{"id":31984,"date":"2024-04-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=31984"},"modified":"2024-02-19T15:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T21:07:04","slug":"review-horror-it-waits-in-the-woods-by-josh-malerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=31984","title":{"rendered":"#Review #Horror &#8211; It Waits In The Woods by Josh Malerman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/51L4yaVQHrL._SY445_SX342_.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"296\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/51L4yaVQHrL._SY445_SX342_.jpg?resize=296%2C445&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/51L4yaVQHrL._SY445_SX342_.jpg?w=296 296w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/51L4yaVQHrL._SY445_SX342_.jpg?resize=200%2C300 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls her into the woods in a spine-tingling short story by the bestselling author of&nbsp;<em>Bird Box<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The dense Michigan forest. Haunting wails. The clip-clop of demon hooves on a bridge to nowhere. It\u2019s more than a tall tale to Brenda Jennings, whose sister disappeared in those woods one fateful night. Three years later, on a solo stakeout in the dark, Brenda goes in after her. She\u2019s desperate for answers, and terrified to find what lies waiting on the other side of that bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Josh Malerman\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>It Waits in the Woods<em>&nbsp;is part of&nbsp;<\/em>Creature Feature<em>, a collection of devilishly creepy stories that tingle the spine and twist the mind. They can be read or listened to in one petrifying sitting.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jo.jpg?resize=474%2C158\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25379\" style=\"width:409px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jo.jpg?w=900 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jo.jpg?resize=300%2C100 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jo.jpg?resize=768%2C256 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This one was my favourite so far of the Creature Feature Collection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opso is the thing in the woods but like most legends, you get people who believe it&#8217;s real and those who don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brenda&#8217;s sister Amanda went missing years before and Brenda is determined to figure out what happened to her. She doesn&#8217;t tell anyone and goes off on her own to try and find her sister but what she finds, goes far beyond her worst nightmare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this story is short, it packs a spine tingling punch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I always enjoy stories with a creature, monster, something that isn&#8217;t &#8220;normal&#8221; and this one is no different.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Available in Kindle Unlimited &#8211; <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4bMhJnR\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/4bMhJnR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls her into the woods in a spine-tingling short story by the bestselling author of&nbsp;Bird Box. The dense Michigan forest. Haunting wails. The clip-clop of demon hooves on a bridge to nowhere. It\u2019s more than a tall tale to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=31984\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#Review #Horror &#8211; It Waits In The Woods by Josh Malerman<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1029,437],"tags":[1685],"class_list":["post-31984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-standalone","tag-josh-malerman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-8jS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31984"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32053,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31984\/revisions\/32053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}