The Yellow Wood

Alexander waits in his yellow-gray house in a yellow wood for his namesake daughter, the one who “of all my children ... has always stirred me most, with love, with rage and fear, with envy and disappointment.” He has summoned her. She is his prodigal child, and she is his scion, and it’s time. Alexandra left as soon as she turned eighteen, the only way she could keep from being swallowed up by her father, her only chance of having a life of her own. Alexandra grew up with her father’s voice in her head, his will on her in one form or another. Now, though she vowed she never would, she is going back. Because his voice came into her head, ordering her home. The longer Alexandra stays with her father in her childhood home, the stronger her suspicions that his control over her is more insidious than she knew. Her siblings are all oddly under his control, exactly what he made them, and she discovers evidence of what he has planned for her. “She fled to live her own life,” Alexander observes. “As if there ever were such a thing.”

Dan Simmons

“Her writing is a cry from the very heart of darkness.”

Stephen King

“Spectacular . . .”

DLS Reviews

“Beautifully written, enchantingly delivered, and unsettlingly effective in invading your inner sanctum. This is one you’ll find quietly lingering there at the back of your mind for some time afterwards.”

About the Author

Award-winning poet, and playwright Melanie Tem has 14 published novels. Her works have won, among many accolades, the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and the World Fantasy Award. Dan Simmons called her "the literary successor to Shirley Jackson," and readers and reviewers consistently rave about her deeply involved stories.

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