#169 in Horror
The Twisted Ones
- 400
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Twisted Ones” is horror with a wry voice, set in a hoarder’s house in rural North Carolina and the woods around it. The heroine’s sarcasm is the draw, keeping the dread closer to unease than terror. Readers disagree about the pace: for some it moves briskly, while some feel it takes far too long to get anywhere. Horror for those who like a clever, sharp-tongued lead beside the chills.
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About the book
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show. When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be? Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more—Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself. Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors—because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you. And if she doesn’t face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale. From Hugo Award–winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones is a gripping, terrifying tale bound to keep you up all night—from both fear and anticipation of what happens next.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 252 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 63% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.5 | 8 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 244 | 97% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Twisted Ones?
It has 400 pages — longer than 50% of the ranked books in Horror.
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