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Knock Knock, Open Wide
Knock Knock, Open Wide | Neil Sharpson
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Knock Knock, Open Wide weaves horror and Celtic myth into a terrifying, heartbreaking supernatural tale of fractured family bonds, the secrets we carry, and the veiled forces that guide Irish life. Driving home late one night, Etain Larkin finds a corpse on a pitch-black country road deep in the Irish countryside. She takes the corpse to a remote farmhouse. So begins a night of unspeakable horror that will take her to the very brink of sanity. She will never speak of it again. Two decades later, Betty Fitzpatrick, newly arrived at college in Dublin, has already fallen in love with the drama society, and the beautiful but troubled Ashling Mallen. As their relationship blossoms, Ashling goes to great lengths to keep Betty away from her family, especially her alcoholic mother, Etain. As their relationship blossoms, Betty learns her lover's terrifying family history, and Ashling's secret obsession. Ashling has become convinced that the horrors inflicted on her family are connected to a seemingly innocent children's TV show. Everyone in Ireland watched this show in their youth, but Ash soon discovers that no one remembers it quite the same way. And only Ashling seems to remember its star: a small black goat puppet who lives in a box and only comes out if you dont behave. They say hes never come out. Almost never. When the door between the known and unknown opens, it can never close again.
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CloakNQuill
Knock Knock, Open Wide | Neil Sharpson
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@RosePressedPages these look amazing! Look at that cover of Knock Knock 😱 the journal is absolutely beautiful. The candle and tea both smell savoringly intoxicating. Couldn‘t ask for better. I am using the witch mug for my morning coffee atm 💕 thank you!!!

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AmandaBlaze
Knock Knock, Open Wide | Neil Sharpson
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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
Knock Knock, Open Wide | Neil Sharpson
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Alternately creepy as fuck horror and fun 2000s sapphic romance. I loved the integration of Irish folklore and the slice of life details from Dublin university life and the student theatre society. I found both modes equally compelling and was thrilled when they came together. The book's setup is a young woman finds a corpse on a dark road at midnight, thus begins her night of horrors that stretches into her children's lives decades later.

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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
Knock Knock, Open Wide | Neil Sharpson
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The Irish folklore in this book is so interesting! Someone just experienced "hungry grass," which is when you step on a patch of grass where someone died of starvation in the Great Famine and you feel what they felt before they passed away! ?

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