eleven-year-old son, Max, in tow.

August Redfern’s “estate” is a decrepit farmhouse on a thousand acres of old pine forest, but Nellie sees it as the perfect refuge—a safe place to hide from her violent husband and the chance for a fresh start. But Max sees what his mother can’t: Redfern Hill is no haven. Something lurks beneath the soil, ancient and hungry, with the power to corrupt hearts and destroy souls. And Nellie’s return is about to wake it up.

From the author of The Boatman’s Daughter comes a jaw-dropping, terrifying novel about legacy and the nightmares hidden in family histories. Andy Davidson’s The Hollow Kind is a twisted tale of cosmic horror mixed with a stunning Southern Gothic fable that will haunt you long after you turn the final page.

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An Esquire Best Horror Book of 2022
A Paste Magazine Best Horror Book of 2022

"Andy Davidson is quickly establishing himself as the newest master of southern gothic horror. The Hollow Kind seeps into your subconscious and waits for you in your nightmares."
―S. A. Cosby, bestselling author of Razorblade Tears

“A deep, dark story of family secrets and inherited horrors, Andy Davidson’s The Hollow Kind is as gripping and twisted as old tree roots―you can practically smell the creosote and longleaf pine. This one kept me up, turning pages long into the night.”
―T. Kingfisher, author of What Moves the Dead

“The Hollow Kind is a gloriously wild, twisted family saga with buckets of body horror and is going to mess you up good.”
―Paul Tremblay, author of The Pallbearers Club, on Twitter

"Mr. Davidson once more proves himself master of the art of horror writing."
―Wall Street Journal Review

"Davidson effectively uses horror to explore intergenerational trauma. The characters are diverse and interesting.... Inventive and rich, The Hollow Kind is an entertaining and frightening family saga."
―Sarah Rachel Egelman, Book Reporter

"Masterful writing... The Hollow Kind is a riveting novel that will satisfy any horror fan (and many soon-to-be fans). Andy Davidson has done a sublime job with this portrait of a family plagued by supernatural terror and very human trauma."
―Mariko Hewer, Washington Independent Review of Books

"Lush, imaginative, and teeming with skin crawling imagery, The Hollow Kind is a stunning blending of genres and eras into one very impactful package"
―Matthew Jackson, Paste Magazine

"The Hollow Kind is a classic piece of Southern Gothic literature: dense, baroque, and rooted in the history of the land. Faulkner and Lovecraft would both approve."
―Neil McRobert, Esquire

"A visceral story that weaves past and present together, The Hollow Kind is a well-crafted tale about secrets that refuse to stay hidden, the weight of past sins, and redemption. With atmospheric imagery, compelling characters, and a gripping premise, Davidson proves why horror is one of the most effective genres for exploring interpersonal conflict and the complicated nature of familial relationships."
―Popmatters

"Andy Davidson’s imagination is deep, dark, and visceral."
―BN Editors, Best Horror Books of 2022

"With his third novel, Davidson plants his roots in horror’s soil as one its most talented voices . . . The Hollow Kind is a Southern Gothic epic that masterfully weaves elements of body, folk, and cosmic horror, knitting it all together into something wholly new, immersive, terrifying, and utterly breathtaking."
–Becky Spratford, Booklist

“Greed, trespass, revenge, and obsession provide the emotional palette for this breathless, wide-eyed horror fable that chronicles the unforgivable trespasses that cost multiple generations their souls.”
―Kirkus Reviews

"Whether you call it historical horror, folk horror, or southern gothic, Andy Davidson's The Hollow Kind is as beautifully written as it is chilling. The combination of dual timelines with a little-explored piece of America's past truly sets this book apart. Every page reverberates with inescapable dread."
―Alma Katsu, author of The Fervor

“Andy Davidson has mapped out a terrifying family tree of Southern Gothic genealogies―think the Hatfields and McCoys as penned by Stephen King.”
―Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters

“A lovely, lyrical, terrifying epic. One of the best horror novels I’ve read in years.”
 ―Shaun Hamill, author of A Cosmology of Monsters

About the Author

Andy Davidsonis the Bram Stoker Award–nominated author of In the Valley of the Sun and The Boatman’s Daughter. Born and raised in Arkansas, he makes his home in Georgia, where he lives with his wife, Crystal, and a bunch of cats.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09NTJVRPH
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ MCD (October 11, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 11, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 16198 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 450 pages
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Andy Davidson is the Bram Stoker Award nominated author of In the Valley of the Sun, The Boatman's Daughter, and The Hollow Kind. Born and raised in Arkansas, he makes his home in Georgia with his wife, Crystal, and a bunch of cats.

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4 out of 5 stars
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211 global ratings
Historical gothic horror at its finest
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Historical gothic horror at its finest
First off, I will say that I am typically not a fan of historical anything. Historical horror though is a different story. The Hollow Kind is a slow burn thriller but the last few chapters knocked this out of the park. I will admit to being confused during the first half but everything came together in the end and I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. Great writing from Andy Davidson! Can’t wait to pick up more books from him.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Four starts--just.
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2022
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If Stephen King's fear and horror hit you directly in the gut, Andy Davidson's "The Hollow Kind" gets in under your skin, and is well worth reading. The writing is remarkable, especially with descriptions of the Georgia woods that are at times wondrous , haunting, frightening and ominous. As for detail, he makes reference more species of grasses, trees, shrubs, and vines than one could find in a botanical encyclopedia.

The plotting starts slowly, giving only vague hints of what is to follow and allows the reader to become immersed with the characters as the horror he creates begins to unfold and claim its first victims This is not a Grade B movie type in which the characters make obviously dumb choices that predictably lead to their demise but one in which they struggle to understand what it is they are being forced to confront and why.

These positives sufficiently outweigh the novel's flaws to allow it four stars, but barely. Although some reviewers have objected to the numerous flashbacks and time jumps, I found them necessary to extend the tension and provide the backstory for the events that proceed in the present. However, the truly monstrous entity that claims and feeds on its victims for most of the book ,is not what threatens and kills at the end, in a confusing and cliched exposition of chaos and violence by a new and different malignant force, spoiling for me, the novel's prior good intent. It ends with "it is a good end...[A]nd a fitting prologue to the next," an all too obvious and thus annoying message that a sequel is on its way.
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Joe A
5.0 out of 5 stars Nature Red in Tooth, Claw, and Tentacle
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2022
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This is Southern Gothic horror at its best. Andy Davidson, in his third and best novel, does for Georgia what Stephen King did for Maine, making it vividly real (in several time frames) while infusing it with supernatural horror (including a house haunted by what at first appear to be ghosts but turn out to be something much worse). I found the book hard to put down, starting it just before Halloween and finishing it just after. Davidson’s powerful style drew me in and held me spellbound. He is indeed, as The Wall Street Journal recently called him, a master of the art of horror.
One or two Amazon reviewers found it difficult to follow Davidson’s narrative time-shifts, but I found them clearly delineated and never confusing. The interplay between past and present serves not only to make the burden of the sins of the fathers more dramatic for the reader (especially in terms of dramatic irony, as we come to know certain key past events well before present characters know them), but also to flesh out the characters and their motivations.
Effective horror fiction benefits from strong sympathetic protagonists whose fate we care about; Nellie and her 11-year-old son Max both easily meet this criterion. We also like to see the antagonists (abusive husband/father Wade, greedy unscrupulous Lonnie Baxter, et al.) get their just deserts. Most of them do, of course. As for the monster, the Dweller’s predations only slightly exceed the horrors of several all-too-human predators, who not only victimize other people but also devour the land and trees. These men are monsters who “used up the land, played vampire to an entire forest until the whole enterprise was bled dry.” And “Her [Euphemia’s] father’s heart . . . would show little more than greed tangled up in a monster’s plunging roots.” The novel oscillates brilliantly between Lovecraftian supernatural horror and an incisive naturalism that convincingly conveys the ecological theme.
In The Hollow Kind, the monster in the Hollow comes to signify the hearts of humans “hollowed out” not only by the cruelty and greed of predators, but also by the suffering and grief of their victims. Fortunately, (spoiler alert!), not all victims succumb.
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3.0 out of 5 stars mostly great
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2023
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Last third felt hurried and confusing. And the reveal that it’s a blue eyed slug…? Why was it psychic? Where was it from? How did it learn to manipulate/grow trees and vines?
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austin
4.0 out of 5 stars well written, scary, and intense
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2023
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This book is long but you’ll read it quickly. The story is very Stephen King-esque and hits all the notes of a good horror story. The characters are well written and developed without being overly detailed and the settings draw you in. I’ll definitely be reading other books from Davidson
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Linda S.
5.0 out of 5 stars Scritch-scritch-scritch
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2022
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I loved this book. It had LOADS of imagination, excellent characters and nasty critters and a terrific plot and ending. This book told the story of a family from shifting perspectives — the grandfather, the granddaughter, the great grandson and others. It was clearly laid out and in a captivating way. This was a story about how horror affects people and how they develop over generations. I found this aspect of the story terrific. It laid the groundwork for a family tormented by evil — an evil they couldn't escape. So … they lived with it and suffered for it. Continuing, the plot was solid, it was well-written and, well, it was full of horror which was deliciously descriptive and impossible to turn from. So few books these days really deliver on horror and I was thrilled that this book did. If I had to be critical of anything related to this book, I'd say it was a bit long, but, no matter, I loved it anyway. Lots of stars for the location, the characters, the story, the ending and, of course, the critters, but especially the central critter who was out of this world.
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J. Milburn
4.0 out of 5 stars strong folk horror
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2022
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Story of a family who is blessed / cursed with a monster to take care of. Told across three timelines and 4 generations, this book does a good job at bringing the scares but also showing how trauma shapes survivors.
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Bill
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Masterful
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2023
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I cannot praise Andy Davidson to the degree that his storytelling and prose deserve. He is simply on a different level than I can sum up with mere words. His writing is more than just a thing you take in with your eyes. It's a full body experience. You taste anther and feel the blood and sweat and tragedy. Despair and exultation mix with terror and joy. A Southern Gothic, Great American novel vie with Lovecraftian terror in the antebellum south all the way to the very end of the 80's. If you love to read, if you are one who pauses just to take in the turn of phrase, go now. But this book, read it, and rediscover why you learned to love the written word.
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