Darker Days

No one builds agonizing tension like Thomas Olde Heuvelt. Darker Days is his best yet - a terrible sacrificial offering that doesn’t reveal its shocking nature until the very last page.

CATRIONA WARD, author of The Last House on Needless Street

What price would you pay for a life of privilege? Darker Days is a new take on the Faustian bargain completely in keeping with our new age of greed and entitlement, with a twist at the end you won't see coming. This is Olde Heuvelt at the height of his powers.

ALMA KATSU, author of The Hunger

There are days where I can't help but wonder if Thomas Olde Heuvelt made a deal with the devil. His writing is so completely captivating, his forged worlds so engrossing and expansive, there has to be some soul-selling afoot. Darker Days is his Dr. Faustus on the grandest of scales, which makes Olde Heuvelt our modern day Marlowe.

CLAY McLEOD-CHAPMAN, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

Thomas Olde Heuvelt is back with another wicked, fascinating, chilling tale, expertly balancing the supernatural with the horrors inherent in human nature. Darker Days reinforces that Olde Heuvelt is one of the most vital and exciting voices in modern horror.

MIKE FLANAGAN, director of ‘Dr. Sleep’ and ‘The Haunting of Hill House’

‘Darker Days begins on an uncomfortably grim and mysterious note. Olde Heuvelt increases the dread and tension over the course of this labyrinthine and distressing novel until the pressure is almost unbearable. There’s a distinctly unpleasant current of inevitability coursing beneath every page of this genuinely distressing work—the inevitability of ritual, retribution, sacrifice, and death. This is a daring and uncompromising jewel of horror fiction. Reminiscent of the flawless work of Stephen King, Michael McDowell, and Robert R. McCammon, but still completely its own singular and disturbing vision.’

ERIC LaROCCA, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

Darker Days is a novel of reckoning, calculating the balance between what you want and what it will cost, and a meditation on unthinkable bargains. An ingeniously constructed chronicle of fear from a master storyteller.

A. G. SLATTER, author of The Crimson Road

The devilish genius behind Hex brings us a new collision of sly suburban satire and devastating folkloric nightmare . . . the perfect read for fans of Shirley Jackson, Sarah Langan, and stories you wanna read from behind your fingers, as if that’ll somehow keep you safe from the escalating darkness.

NAT CASSIDY, author of Mary and When the Wolf Comes Home

Darker Days is a classic horror story, but its deal-with-the-devil couldn’t be more timely. With a beautifully-rendered, struggling family and a murderous pact at its core, the suspense is killer, and the central question – what are you willing to do in exchange for your own comfort and happiness – is chilling and deeply disturbing. This one will haunt me.

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN, author of Road of Bones and The Night Birds ???????