Evil doesn't die. It waits.
His grandmother was locked away for three murders.
His parents were killed in a bizarre accident.
And something ancient has come looking for Finn.
It's 1976. Fifteen-year-old Finn and his autistic sister are sent to live with their alcoholic uncle Charlie. Still reeling from his parents' deaths, Finn finds himself an outsider at school and increasingly responsible for a sister who needs more care than their uncle can provide.
Then Finn experiences things that seem impossible. Unsettling visions. Improbable friendships. Impulses he can't explain.
Desperate for answers, Finn begins piecing together the story of his dead grandmother, confined to an asylum nearly fifty years earlier. The more he learns about his family's past, the less he trusts his own perceptions.
Something is changing within him, and he has no idea how to stop it.
But the changes taking hold of Finn have roots far older than his family's troubled history—roots that reach back to the old gods and dark beliefs of ancient Ireland.
Something has been waiting for Finn.
Waiting for him to become what it needs.
And it has been waiting a very long time.
For readers of atmospheric folk horror, dark Celtic mythology, and slow-burning supernatural dread, And Then There Comes the Crooked One is a haunting tale of family secrets, ancient evil, and the terrifying things we inherit.
