The Staircase in the Woods

The Staircase in the Woods

Chuck Wendig

First published 2025

7.67.6 / 10
Score out of 1090 ratingsConfidence 38%: this much of the score is the readers’ own

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About the book

Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what. Then, on a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhere. One friend walks up—and never comes back down. Then the staircase disappears. Twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared. Now the group returns to find the lost boy—and what lies beyond the staircase in the woods. . . .

Description: publisher’s blurb via Hardcover

Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.3 across 90 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 38% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 7.8. That is how 7.6 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Hardcover7.390 100%

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