I Know a Place
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"These stories are f*cking great. They rule. So read them." – Stephen King, from his introduction
There are locations in this world where the light doesn’t seem to reach. Where, no matter how illuminated the place might be, shadows creep in too strongly to fight back.
A suspiciously empty gas station rest stop in the middle of the night, littered with googley eyes... A doctor’s office, where a bottle of booze and a tear-stained folder wait on the desk... A tech millionaire’s haunted kitchen... A Bible-quoting ventriloquist’s dingy apartment... A yoga retreat in the middle of the desert, silent except for the screaming...
These locations and more are your destination and bestselling author Nat Cassidy will be your guide. Featuring the Bram Stoker Award-nominated, critically acclaimed novella Rest Stop (one of Esquire’s Best Horror Books of 2024), along with a number of other original short stories, some which have never been published before, I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours is a travelogue down twisting side streets and through alleyways where the darkness has eyes... and teeth.
Let’s hope you make it home in one piece.
• Top 10 Books of May 2026 - Library Reads
"A terrifying joy... Dripping with unrelenting dread, immersive fear, and existential terror... A singular voice, Cassidy doesn’t just know a place, he has planted a flag there, cementing his status with a collection that feels like a conversation about horror (both the feeling and the genre) between author and readers." — Library Journal, starred
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It’s honestly been quite a while since I last picked up a book that wasn’t some kind of queer love story, so this collection ended up being a really fun change of pace 🤭 I love horror as a genre, but I actually haven’t read that much horror fiction yet because I’m such a visual person and sometimes struggle to fully picture things while reading. But somehow, these stories worked incredibly well for me! The collection has a really great mix of different kinds of horror — from absurd and unsettling to genuinely brutal and psychological. Some stories definitely worked better for me than others, but overall I had SO much fun with this book 🙂↕️✨ "Rest Stop" was probably one of my favorites, mostly because the length gave the story more time to build tension and atmosphere, which worked incredibly well 🙏🏻. But I also really loved the final story in the collection because it was... kinda special Idk 💀😂 If you enjoy dark, weird, unsettling horror short stories with lots of variety, I’d definitely recommend checking this one out 👀🖤
Description
"These stories are f*cking great. They rule. So read them." – Stephen King, from his introduction
There are locations in this world where the light doesn’t seem to reach. Where, no matter how illuminated the place might be, shadows creep in too strongly to fight back.
A suspiciously empty gas station rest stop in the middle of the night, littered with googley eyes... A doctor’s office, where a bottle of booze and a tear-stained folder wait on the desk... A tech millionaire’s haunted kitchen... A Bible-quoting ventriloquist’s dingy apartment... A yoga retreat in the middle of the desert, silent except for the screaming...
These locations and more are your destination and bestselling author Nat Cassidy will be your guide. Featuring the Bram Stoker Award-nominated, critically acclaimed novella Rest Stop (one of Esquire’s Best Horror Books of 2024), along with a number of other original short stories, some which have never been published before, I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours is a travelogue down twisting side streets and through alleyways where the darkness has eyes... and teeth.
Let’s hope you make it home in one piece.
• Top 10 Books of May 2026 - Library Reads
"A terrifying joy... Dripping with unrelenting dread, immersive fear, and existential terror... A singular voice, Cassidy doesn’t just know a place, he has planted a flag there, cementing his status with a collection that feels like a conversation about horror (both the feeling and the genre) between author and readers." — Library Journal, starred
Book Information
Posts
It’s honestly been quite a while since I last picked up a book that wasn’t some kind of queer love story, so this collection ended up being a really fun change of pace 🤭 I love horror as a genre, but I actually haven’t read that much horror fiction yet because I’m such a visual person and sometimes struggle to fully picture things while reading. But somehow, these stories worked incredibly well for me! The collection has a really great mix of different kinds of horror — from absurd and unsettling to genuinely brutal and psychological. Some stories definitely worked better for me than others, but overall I had SO much fun with this book 🙂↕️✨ "Rest Stop" was probably one of my favorites, mostly because the length gave the story more time to build tension and atmosphere, which worked incredibly well 🙏🏻. But I also really loved the final story in the collection because it was... kinda special Idk 💀😂 If you enjoy dark, weird, unsettling horror short stories with lots of variety, I’d definitely recommend checking this one out 👀🖤