Marc E. Fitch is the author of the novels Old Boone Blood,
Paradise Burns and Dirty Water, as well as the books Paranormal
Nation: Why America Needs Ghosts, UFOs and Bigfoot and Shmexperts:
How Power Politics and Ideology are Disguised as Science. His short
fiction has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies,
including Best Horror of the Year vol 10.
Marc received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Western
Connecticut State University and has worked as a bartender,
psychiatric technician for in-patient behavioral health hospitals,
and most recently as an investigative reporter for a public-policy
organization. He was the recipient of the 2014 Robert Novak
Journalism Fellowship and the Leslie Leeds Poetry Prize. He is the
father of four children and lives and works in Connecticut.
"This is a harrowing and intense psychological horror novel for
fans of Peter Straub, Jac Jemc, and Ania Ahlborn."
“I doubt I will read many better horror novels in 2020. Boy in the
Box was a complete triumph and deserves to be very widely read,
even beyond the horror genre.”
“Reminiscent of Neville’s The Ritual (2011), Fitch’s journey into
the dark unknowns of ancient forests builds at a measured pace,
pushing you forward in slow-building horror that exhibits all the
stamina of a hike out into the woods.”
"This is one of those books the reader should never start if night
is coming on and he’s alone in the house."
"This is an outstanding horror story where the sense of deep dread
slowly tightens around the reader like slow strangulation.
Unmissable."
*Horror DNA*
"A creepy, mesmerizing tale of hunters becoming the hunted, Box In
The Box is a haunting journey into the evils that lurk in the
wilderness, as well as those buried in the human heart. Fitch
definitely has a knack for mixing the paranormal with both brutal
reality and the emotional heaviness of grief and sorrow."
*Morgan Sylvia, author of Abode.*
“Boy in the Box is both tragedy and ghost story, a theater ticket
to watch actors on stage deliberately pushed inch by inch toward
madness. Fitch menaces the reader by reminding us that our most
valued possessions — our marriages, our children, our families —
are frail and impermanent.”
*Jackson Kuhl, author of A Season of Whispers.*
“This is what true horror is meant to be, quiet and thoughtful, an
eerie sense of something lurking just ahead in your path with no
way of escape; BOY IN THE BOX by Marc E. Fitch is the haunting
guilt that reminds us mistakes from the past can return at any
time, and in the worst of ways."
*Eric J. Guignard, award-winning author and editor, including That
Which Grows Wild and A World of Horror*
“Boy in the Box is a heart-stopping tale that will keep you up at
night because every turn of the page is heavy with anticipation and
suspense. Marc Fitch drops the reader into a world in which past
sins echo into the present and the search for inner calm involves a
treacherous climb through mountains that have a long memory. This
is a story you won’t forget.”
*J.J. Hensley - award-winning author of Resolve, Record Scratch,
and Forgiveness Dies*
“Marc E. Fitch’s excellent novel, Boy in the Box, is like taking a
sideways glance at the normal world and seeing the nightmares that
sneak in from the periphery. A tale of ordinary lives sent
spiraling out of control—in this case as the result of an incident
involving friends on a hunting trip—Fitch creates a moody, muscular
read that holds on with white knuckles until the last page. A book
to be read and read again."
*Gregory L. Norris, author of The Day After Tomorrow: Into Infinity
and The Day After Tomorrow: Planetfall*
“Late in Marc Fitch’s book Boy in the Box, the protagonist says, “I
don’t think we know what we’re dealing with here,” and so we head
fearfully into the final 100 pages or so of a skillful exercise in
horror one can’t help but compare to a masterpiece of the genre,
Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows.” Fitch’s guilt-ridden trio
marches into a wilderness possessing danger they don’t properly
fear until, of course, it’s well too late. The novel begins with a
tip-toeing dread and builds at a measured pace to a jog and then a
run as the protagonists’ attempts to right a wrong from the past
open the floodgates to mind-wrenching horror. Fitch’s prose is
concise and glues the reader’s attention in a manner making it
difficult to put the book down until it’s dismal conclusion. This
is solid reading for fans of the genre and would certainly make for
a nice introduction for those wandering into this particular forest
for the very first time.”
*Alec Cizak, editor, and author of Lake County Incidents, Breaking
Glass and Manifesto Destination*
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