Given what’s going on with the world, you might think this would be a bad time to offer sanctuary to a stranger, even if they have a child with them.
But that’s exactly what Charlie does in Christopher Golden’s new folk horror thriller novel The Night Birds (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
And yeah, it ends up being a bad time. It’s a horror novel; not a warm and fuzzy novel.
In the following email interview, Golden discusses what inspired and influenced this horror story.
As someone who was a little kid in the ’70s, and not the ’00s or the ’20s, some of my fondest Halloween memories are going out for hours, and unsupervised.
That is, until I saw the movie Halloween; since then, my fondest Halloween memories are me hiding under my bed.
I suspect the same may have also happened if I had read Christopher Golden’s horror / suburban drama novel All Hallows…which would’ve been a neat trick given how it originally came out in 2023.
With All Hallows newly available in paperback (and still available in hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook), I crawled out from under my bed long enough to send Mr. Golden some questions about what inspired and influenced this scary story.