The door in Penrose Forest : a novel

"As a boy, Nico once accompanied his mother on a research trip to investigate a stalled migration of monarch butterflies. One night, upon hearing her sneak out of their rented cabin, he followed her to a clearing in the forest where a famed mansion once stood. Paralyzed with fear, he watched his mot...

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Main Author: Robinson, Sean David (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crooked Lane Books, 2026.
Edition:First edition.
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Summary:"As a boy, Nico once accompanied his mother on a research trip to investigate a stalled migration of monarch butterflies. One night, upon hearing her sneak out of their rented cabin, he followed her to a clearing in the forest where a famed mansion once stood. Paralyzed with fear, he watched his mother climb a staircase and vanish, along with the stairs and the strange glowing door at its peak. No one believed his story, and as he grew older, he too stopped believing it was real. As an adult, Nico returns to his hometown to care for his ailing father. But something strange is happening to the town. There are unexplained power fluctuations, people are going missing, and, reportedly, phantoms are roaming the woods. When Nico finds his mother's field journal from the week she disappeared, including her account of the vanishing staircase, he begins to pick apart the mystery. All the tangled strings trail back to the same starting point: the Gilded Age family whose mansion burned down under mysterious circumstances in those very same woods where his mother vanished."--
Physical Description:328 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9798892425964
9798892425957
Author Notes:Sean David Robinson is a native North Carolinian. His stage play, Starbright , debuted off-Broadway in 2018, winning two regional awards. In 2022, he became a member of the Novel in a Year cohort at StoryStudio Chicago, where he worked for two years on the manuscript that would become his debut. He lives in Asheville with his wife and their fur babies.