The Root Witch

A Horror Novel by Debra Castaneda

Book 2 of the Dark Earth Rising Series

Subgenres:

1980s,
Utah,
Folk Horror,
Urban Legend,
Found Footage

Published 2022

Length 262 pages

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Urban legends that bleed into real life horror
Creepy forests with sinister reputations and missing people
Newsroom drama colliding with supernatural investigations

Publisher Description

A beautiful forest. A terrifying legend.

It's 1986. Two strangers, hundreds of miles apart, grapple with disturbing incidents in a one-of-a-kind quaking aspen forest.

Knox is a new Forest Service ranger assigned to a vast, remote territory in Utah. Sandy is a producer fighting for her place in a tough TV newsroom.

Both have heard about the shadowy figure believed to menace visitors to the forest. When a man disappears and reports of the Root Witch begin coming in, Knox and Sandy are plunged into a living nightmare.

Their lives converge on Halloween. Sandy sends a news crew to investigate the sightings. But when the team goes missing, and a shocking video surfaces revealing the ghastly truth, Knox and Sandy face the biggest decision of their lives.

This novel is based on a short story, "The Root Witch: An Urban Legend Caught on Tape."

Content warning: Animal death; anxiety; profanity

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