Miskowski's novel-length fairy tale are three restless girls, best friends stuck in the backwater of Skillute, Washington in the late 1960s. Angel Leigh McCoy, Wily Writers At the center of S.P. Peter Tennant, Black Static With her distinct voice, Miskowski takes you deep into the back woods of America, where shadows chase you and people do the unthinkable. Eventually the story achieves a momentum all its own, rushing headlong to a shattering finale, and the prose, which Miskowski uses with such care and accuracy throughout, in the final pages attains a fever dream intensity, so that we can't trace any clear divide between reality and the skewed perspectives of the characters, the two blurring into each other, everything viewed through a blood red filter and in the light cast by flickering flames. Molly Tanzer, A PRETTY MOUTH Starting slowly the book builds to a crescendo, first giving us innocent children on a jaunt in the woods and then taking the story forward to where they are fallible adults, exposed to the machinations of the evil they have unwittingly released. There are supernatural elements to the book, yes, but the setting (an impoverished, ruined logging town) and the main characters (three school girls with hopes and dreams made improbable if not impossible by their realities) are a beautifully rendered commentary on the cyclical nature of real-world human tragedy.

more than a great read it is a fascinating meditation on the nature of horror. Just be sure to keep the doors locked and all the lights on -Lucy Taylor, THE SILENCE BETWEEN THE SCREAMS. 'item_description' : 'Beautifully written and relentlessly suspenseful, it's a great book to curl up with on a cold winter's night.

Knock Knock by S.P. Miskowski