She differs from Lovecraft in that she has a rollicking sense of humor and believes in the power of love. In this, Kingfisher, the author of The Twisted Ones and Dragonbreath, is much like H.P. Kingfisher’s superpower is her ability to describe things that cannot possibly be, things that can’t be there but are-things that the human mind can’t wrap itself around. Then, as is the case whenever something really creepy comes into an already creepy museum, strange things start to happen. But like everything else, she inventories it and puts it somewhere among the oddments. Fans frequently send objects to Earl, and one day an item that Kara finds especially sinister arrives. There are statues of Bigfoot and Mothman, a Feejee mermaid and all manner of sad, taxidermied animals, including an eight-foot-long giant river otter. The objects in Earl’s museum are what you’d expect. Next door to the museum is the Black Hen, a coffee shop whose barista, a nutty and lovable chap named Simon, may have eaten his twin in the womb. Settled in the back room of his museum of strange objects, Kara can live rent-free as long as she helps him categorize his oddities. After her divorce, a graphic artist named Kara goes to live with her gentle and eccentric Uncle Earl (he calls her Carrot). The Hollow Places is one of the most terrifying books you’ll ever read.
Kingfisher’s novel The Hollow Places, I have one thing to say to Stephen King: Steve-o, you’ve got some stiff competition.
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