When a young female clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods with this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project matches The Andy Griffith Show.

When Mouse’s dad asks her to completely clean out her dead grandmother’s home, she says yes. After all, how bad can it be?

Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with worthless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but about The Twisted Types there’s more—Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which initially seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he defined for herself.

Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse sees herself in person with a series of out of the question terrors—because sometimes things that move bump in the night are true, and they’re looking for you. And if she doesn’t face them head on, she may not survive to inform the tale.

From Hugo Award–winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Types is a gripping, terrifying story bound to keep you up all night time—from both fear and expectation of what happens next.