--- product_id: 230319356 title: "The Hollow Places: A Novel" price: "€ 27.05" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/230319356-the-hollow-places-a-novel store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # The Hollow Places: A Novel **Price:** € 27.05 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Hollow Places: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** € 27.05 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/230319356-the-hollow-places-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Hollow Places: A Novel [Kingfisher, T.] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Hollow Places: A Novel Review: What a wonderfully creepy story! - This was an amazingly, delightfully creepy book! The older I get, the less I seem to enjoy horror books, especially the gore and guts kind of horror. I still enjoy the atmospheric, psychological horror, but I find it hard to find good book that don't repeat the same tired clichés or manage to completely botch the ending. I'm glad I picked up The Hollow Places, because this book delivered. I think the best part about it is how slowly it develops the creep factor. We start in this wonderful little museum of improbable and impossible things that might look scary and unusual, but are, most of them fake. And our protagonist is someone who grew up in that museum. Who knows every nook and cranny of that building, who played among the display cases and hugged the stuffed animals as if they were her childhood friends. To Kara, or "Carrot" how her family and friends call her, the museum is the safest place on earth. This is a refuge when her family life is shattered by a divorce. A chance to regroup and start over. And the author takes time to set the stage and introduce us to Kara and her uncle, as well as the museum itself. It's done in such a way that as a reader, I was in love with the little building as well. I was feeling warm and safe there. So when creepy and unexplained things start happen in this safe place, it completely knocks the ground from under your feet along with the protagonist. The horror of what's happening has an even bigger impact because it is intruding into this safe zone. The author also introduces the horrors of the Willows very progressively. At first, it just looks like a slightly creepy, but ultimately benign world. Yes, it's flooded. Yes, there are bunkers everywhere, but no people. Yes, the willows are strange, but they are just trees, right? As more an more bizarre things happen to our protagonists, as the level of horror slowly ramps up, so did my blood pressure. I felt for them. I felt with them, especially after the school bus and their realization that they lost their bunker, and that they are possibly stuck in this weird no-man's land forever. I loved Kara. She is funny, she is a mess, but she is so relatable. Maybe because I've been in her shoes, with a messy divorce and a husband that acted exactly the same way. Yes, Carrot was slightly too stupid to live when it came to one particular object, but I can let it slide, because I liked everything else about her. And Simon! If I had to get lost in a weird in-between place of existence with somebody, he would be my first choice. He is cool under pressure, and funny, and also relatable. And special shoutout to Beau, the bestest, most adorable cranky cat in literature. As I mentioned, the horror in this slowly builds up and finds its culmination when the safe place suddenly becomes unsafe. Unlike other horror books I've read recently, the author didn't drop the ball here. The resolution is satisfying and the ending is everything I wanted it to be. And even though our protagonist win in the end, they are left with physical and emotional scars, which is also very logical and realistic. All in all, this was a very enjoyable book. I will definitely recommend it to my friends and I will check out other books by this author. Heck, I already told my husband he absolutely needs to read it. Review: Enjoyable, scary, quick paced - This was well written, witty, funny, and, at times, down right terrifying! Portals to another world that was very unique and fascinating and dreadful. Satisfying read. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #54,523 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #79 in Horror Occult & Supernatural #301 in Supernatural Thrillers (Books) #1,630 in Suspense Thrillers | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (7,907) | | Dimensions | 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.38 inches | | ISBN-10 | 1534451129 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1534451124 | | Item Weight | 2.31 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 352 pages | | Publication date | October 6, 2020 | | Publisher | Gallery Books | ## Images ![The Hollow Places: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71voWEjqcEL.jpg) ![The Hollow Places: A Novel - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81bjtoSTOwL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What a wonderfully creepy story! *by E***E on March 29, 2022* This was an amazingly, delightfully creepy book! The older I get, the less I seem to enjoy horror books, especially the gore and guts kind of horror. I still enjoy the atmospheric, psychological horror, but I find it hard to find good book that don't repeat the same tired clichés or manage to completely botch the ending. I'm glad I picked up The Hollow Places, because this book delivered. I think the best part about it is how slowly it develops the creep factor. We start in this wonderful little museum of improbable and impossible things that might look scary and unusual, but are, most of them fake. And our protagonist is someone who grew up in that museum. Who knows every nook and cranny of that building, who played among the display cases and hugged the stuffed animals as if they were her childhood friends. To Kara, or "Carrot" how her family and friends call her, the museum is the safest place on earth. This is a refuge when her family life is shattered by a divorce. A chance to regroup and start over. And the author takes time to set the stage and introduce us to Kara and her uncle, as well as the museum itself. It's done in such a way that as a reader, I was in love with the little building as well. I was feeling warm and safe there. So when creepy and unexplained things start happen in this safe place, it completely knocks the ground from under your feet along with the protagonist. The horror of what's happening has an even bigger impact because it is intruding into this safe zone. The author also introduces the horrors of the Willows very progressively. At first, it just looks like a slightly creepy, but ultimately benign world. Yes, it's flooded. Yes, there are bunkers everywhere, but no people. Yes, the willows are strange, but they are just trees, right? As more an more bizarre things happen to our protagonists, as the level of horror slowly ramps up, so did my blood pressure. I felt for them. I felt with them, especially after the school bus and their realization that they lost their bunker, and that they are possibly stuck in this weird no-man's land forever. I loved Kara. She is funny, she is a mess, but she is so relatable. Maybe because I've been in her shoes, with a messy divorce and a husband that acted exactly the same way. Yes, Carrot was slightly too stupid to live when it came to one particular object, but I can let it slide, because I liked everything else about her. And Simon! If I had to get lost in a weird in-between place of existence with somebody, he would be my first choice. He is cool under pressure, and funny, and also relatable. And special shoutout to Beau, the bestest, most adorable cranky cat in literature. As I mentioned, the horror in this slowly builds up and finds its culmination when the safe place suddenly becomes unsafe. Unlike other horror books I've read recently, the author didn't drop the ball here. The resolution is satisfying and the ending is everything I wanted it to be. And even though our protagonist win in the end, they are left with physical and emotional scars, which is also very logical and realistic. All in all, this was a very enjoyable book. I will definitely recommend it to my friends and I will check out other books by this author. Heck, I already told my husband he absolutely needs to read it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Enjoyable, scary, quick paced *by G***T on June 14, 2025* This was well written, witty, funny, and, at times, down right terrifying! Portals to another world that was very unique and fascinating and dreadful. Satisfying read. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Too many willow roots *by V***N on March 24, 2024* It was hard to decide how to rate this novel. On the one hand, it's a wonderfully creepy story of the old-school kind, where the scariest things are the ones you can't see. On the other hand, it drags on for a frustratingly long time. The main characters' escape from the willow world takes a long enough time that it seems likely they won't escape until the end (but they do), and then it takes another really long time for them to solve the problem of the wormhole. Something about that pacing feels off. Still, this book would have merited four stars, if not for issues that swirl around mostly outside the actual story. One is the fact that this novel is basically a sequel to "The Willows," not merely inspired by a quotation or concept from it. Given that the original story is no longer in copyright, it's not a problem to write fan-fiction, but it would be more ethical to admit it outright. (I found it ironic that the main character frequently referenced her fan-fic hobby.) Another issue is the hatred that seems to periodically overflow from the author. For example, she jumped instantly to the conclusion that Lovecraft could only have found "The Willows" creepy if it had a non-white character (it doesn't). Unlike others of Kingfisher's contemporary narrators, Carrot doesn't constantly virtue-signal, but it seems as if the author herself could not resist the compulsion to make sure that everyone knows that she has *never for one moment* thought that Lovecraft was anything but a horrible human being. And every once in while, a burning hatred of "deplorables" pops up briefly in the text, like a willow root pushing through a thin boundary. I'm very glad that this is the last of Kingfisher's contemporary novels that I purchased (before reading "A House With Good Bones" and deciding that, while I adore her fantasy novels, I find the contemporary ones obnoxious). ## Frequently Bought Together - The Hollow Places: A Novel - The Twisted Ones - A House With Good Bones --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pt/products/230319356-the-hollow-places-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/230319356-the-hollow-places-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart Portugal* *Store origin: PT* *Last updated: 2026-08-23*