Black River Orchard is one of 2023's most rewarding horror books, a distinctly American story told via that fruit of Biblical sin, the apple.
Research is a tricky thing in fiction, particularly when it comes to genre stories. Lean on it too hard and the subject of your fascination, all your digging, can start to make the book feel like a lecture. Pull away from it too much, and the reader can be left feeling like they’re in unsteady hands, following a storyteller who’s not just making up the narrative as they go along, but glancing over the details of the world they’re trying to build.
In the small town of Harrow, Dan Paxson is primed to turn his family’s fortunes around. With a small orchard of just seven apple trees, Dan believes he’s raised up the perfect fruit, a beautiful, addictive apple his daughter Calla has named “The Ruby Slipper.” Soon, the whole town is talking about Dan’s apple crop, buying up Ruby Slippers by the bag, turning Dan’s long trend of family suffering into fortune seemingly overnight.
But the Ruby Slipper’s history, as well as its cultivation, brings more than new flavor to Harrow. As the residents of the town start to experience new bounty and beauty to rival the orchard itself, dark secrets emerge, secrets that only a woman who just arrived in town, and an apple hunter with a dark past named John Compass, seem primed to unearth. Something strange is happening out in that orchard, and it’s got very deep, very dark roots.
There are a lot of agricultural metaphors in this review, not just because the book is about an orchard, but because Wendig’s approach to weaving a dread-filled folk-horror web about magic apples is so immersive that you’ll come away from it wanting to plant an orchard of your own.
But as with the story of the orchard itself, something deeper and darker lurks in these pages, something that imbueswith an added layer of complex, simmering bite. The horror that Wendig unspools in these pages is a rich tapestry of folk horror with notes of body horror and historical horror for good measure, and beneath all the memorable images of terror lurks something even stranger, more universal, and more frightening.
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