I had been meaning to give Adam Nevill a try for several years, and his recent interview on Talking Scared gave me added motivation. I went with Cunning Folk for my first because it seemed firmly in my wheelhouse, and the audiobook was available from my library.

I liked it quite a bit; it's a slow-burn folk horror with very timely concerns but an old-fashioned sensibility to the prose. Some won't like the pace, the wordiness, or the evocative descriptions, but I thought they made for a nice break from the breakneck, bare-bones style of faster-paced contemporary horror.

Although Nevill takes his time building to the overtly creepy stuff, he imbues the entire novel with a palpable sense of dread that I found really effective. You know, from the second that you meet the plucky little family of three motoring toward their new life in their dilapidated house that was all they can afford, that something horrible is going to happen to them. And then it does, in ways both expected and unexpected.

Will definitely read more of Nevill's books.