Laird Hunt is the author of eight novels, a collection of stories, and two book-length translations from the French. A 2024 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction, he is also the winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, the Bridge Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, the Pen/Faulkner and the Prix Femina Étranger. Hunt's reviews and essays have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and many others. He teaches in the Department of Literary Arts at Brown University and lives in Providence.
'"A dark treat of a novel: lush, exciting and gorgeously
strange."--Sarah Waters
"[Hunt] has fashioned an edge of-the-seat experience more akin to
watching a horror movie. Don't go in the cellar! Don't eat that pig
meat! Darkness is everywhere. . . . So prepare yourself. This is a
perfect book to read when you're safely tucked in your home, your
back to the wall, while outside your door the wind rips the leaves
from the trees and the woods grow dark."--New York Times Book
Review
"A thrilling, magical tale that straddles two worlds: the harsh, at
times grim reality of colonial New England, and the imaginative
shadow world from which the oldest fairy tales are
woven."--Kathleen Kent, bestselling author of The Heretic's
Daughter
"Engrossing... a game abundant in mysteries but scant in
resolutions. The book's greatest strength is its striking, sensual
prose."--The New Yorker
"Hunt's accomplished prose creates the atmosphere of possibility
and danger that lurks in the best fairy tales, where anything can
happen but everything has a cost. Highly recommended for fans of
that amorphous border between fantasy, horror, and literary fiction
as found in the work of Kelly Link, in Joy Williams' The Changeling
(1978), or in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber
(1979)."--Booklist, Starred Review
"I adored this book and found it to be entirely spellbinding and
scary and strange... It carries us along in a current of
intoxicating dread, bearing witness to one woman's dreamlike
journey of the soul."--Mona Awad, author of 13 Ways of Looking at a
Fat Girl
"It's tough to give a simple description of this book, except to
say that it tackles witchcraft in colonial America, providing a
mythology that's sure to disturb."--Bookriot
"Like Richard Hughes' In Hazard or Arthur Machen's 'The White
People, ' Hunt's In the House in the Dark of the Woods tells a dark
story brightly, leading the reader to see and sense the things that
the protagonist isn't saying, and maybe can't even acknowledge. A
wonderful, luminous, sly tale that orbits around a very grim core,
growing darker and darker as it goes. A stunning contemporary fairy
tale."--Brian Evenson, author of A Collapse of Horses
"The eerie, disturbing story of one of our perennial
fascinations--witchcraft in colonial America--wrapped up in a
lyrical novel of psychological suspense."--BookBub
"With the surprise of fairy tale and fable but with the complexity
of one's favorite literary novel, Laird Hunt again gives us fierce,
complex women living in American history."--TaraShea Nesbit, author
of The Wives of Los Alamos
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