Wild Spaces

Robert R. McCammon's Boy's Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-of-age debut in which the corrosive nature of family secrets and toxic relatives assume eldritch proportions.

"If you mix Flannery O'Connor's sense of Southern grotesquerie with Shirley Jackson's tales of every day horror, you get Shaw Coney."-Sara Paretsky, New York Times bestselling author

An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog Teach. But when the boy's eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain.

The longer his grandfather outstays his welcome and the greater the tension between the adults grows, the more the boy feels something within him changing -physically-into something his grandfather welcomes and his mother fears. Something abyssal. Something monstrous.