I enjoyed this story a lot, it reminded me of old ghost stories from the Victorian era. Reading it kind of made me feel haunted in a sense, the dark woods, researching old papers, characters with tragedies and troubles. It's a solid haunting type story.

Posted on February 26, 2018 by cayocosta72
In the Night Wood by Dale Bailey. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Ever since he was a child and stumbled upon a strange and frightening fairy tale in his family library, Charles Hayden has been fascinated by In the Night Wood and its elusive author. In college, he meets and falls in love with a woman who is Hollow’s many times removed relative. Years later, the couple has married and suffered the incalculable loss of their young daughter when they get word that they have inherited Hollow’s crumbling estate in England. Hoping for a fresh start, the couple heads to England, only to be reminded again and again of what they have lost. And local children have gone missing, all bearing a resemblance to Charles’s dead child. Is the wood surrounding the estate really haunted? Or is something else happening to the local children? This Gothic story is written is some of the most beautiful language I have ever read. I would often pause just to savor a sentence or a phrase. Highly recommended for both its beauty and its menace