#86 in Horror
The Hollow Places
- 352
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Hollow Places” is portal horror told in a light, modern voice, and the contrast is what makes it work. Behind a wall in the curiosity museum her uncle runs, Kara finds a way into somewhere deeply wrong, and the small cast keeps the story fast and close. Readers disagree about how frightening it is: some call it terrifying, others wanted more scares.
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About the book
Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more one fears them, the stronger they become. With her distinctive “delightfully fresh and subversive” (SF Bluestocking) prose and the strange, sinister wonder found in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, The Hollow Places is another compelling and white-knuckled horror novel that you won’t be able to put down.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 318 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 68% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.8 | 8 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 310 | 98% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Hollow Places?
It has 352 pages — shorter than 68% of the ranked books in Horror.
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