Katherine Silva – författare

Ghosts. Soul-eating wolves. World-consuming woods. A friendship that defies death.

Elizabeth ''Liz'' Raleigh has lost everything: her job as a police detective, her partner, her fiancé, and her peace of mind. After a month of solitude at a cabin in the woods, she finally feels as though she''s ready to move on.

But in one terrifying night, everything changes. Liz''s partner, Brody, appears in the form of a ghost. He''s one of millions that have returned to haunt their loved ones. Brody can''t remember how he died and Liz is determined to keep the secret of it buried, for it means dredging up crushing memories. Along with him comes an unearthly forest purgatory that swallows up every sign of human civilization across the world. The woods are fraught with disturbing architecture and monstrous wolves hungry for human souls. Brody says he escaped from them and that the wolves are trying to drag him and others'' ghosts back.

As winter closes in and chaos erupts across New England, Liz fights desolation, resurfacing guilt, and absolute terror as she tries to survive one of the most brutal winters she''s ever seen.

"I am losing all the little things that make me who I am..."

Brody Aritza was lost to the Wild Dark when he was killed in the line of duty. But then something happened. The thin wall between life and death parted and he found his way back, back to the woman he loved. It wasn''t right though: he was dead and she was alive and they couldn''t be together. But he found a way to fix it. He could possess others to keep her safe and maybe...maybe they could be together after all.

Orchards takes place after the shocking conclusion of THE WILD DARK. Thrust into darkness once more, Brody must sift through time and memory as he clings to what little pieces of humanity remain in his ruinous soul. This short story will leave readers hungry for THE WILD FALL: Book Two of The Wild Oblivion, coming in 2023.

On Halloween Night, Forest Ranger Hank Feld is called out to the White Mountain National Forest to search for a group of lost hikers. Crushed at not being able to spend the evening with his daughter, Hank sets off into the cold, misty mountains along side volunteer, Gerard Castle.

But they are not the only things in the woods that night. When they come upon a massacred camping site, they realize there''s something hunting them: a malevolent creature that hungers for the souls of the lost.

A novelette from The Wild Oblivion universe, readers follow one of THE WILD DARK''s characters into the woods for a ghastly adventure, one that might eventually alter the world as we know it...

Dan & Andy''s Scary-oke Holiday takes place at the last bastion in Cardend, NH: The Howling Owl Bar. Stranded by an invading forest that has surrounded their favorited watering hole, Dan and Andy spend their weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas surviving on whatever is left in the kitchen and in the kegs, contented to wait for help to arrive while kicking back.

Until they realize no one is actually coming. Outside the doors to their beloved bar, the world has turned upside down. Things that look like wolves roam the dark woods; things that are much, much hungrier...

Even stranger for the duo, it seems one of them isn''t quite the same anymore...

A dark twist for the holiday season, Dan & Andy''s Scary-oke Holiday will have you , , and grateful the only tree you have to worry about is the one you''re sprinkling tinsel on.

"A soul-stirring journey." - Clay McCleod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters

It has been ten years since the Merging, since the Woods began taking over the world, since ghosts returned to haunt their loved ones. Liz Raleigh has hidden in the New England wilderness with Hank, his daughter, Evie, and their small group, trying to eke out a small but normal life. Though Liz longs to forget the time she spent attached to her best friend and lover, Brody''s ghost, she finds herself pursued by a shadow of his former self and dreams of a life they could have lived together had he not died.

The Woods and the wolves that live inside them continue to threaten the group''s existence, looming closer every day. Liz feels drawn to them, to the feeling that deep inside the trees is a way to end the reign the Woods have over the world. What''s worse is that they seem different inside, darker and emptier than when she visited them years before.

Hope comes in the discovery of a self-sustained community, Onyx River: a place run by wind and solar power where other colonies have supposedly fled to with the opportunity to live life the way they used to. Upon arrival, however, they find the place abandoned and, after tragedy strikes, they realize this place might not be as promising as they once believed.

Both Liz and Evie will face not only their worst fears but the ones they couldn''t even imagine were lurking in the woodland oblivion.

In this sequel to Hallowed Oblivion, Hank is haunted by his experiences atop the ridge on Halloween night. Watching a group of teens be killed by something monstrous has left him with both physical and mental scars and a lingering desire to know what really happened in those woods. When his best friend, Gerard, disappears into the forest in search of the ghost of his son, Hank knows he needs to act fast and find his friend before whatever killed those kids returns to finish them both off.

Meanwhile, Gerard is obsessed with the need to know what happened to his son. Why has his ghost returned? What are these Woods that he keeps referring to? Woods that supposedly led him back to Gerard? And who are the other voices calling out from that darkness in terror that seem to need his help?

Praise for Hallowed Oblivion

"Hallowed Oblivion is the perfect spooky season read." - Wendy Dalrymple, author of White Ibis and Roser Park

"...so creative and gruesome." - Priscilla Bettis, author of Dog Meat

"I''m never going night hiking again..." - Paul, a Goodreads reviewer

Beyond the smoke-choked skies of an apocalyptic United States, a woman travels the desolate railroad tracks of a small town in search of revenge and a quiet place to settle. Her only companion is an undead fox: animated with backwoods herbal magic and the soul of a middle-aged father who died before the world fell into darkness.

Undead Folk is a short, harrowing tale of sacrifice, loss, and damnation.