Wicked Things
Winner of the International Horror Guild Award
“Clever, fast paced… an effectively chilling movie-in-the-mind” – New York Times
The small town of Winship seems so perfect … on the surface. But as investigator Jack Carlson is finding out, appearances can be deceiving.
He’s looking into a series of mysterious deaths in the town, but the more he pokes behind the picture-postcard facade, the more frightened he becomes.
How could someone disappear in an open meadow, as if swallowed by the earth?
Why does the ground seem to glow in spots?
Why is no one able to stop the gangs of young thugs who roam the streets at will?
Local residents are afraid to answer his questions – with good cause. They know that Winship’s tranquil exterior hides some truly dark secrets…
Wicked Things is a gripping horror thriller from bestselling author Thomas Tessier. It was the Winner of the International Horror Guild Award.
Praise for Thomas Tessier:
“Rapture is great, destined to take its rightful place among the most memorable novels of psychological horror” – Washington Post
“Unpredictable… ingenious… nerve-paralysing” – Publishers Weekly
“Clever, fast paced… an effectively chilling movie-in-the-mind” – New York Times
“‘The Nightwalker’ is perhaps the finest werewolf novel of the last twenty years…scary, grim, fast-paced, very good.” – Stephen King
“An intoxicating blend of psychological drama and physical compulsion… enthralling.” – Library Journal
“Thomas Tessier’s stories are truly scary.” – Kirkus Reviews
“rattles the nerves and shocks the sensibilities.” – Houston Chronicle
“one of that select band of writers whose horror fiction I am anxious to read as soon as it appears” – Ramsey Campbell
“one of the very best writers of horror fiction of this generation.” – Douglas E. Winter, Reader’s Guide to Horror Fiction
“Thomas Tessier’s stories are beguiling…evocative…mesmerizing.” – ALA_Booklist
“a vastly talented writer and his stories are shocking…horrifying.” – RMN_Newsroom
“There is a building tension under the surface that makes reading Thomas Tessier an intense experience all to itself.” – DreadCentral
“Thomas Tessier’s horrors spring from honest exploration of our erotic impulses.” – toomuchhorror
“[‘The Nightwalker’ has] brutal action and a welcome sense of ambiguity” Huffington Post
“Thomas Tessier’s command of his craft is captivating.” – The Hartford Courant
