The Girl in Corn

Written by Jason Offutt

Narrated by Josh Bloomberg

Sometimes beauty belongs in darkness.

Fairies don’t exist. At least that’s what Thomas Cavanaugh’s parents say. But the events that one night, when he follows a fairy into the cornfield on his parents’ farm, prove them wrong. What seems like a destructive explosion was, Thomas knows, an encounter with the Empty that threatens to destroy the fairie’s world?and his sanity. Years later, after a troubled childhood and a series of dead-end jobs, he is still haunted by what he saw that night. One day he crosses paths with the beautiful young woman and the troubled young man he first met as a kid while under psychiatric care after his encounters in the cornfield. Has fate brought them together? Are they meant to join forces to save the fairie’s world and their own? Or is one of them not who they claim to be?

• Language: English
• Publisher: CamCat Publishing
• Release date: Jan 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9780744304589

Jason Offutt

Jason Offutt (Maryville, Missouri) teaches journalism at Northwest Missouri State University. He's the author of four previous books on paranormal topics, including Haunted Missouriand Paranormal Missouri (Schiffer), in addition to several novels. He has been interviewed on Whitley Strieber's Dreamland, Destination America, Binnall of America, Darkness Radio, The Paracast, and other prominent paranormal podcasts.  

Reviews for The Girl in Corn

[carol420 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The story follows Thomas, a young kid living on a farm. Within only a few pages he meets a fairy-like creature in the family cornfield and from there we’re off and running. It’s hard to really say much more of the events that follow without running into some serious spoilers. We get an apocalyptic doom approaching, a well-done antagonist and a complicated love interest. Thomas was an easily likeable character, one you root for but also annoys you slightly, which I found worked really well. It was great to see how others around our main character saw glimmers and slices of approaching doom and how its tendrils really slinked out and grabbed ahold of them. There were a few parts that came off a bit under-whelming and under-described or merely glossed over. For example, the character of Bobby when we first meet him. The entire scene is slightly more than odd. Bobby and his parents go camping. He meets a boy, and the boy touches him inappropriately and just like that we have pages of massive violence. The cops arrive and Bobby tells them what happened but truthfully, not as much detail is given as the scene would indicate should have happened. It just seemed a bit deflating. The book's psychological elements are great, and you get sucked along and drawn right in. The author has done a great job of taking a seemingly basic idea and building on it. At the end I have to say that this was a really fun, but brutal book, with lots of twists and turns.

[thepageladies · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Quite a surprise came from reading this book! I honestly thought when I first started that I was going to be reading a YA horror book but I was absolutely wrong and in such a delightful way! It's a wonderful blend of horror, the end of the world and fantasy! Strong and engaging storyline! Fantastic writing! Really a wonderful read for any horror fans!

Thank you Black Coffee Book Tours and Jason Offutt for sharing this fabulous book with me!

[sucharita1986 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

If you want to start your year with a good psychological horror, then the book The Girl in the Corn by Jason Offutt would be the best book to start with. With a hellishly creepy and disturbing plot, the book sets itself apart from other horror novels. An amazing start and climax makes it more riveting. The plot hooks you up from the beginning and grips to the end. Although I felt that the plot is going somewhere else in the middle, but soon it was on its track. I would say, a good way to start 2022.Definitely, I would award 4 stars to the book. Thanks to Edelweiss for providing me an opportunity to read and review the book.