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Wild Spaces (2023) - WMASG - 12-18-2025
Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-of-age story in which the corrosive nature of family secrets and toxic relatives assume eldritch proportions.
An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog Teach. But when the boy’s eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain.
The longer his grandfather outstays his welcome and the greater the tension between the adults grows, the more the boy feels something within him changing — physically — into something his grandfather welcomes and his mother fears. Something abyssal. Something monstrous.
A foreboding coming-of-age story as rich and humid as the Carolina coast in which the corrosive nature of family secrets and toxic relatives assume eldritch proportions.
Quote: “Wild Spaces is an eldritch coming-of-age story done right. It's lyrical, emotionally complex, creepy, and there's not a drop of poisonous nostalgia. I loved it and I can't stop thinking about it.”
― Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club “Atmospheric, humming with menace, heartbreaking, beautifully written.”
― Glen Hirshberg, author of Infinity Dreams and the Motherless Children trilogy