A pile of books is just a pile of books. Until it isn't. Until it becomes more than the sum of its parts — until it meets a needful reader.
Timmy McFarland just wants to be left alone with his books. But a curbside box of impossible paperbacks — and an even more impossible old bookseller named Conroy — pulls him toward a hidden world where knowledge has consequences and stories do not always stay on the page.
At home, Timmy has learned that some dangers are easier to recognize than others. Elsewhere, Detective Anne De Bakey is following a trail of disappearances that keeps circling back toward an old house, a buried history, and people whose stories refuse to fit together.
As those mysteries begin to converge, Timmy discovers that knowing something can be both a weapon and a wound — and that some books may be waiting for exactly the right reader. A Monster of Knowledge is a story about the double edge of knowledge: it can save you, and it can cut you to the bone.
A Monster of Knowledge is a genre-blending novel of domestic horror and dark magical realism, for readers of literary horror unafraid of difficult subject matter.