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The Dreadful Kindness Of Mr. Crowe
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781918589030
Publisher: Frightbound Publishing Ltd.
Published: Jul 7 2026
Pages: 782
Weight: 2.26
Height: 1.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the isolated marsh village of Ashworth-on-Mire, silence is never empty. It listens. It waits. And twelve-year-old Iris Warwick knows when something is wrong long before anyone else dares to admit it.
Iris has always seen what others cannot - truths hidden beneath polite smiles, whispers clinging to the fog, and shadows moving where no shadows should be. The villagers call her strange. Her brother Robert is angry at a world that took their father. Her mother Margaret is still living in the long echo of grief. And in a place built on buried sorrow, that grief is about to become something far worse.
When the elegant and unsettling Mr. Crowe arrives, he brings with him a terrible gift: wishes. For the desperate, the broken, and the grieving, he offers kindness in its most seductive form - the promise that pain can be undone. But every wish comes at a cost, and in Ashworth-on-Mire, the price is written in flesh, memory, and death.
As old wounds split open and the village begins to tear itself apart, Iris must confront a darkness older than the marsh itself - a darkness that feeds on longing, regret, and love twisted into desperation. Because Mr. Crowe does not simply grant what people want.
He gives them exactly what will destroy them.
Haunting, lyrical, and deeply unsettling, The Dreadful Kindness Of Mr. Crowe is a gothic folk horror novel steeped in dread, grief, and the monstrous consequences of desire. Perfect for readers who love fog-drenched villages, supernatural bargains, eerie children, and beautifully written horror that lingers long after the final page.
Some kindness is crueler than malice.
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