The Chill by Scott Carson

 

On the one hand, one of your standard types of Horror novel: Ghost or Bad Place, mostly, with just a little bit of Human Hubris thrown in, maybe a whiff of Ancient Evil woven in. On the other hand, it's well-executed, and the characters manage mostly to come across like people, even when some Old Thing is bending them back and forth like a paper clip. Pretty straightforward, if you know the genre, which can be fine if that's what you want. There's an interesting theme that family and/or tradition is, if not the problem here, then like the problem's mechanism of action, which is an interesting and kinda surprising take for a Horror novel that addresses tensions between rural folkways and urban science.