The Changeling

I don't read much horror these days unless it falls under the guise of fantasy, which it sometimes does. This book was such a horror/fantasy and it was terrific. It was nominated for a slew of awards in both horror and fantasy, winning the 2018 Locus Award for Horror, August Derleth (British Fantasy) Award, and World Fantasy Award. It's about changelings, children that are stolen from their parents by faeries or other mythical creatures and replaced by something that looks like the child but isn't. In the modern world, a mother claiming this would be diagnosed as having severe post-partum depression or the child diagnosed with some behavioral problem. And that's what we find in this modern changeling tale until the mythical is found to be factual.

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