Anathema (The Eating Woods)

Anathema (The Eating Woods)

Author: Keri Lake Listening Length: 20h 13m

From the author of Nocticadia comes a spellbinding gothic dark fantasy about a shunned woman who is forced beyond the mortal realms forbidden boundary, into a terrifying world of cursed souls and grotesque creatures. Only the banished know what lies beyond the woods There are whispers about what lurks in Witch Knell—t...

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Chapter 21

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

MAEVYTH

O n a quiet click, I opened the door to the shed and peered inside the open, dark space. A grotesque, squelching sound arose from somewhere toward the back, and I frowned, searching for Raivox in the dark. Padding quietly toward the center of the shed, I followed that horrible noise, peering through the dim light for anything that moved.

Along the east wall, a stack of pine boxes, built by Uncle Riftyn, sat waiting for the bodies stored in the morgue. How fortunate for Agatha, that both sons happened to be skilled in carpentry–one of wood, and the other of bodies.