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The Near Witch
355 pages
A haunting, wind-swept mystery where childhood folklore bleeds into a chilling reality.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like listening to a dark, cautionary folktale whispered by the fire. It wraps the reader in a wind-swept, haunting atmosphere where the boundary between myth and reality slowly unravels. The narrative moves at a steady, suspenseful pace, building dread as long-held community truths are challenged by unsettling disappearances and the arrival of an enigmatic outsider. The prose carries the lyrical, eerie cadence of a bedtime story gone wrong, immersing you in an isolated village steeped in suspicion and supernatural whispers. It is a perfect match for readers who crave atmospheric paranormal fiction, where the landscape itself feels alive and old legends hold dangerous, hidden truths.
- Mood
- wind-swept
- haunting
- mysterious
- dread-tinged
- Tone
- atmospheric
- eerie
- suspenseful
- folkloric
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- the power of folklore · fear of the outsider · uncovering hidden truths · community secrets
- The writing
- Lyrical and atmospheric, echoing the eerie cadence of a dark bedtime story.
- The arc
- The journey shifts from the uneasy comfort of familiar legends to the urgent, chilling realization that dark myths are real.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love atmospheric paranormal mysteries where local folklore bleeds into a chilling reality.
Content notes
- child disappearances
- paranoia and suspicion
About the book
The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children.
If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company.
There are no strangers in the town of Near.
These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life.
But when an actual stranger, a boy who seems to fade like smoke, appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true.
The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion.
As the hunt for the children intensifies, so does Lexi's need to know about the witch that just might be more than a bedtime story, about the wind that seems to speak through the walls at night, and about the history of this nameless boy.
Description from Open Library.
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