From the Publisher
"Too subtle to be lurid yet too spooky for comfort, this book should appeal to [fans] of psychological fiction and literary tales of the supernatural." ---Publishers Weekly
Library Journal
I've been promised that this is a really spooky novel—right down to the title, taken from the dark nursery rhyme; it's billed as Shirley Jackson meets The X-Files. The setting is Hemmersmoor, where fear creeps around every corner; four village children are about to find out what's going on. From the author of There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby—clearly, Kiesbye has a macabre turn of mind.
JANUARY 2013 - AudioFile
Sometime after WWII, the German village of Hemmersmoor is a place permeated by an unspoken evil. Legends tell of monsters and devils, but the true monsters are human, the true extent not revealed until the last story. Children who are victims of child abuse, incest, or worse go on to commit equally terrible acts on others in a cycle of violence. Narrators Alison Larkin and James Langton have the skill to make these creepy stories even creepier. Their gentle tones belie the horrors of a town seemingly lost in time. M.S. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine
