The Hollow Kind

A Novel

By: Andy Davidson

Narrated by: Susie James

Andy Davidson's epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by an ancient evil.

Nellie Gardner is looking for a way out of an abusive marriage when she learns that her long-lost grandfather, August Redfern, has willed her his turpentine estate. She throws everything she can think of in a bag and flees to Georgia with her eleven-year-old son, Max, in tow.

It turns out that the "estate" is a decrepit farmhouse on a thousand acres of old pine forest, but Nellie is thrilled about the chance for a fresh start for her and Max, and a chance for the happy home she never had. So it takes her a while to notice the strange scratching in the walls, the faint whispering at night, how the forest is eerily quiet. But Max sees what his mother can't: They're no safer here than they had been in South Carolina. In fact, things might even be worse. There's something wrong with Redfern Hill. Something lurks beneath the soil, ancient and hungry, with the power to corrupt hearts and destroy souls. It is the true legacy of Redfern Hill: a kingdom of grief and death, to which Nellie’s own blood has granted her the key.

From the author of The Boatman's Daughter, The Hollow Kind is a jaw-dropping novel about legacy and the horrors that hide in the dark corners of family history. Andy Davidson's gorgeous, Gothic fable tracing the spectacular fall of the Redfern family will haunt you long after you turn the final page.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

More please!

I cannot get enough of Andy Davidson! I stumbled into In The Valley Of The Sun while I was looking for something to haunt me. And now that I have finished The Hollow Kind I can say this book too stays with you and haunts you! Elaborate and rich world building with patient skillful storytelling makes for a book that sneaks up on you again and again! Fantastic narration of this book makes for an experience that is engrossing and powerful!

Okay

Definitely could have been better. Doesn’t go in to a lot of detail regarding the main villain.

Amazing!!

I don’t get the 1 star reviews for this book, though I’m guessing there’s no accounting for taste. Andy Davidson is a master of weird, slithery, skittery, horror! An excellently woven story with a very original adversary. If you like stories with old creaky houses, historical flashbacks, strange and unusual creatures, and things that will make your skin crawl, this book is for you. The narrator did a good job but she may have benefited from asking about the pronunciation of words she was unfamiliar with. Some she seemed to guess at. Otherwise this was excellent!

not spoon fed

first off im horrible at writing. This is a horror story where you actually have to pay attention and understand names of people. it's totally reshresing and it's not spoon fed. Great horror story and I have about 5,000 horror books.

Good reader, meh story

This was like so many stories - very unoriginal, so dull I kept forgetting what I had just read when I was reading the print copy and when I would go back to the audiobook I had to backtrack so many times. The narrator was good, but the story was kind of lackluster.