When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show.
When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?
Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more—Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.
Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors—because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you. And if she doesn’t face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.
From Hugo Award–winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones is a gripping, terrifying tale bound to keep you up all night—from both fear and anticipation of what happens next.
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show.
When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?
Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more—Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.
Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors—because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you. And if she doesn’t face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.
From Hugo Award–winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones is a gripping, terrifying tale bound to keep you up all night—from both fear and anticipation of what happens next.
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Award-winning dark fantasy, horror, and reimagined fairy tales have established a broad readership for speculative fiction that balances eerie folklore with pragmatic humor. The Hugo Award-winning novel Nettle & Bone stands among the most recognized adult works created under the pen name T. Kingfisher, the adults-focused moniker of author and illustrator Ursula Vernon.
Before publishing adult fiction under this name, Vernon earned widespread acclaim for her epic webcomic Digger, which won both a Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story and a Mythopoeic Award, as well as her bestselling children's series Dragonbreath and Hamster Princess.
Raised in Oregon and Arizona by an artist mother, Vernon initially studied anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota before pursuing a full-time career in writing and illustration. After living in Minnesota for ten years and later in North Carolina, she relocated to New Mexico, where she lives with her husband and his chickens. To distinguish her dark fantasy and gothic horror for mature audiences from her children's books, she adopted the pseudonym T. Kingfisher.
Kingfisher's fiction across multiple formats has earned prominent industry honors. Her short story Jackalope Wives won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and her novelette The Tomato Thief earned the Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Her adult novels and novellas have additionally won Locus, Dragon, and WSFA Small Press awards, along with nominations for the World Fantasy and Eisner awards.
Kingfisher's narrative style frequently subverts classic fairy tales, folkloric tropes, and gothic conventions by filtering them through realistic, highly practical character viewpoints. Works such as Thornhedge reframe Sleeping Beauty from an unexpected perspective, while books like Bryony and Roses, The Seventh Bride, and The Raven and the Reindeer reinterpret Beauty and the Beast, Bluebeard, and The Snow Queen. Her gothic horror novels, including What Moves the Dead and A House With Good Bones, blend unsettling atmospheres with natural history, entomology, and botanical detail.
Across her catalog, Kingfisher pairs sinister premises with dry humor, common sense, and grounded heroines. Her stories routinely feature non-traditional protagonists, reluctant heroes, and loyal animal companions navigating treacherous magical environments.
10 books in catalog
Award-winning dark fantasy, horror, and reimagined fairy tales have established a broad readership for speculative fiction that balances eerie folklore with pragmatic humor. The Hugo Award-winning novel Nettle & Bone stands among the most recognized adult works created under the pen name T. Kingfisher, the adults-focused moniker of author and illustrator Ursula Vernon.
Before publishing adult fiction under this name, Vernon earned widespread acclaim for her epic webcomic Digger, which won both a Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story and a Mythopoeic Award, as well as her bestselling children's series Dragonbreath and Hamster Princess.
Raised in Oregon and Arizona by an artist mother, Vernon initially studied anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota before pursuing a full-time career in writing and illustration. After living in Minnesota for ten years and later in North Carolina, she relocated to New Mexico, where she lives with her husband and his chickens. To distinguish her dark fantasy and gothic horror for mature audiences from her children's books, she adopted the pseudonym T. Kingfisher.
Kingfisher's fiction across multiple formats has earned prominent industry honors. Her short story Jackalope Wives won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and her novelette The Tomato Thief earned the Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Her adult novels and novellas have additionally won Locus, Dragon, and WSFA Small Press awards, along with nominations for the World Fantasy and Eisner awards.
Kingfisher's narrative style frequently subverts classic fairy tales, folkloric tropes, and gothic conventions by filtering them through realistic, highly practical character viewpoints. Works such as Thornhedge reframe Sleeping Beauty from an unexpected perspective, while books like Bryony and Roses, The Seventh Bride, and The Raven and the Reindeer reinterpret Beauty and the Beast, Bluebeard, and The Snow Queen. Her gothic horror novels, including What Moves the Dead and A House With Good Bones, blend unsettling atmospheres with natural history, entomology, and botanical detail.
Across her catalog, Kingfisher pairs sinister premises with dry humor, common sense, and grounded heroines. Her stories routinely feature non-traditional protagonists, reluctant heroes, and loyal animal companions navigating treacherous magical environments.
