ISBN: 0593158768 9780593158760

Category: Fiction / Horror

Page count: 640

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A small town is transformed when seven strange trees begin bearing magical apples in this masterpiece of horror from the author of <i>Wanderers </i>and <i>The Book of Accidents</i>.</b><br><br><b>“This masterful outing should continue to earn Wendig comparisons to Stephen King.”<b>—<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)</b><i><br></i><br>LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • BRAM STOKER AWARD FINALIST • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br><br>It’s autumn in the town of Harrow, but something besides the season is changing there.<br><br>Because in that town there is an orchard, and in that orchard, seven most unusual trees. And from those trees grows a new sort of apple: strange, beautiful, with skin so red it’s nearly black.<br><br>Take a bite of one of these apples, and you will desire only to devour another. And another. You will become stronger. More vital. More <i>yourself, </i>you will believe<i>.</i> But then your appetite for the apples and their peculiar gifts will keep growing—and become darker.<br><br>This is what happens when the townsfolk discover the secret of the orchard. Soon it seems that everyone is consumed by an obsession with the magic of the apples . . . and what’s the harm, if it is making them all happier, more confident, more powerful?<br><br>Even if something else is buried in the orchard besides the seeds of these extraordinary trees: a bloody history whose roots reach back to the very origins of the town.<br><br>But now the leaves are falling. The days grow darker. It’s harvest time, and the town will soon reap what it has sown.