In the Night Wood Audiobook (Free)

Within this contemporary fantasy, the grieving biographer of the Victorian fantasist discovers himself slipping inexorably in to the supernatural globe that consumed his subject matter.

Failed father, failed husband, and failed scholar, Charles Hayden hopes to put his life back together with a fresh task: a biography of Caedmon Hollow, the long-dead author of a legendary Victorian children’s book, In the Night Wood, and forebear of his wife, Erin. Deep in mourning from the increased loss of their young daughter, they about In the Night Wood pack up their American lives, Erin provides up her legal practice, and the couple settles in Hollow’s remote control Yorkshire mansion.

In the neighboring village, Charles fulfills a woman he could have loved, a child who might have been his own daughter, and the ghost of a self he hoped to bury. Erin, paralyzed by her grief, immerses herself in supplements and painting pictures of a horned terror in the woods.

In the primeval forest surrounding Caedmon Hollow’s ancestral home, a historical power is stirring, a long-forgotten king who haunts the Haydens’ dreams. And every morning the fringe of darkling trees presses closer.

Quickly enough, Charles and Erin can venture in to the night wood.

Quickly enough, they’ll learn that this darkness under the trees and shrubs is but a darkness from the darkness that waits inside us all.