The pages practically turn themselves.'- Greer Hendrick & Sarah Pekkanen, #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl, ' Imaginary Friend is an all-out, not-for-the-fainthearted horror novel, one of the most effective and ambitious of recent years. Stephen Chbosky manages to combine the heart and emotion that suffuses all of his work with Stephen King chills. '- Booklist, 'An unputdownable, extraordinary book. With its highly precocious young hero, the novel reads like a season of Stranger Things. This is my kind of Christmas novel!'- LitHub, 'This is an immersive read. 'The author of Perks of Being a Wallflower goes full Stephen King in his new supernatural thriller of epic proportions. Now, Chbosky has returned with an epic work of literary horror, years in the making, whose grand scale and rich emotion redefine the genre. Twenty years ago, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower made readers everywhere feel infinite. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a treehouse in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again. Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. It's as far off the beaten track as they can get. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with her child.

We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us. Instant New York Times Bestseller One of Fall 2019's Best Books ( People, EW, Lithub, Vox, Washington Post, and more) A young boy is haunted by a voice in his head in this acclaimed epic of literary horror from the author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

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