Something Is Killing the Children: Hope Is a Knife: A Novel

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"Tynion and White reveal that, yes, there is something even worse than killer demons. A small-town horror that packs a dark, nightmarish gut-punch."-Matt Kindt, New York Times bestselling author, Harvey Award-winner, and co-creator of the BRZRKR series. As a Black Mask, Erica Slaughter has a very straightforward job: find the monster, kill the monster, then do it all again. But when she arrives in Badwater, Idaho, nothing is simple. She can't determine whether the horrific killer of a twelve-year-old was a bear, a person, or something much worse. Complicating matters is the charismatic doomsday preacher who is quickly leading the small town to the verge of hysteria. If Erica wants to save the surviving children, she has to figure out which kid's fears might have summoned a monster-and fast. Erica must get to the truth before the Order and the town come to the same conclusion: to stop the monster, you have to kill the girl. Hope Is a Knife is a chilling, original tale in SIKTC lore, where monsters are real ...