When The Night Comes Knocking by Katherine Daniel
Publisher: Berkley Publishing / Penguin Random House
Publication Date: October 20, 2026
Format: Hardcover - 304 pages
Audiobook - 9 Hours 14 Minutes
Kindle - 302 pages
Nook - 304 pages
ISBN (Hardcover): 979-8217191338
ASIN (Audiobook): B0GM4TDYVJ
ASIN (Kindle): B0GHVB81HL
BNID (Nook): 979-8217191352
Genre: Horror
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Disclaimer: I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. I also purchased a hardcover edition from my Book Of The Month (BOTM) monthly subscription.
Book Description:
In this Appalachian horror novel, two estranged siblings become trapped in a convenience store under attack by a monster from the mountains who feasts on guilty hearts.
Rattle, rattle in the dark…
The mountain’s bones seek out a heart.
Jane has not spoken to her brother Thomas since the accident that nearly killed them both. Their drive from college through the North Georgia mountains is uncomfortably silent, until they stop at a roadside convenience store, where a man stumbles in with a mutilated body, claiming to have been attacked by a monster.
At first, no one believes the man’s ravings, but when the next person to leave the store is brutally killed, they fear that local legend might be
There’s a beast in these mountains who feasts on guilty hearts… and someone among them has lured it out of hiding.
Jane and Thomas each harbor secrets, but so do the other patrons, and as the monster claims more hearts, the survivors turn on each other, desperate to save themselves by uncovering the guiltiest among them.
If the siblings can’t overcome the rift between them, they’ll surely become the monster’s next victims…or worse, become monsters themselves.
My Book Review:
In the debut novel, When The Night Comes Knocking, author Katherine Daniel weaves a riveting horror story that easily draws the reader into a dark storyline that follows a group of people who are trapped in an Appalachian roadside convenience store by a monster who seeks to feast on people's guilty hearts.
Set in the North Georgia Appalachian Mountains, local folklore tells of a spirit who was trapped inside Blood Mountain and has become cursed and seeks out the scent of people and feasts on their guilty hearts.
Set in the North Georgia Appalachian Mountains, local folklore tells of a spirit who was trapped inside Blood Mountain and has become cursed and seeks out the scent of people and feasts on their guilty hearts.
Estranged siblings Jane and Thomas Wilson were travelling to their family's rented cabin on Blood Mountain for Thanksgiving. They stop along the way at a roadside convenience store and unsuspectingly the customers become under attack by an eerie monster who has been lured to the store by one of their guilty hearts. As the night plays out and the monster claims it's victims, the local folklore is retold and all of them wonder if the guilt they hold inside is what lured the monster to their door. How will the attack on their lives unfold When The Night Comes Knocking?
When The Night Comes Knocking is an intense and eerie horror tale that is rich in detail and vivid descriptions. The dark intensity of the storyline and the complexity of the monster that seeks out guilty hearts to feast on kept me thoroughly riveted, engrossed, and shocked as each of the people wonder if it's their own guilty pasts that have lured the bloody heart seeking monster to the store's door. I am not one who usually likes horror books or movies, but the intensity of this dark tale had me holding my breath and my pulse quickening as the night played out. This is a scary-good story that is just right for the month of October, so don't pass it by!
The author does a phenomenal job of transporting the reader into this fast-paced white-knuckle storyline with her creative interweaving of a psychological cat-n-mouse game that keeps the reader turning the pages until the shocking ending.
When The Night Comes Knocking is an eerie horror story that will captivate the reader, it doesn't get any better than that!
RATING: 4 STARS
When The Night Comes Knocking is an eerie horror story that will captivate the reader, it doesn't get any better than that!
RATING: 4 STARS
About The Author
Katherine Daniel is a fiction writer based in Atlanta, Georgia, where she loves to explore the dark and twisty parts of what it means to be human through storytelling. She received a bachelor’s degree in English and creative writing from Georgia State University and is represented by Cheyenne Faircloth of Handspun Literary Agency. Her debut horror novel When the Night Comes Knocking is being published by Penguin Random House on October 20th, 2026.
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