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The Ghost Tree
A Horror Novel by Christina Henry
Subgenres:
- Small Town Horror,
- Supernatural Horror,
- Folklore Horror
This book is for you if you're into...
- Small towns haunted by brutal secrets and supernatural bargains
- Dark folklore with dangerous fae and eerie woodland vibes
- Teen protagonists confronting ancient, unsettling forces
From Little Stack
If you like your fantasy dark, eerie, and dripping with old-world folklore, The Ghost Tree is a deliciously unsettling read.
Christina Henry drops you into a seemingly ordinary small town haunted by a brutal past, where teenage Lauren starts digging into a string of disappearances, and quickly realises something ancient and monstrous lurks in the woods. As she uncovers the town’s secrets, the story leans heavily into fairytale-style folklore and the chilling idea of communities bound by supernatural bargains.
What makes the book feel especially Irish-inspired is its embrace of darker fae traditions, the kind rooted in Celtic folklore, where fairy beings aren’t cute or helpful but dangerous, capricious, and tied to the land itself. The eerie woodland atmosphere, the sense of old magic demanding sacrifice, and the creeping feeling that nature remembers every wrong all echo classic Irish fairy lore.
It’s moody, unsettling, and packed with that delicious sense that something ancient is watching just beyond the trees.
When people go missing in the sleepy town of Smith's Hollow, the only clue to their fate comes when a teenager starts having terrifying visions, in a chilling horror novel from national bestselling author Christina Henry.
When the bodies of two girls are found torn apart in the town of Smiths Hollow, Lauren is surprised, but she also expects that the police won't find the killer. After all, the year before her father's body was found with his heart missing, and since then everyone has moved on. Even her best friend, Miranda, has become more interested in boys than in spending time at the old ghost tree, the way they used to when they were kids.
So when Lauren has a vision of a monster dragging the remains of the girls through the woods, she knows she can't just do nothing. Not like the rest of her town. But as she draws closer to answers, she realizes that the foundation of her seemingly normal town might be rotten at the center. And that if nobody else stands for the missing, she will.
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