Stories from the Adirondacks

The Adirondack Mountains have long held secrets in their dense forests and still waters. In these five stories, Young conjures a version of upstate New York where the wilderness is not merely backdrop but active presence, pressing against the windows of remote cabins, whispering from behind waterfalls, watching from the treeline. The mysteries here are not the sort solved by clever detectives with magnifying glasses. They are older, stranger, rooted in the land itself. A disappearance in the forest. A stranger who arrives unannounced. Something glimpsed at the edge of vision that cannot quite be named. Young writes with the unhurried pace of someone who knows that in the deep woods, time moves differently, and that some questions are better left unanswered. What emerges is a haunting portrait of a place and a state of mind, where the boundary between the natural and the uncanny grows thin. These are stories to read in a cabin, with rain on the roof, when the light begins to fade.