The Red Tree

I wanted to slowly savor this book, but I was unable to resist the siren call of its possibly unreliable narrators. A story within a story within a story, The Red Tree is Kiernan's most complete and extraordinary novel so far. It reaches outwards, ignoring the boundaries of genre and convention to present something thoroughly modern with deep roots. She makes old horrors new, and evokes the gloomy mythos of New England with spare, almost brutal language. The story is so unnerving that I wonder if I will ever take a walk in the woods for granted again.

Seriously - go get this book.