The Hollow Tree
Description
From the critically acclaimed author of Hekla's Children comes a dark and haunting tale of our world and the next.
WHO DANCED WITH MARY BEFORE SHE DIED?
After her hand is amputated following a tragic accident, Rachel Cooper suffers vivid nightmares of a woman imprisoned in the trunk of a hollow tree, screaming for help. When she begins to experience phantom sensations of leaves and earth with her lost hand, Rachel is terrified she is going mad... but then another hand takes hers, and the trapped woman is pulled into our world. She has no idea who she is, but Rachel can't help but think of the mystery of Oak Mary, a female corpse found in a hollow tree, and who was never identified. Three urban legends have grown up around the case; was Mary a Nazi spy, a prostitute or a gypsy witch? Rachel is desperate to learn the truth, but darker forces are at work. For a rule has been broken, and Mary is in a world where she doesn't belong...
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- Intro
- Contents
- Also available from James Brogden and Titan Books
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Prologue
- 1: Hand of Glory
- 1: Collision
- 2: Amputation
- 3: Recovery
- 4: Home
- 5: Rehabilitation
- 6: The Devil's Coach-Horse
- 7: Prosthesis
- 8: Smoky
- 9: The Mary Oak
- 10: Infection
- 11: Gypsy Witch
- 12: The Stand-Off
- 13: Nazi Spy
- 14: The Mirror Box
- 15: Whore
- 16: Nightmares
- 2: Her Strong Enchantments
- 17: The Hospital
- 18: The Monument
- 19: Annabel
- 20: The Sight
- 21: Telling Tom
- 22: Noz
- 23: Static
- 24: Attack
- 25: Aftermath
- 26: Eline
- 27: The Hive
- 28: Fire
- 29: Asylum
- 30: The Small Man's Prize
- 3: The Umbra
- 31: Near Death
- 32: Ghosts
- 33: Liaison
- 34: Gigi
- 35: The Tale of Black Meg
- 36: Shuffling Off
- 37: Unreal City
- 38: Appetites
- 39: Queen of Air and Darkness
- 40: Beatrice
- 41: The Hollow Tree
- 42: Cats for You
- After
- Afterword & Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Also Available from Titan Books
