If You Go Down to the Woods: Book 1

Seth C. Adams

Apr 2018 · Sold by HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

A powerful and emotional debut thriller perfect for fans of It by Stephen King, The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor and the TV show Stranger Things.

SOMETHING IS HIDING IN THE SHADOWS...

We were so young when it all happened. Just 13-years-old, making the most of the long, hot, lazy days of summer, thinking we had the world at our feet. That was us – me, Fat Bobby, Jim and Tara – the four members of the Outsiders’ Club.

The day we found a burnt-out car in the woods was the day everything changed. Cold, hard cash in the front seat and a body in the trunk... it started out as a mystery we were desperate to solve.

Then, the Collector arrived. He knew we had found his secret. And suddenly, our summer of innocence turned into the stuff of nightmares.

Nothing would ever be the same again...

‘An atmospheric, gritty page-turner’ Alex Lake, author of After Anna

‘I went through every emotion reading this novel’ Sam Carrington, author of Saving Sophie

‘Chilling and absorbing’ Phoebe Morgan, author of The Doll House

Ratings and reviews

One summer in the life of Joe, Bobby, Jim, and Tara ..and later Sara, will remain with them forever. They named themselves the Outsiders' Club. Not much to do in this small town in Arizona, Joe spies something and convinces his new friends to go exploring. And what a find! A Buick ... on a back road. The car obviously had been there forever and a day. Locked, covered with forest growth, was a mystery that had them all excited. When they finally got a door open, what they find is a fortune in cash.. all neatly bundled, all just sitting there for the taking. But it was what they found in the trunk that had them scared. And when the man known as The Collector came along, the kids were absolutely terrified. They would all have nightmares for a very long time..... Think STAND BY ME, Stephen King's IT, THE CLIENT .... this book brought these all to mind. It contained elements of all these movies. It was still a good read .. just not terribly original. The characters were alright, but my favorite of all is Bandit, the 4-legged Outsider that saved the day time and time again. It's a short read, but entertaining all the same. Many thanks to the author / Harper Impulse - Killer reads / Netgalley for the advanced digital copy of this adventure. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

Very good

About the author

Raised on Marvel comics, horror fiction, The Twilight Zone, and other genre entertainment unsuitable for an impressionable young mind, Seth C. Adams knew he wanted to tell stories at a young age. With a Bachelor's in anthropology from the University of California, Riverside, and completing his Master's in North American History at Arizona State University, as an adult he's learned that real life is indeed often stranger–and more frightening–than fiction. He currently splits his time between California and Arizona, and is always working on, or thinking about, his next story.