Girl in the Creek

Girl in the Creek

Wendy N. Wagner

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 4.0
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The Girl in the Creek by Hugo Award winner Wendy N. Wagner is an atmospheric and eerie story about a Pacific Northwest forest that seems to be devouring all who enter. A perfect read for fans of T. Kingfisher and Jeff VanderMeer’s cli-fi cosmic horror.The Clackamas National Forest has always been a sanctuary for evil—human and alien.The shadows of looming trees and long-abandoned mines shelter poachers and serial killers alike. Then there’s the ruined hotel on the outskirts of picturesque small town Faraday, Oregon, nestled in the foothills of Mt. Hood. The one drowning in mushrooms and fungus not even the local expert can identify.Not to mention the stacks of missing persons cases.Freelance writer Erin Harper arrives in Faraday to find out what happened to her brother, whose disappearance in the forest has haunted her for years. But someone else has gone missing. And when Erin finds her in the creek, the girl vanishes again — this time from the morgue, and days later her fingerprints show up at a murder scene.Maybe it’s a serial killer, or maybe it’s the spores infecting the forest and those lost inside. Erin must find answers quickly, before anyone else goes missing. But she might be next…At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


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  • Matchamelon
    Apr 21, 2025
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 4.0
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    I won an advanced reader copy of this book in a giveaway, so thank you so much to Goodreads and Tor publishing for the ARC! I had such a blast reading this book. I love the horror genre in general but my eyes are always on the lookout for some good ecohorror. There is a lot of intrigue in the book, so many different things to get you hooked so that you keep turning the page. I really enjoyed the setting, the characters, and the nature of the book! Wagner was super descriptive throughout the story so it was easy to imagine all of the horrors happening, which is always a plus. I definitely recommend giving this a read if you like horror or ecohorror/body rot!

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