In the summer of 1844, Tom Lyman flees to Bonaventure, a transcendentalist farming cooperative tucked away in eastern Connecticut, to hide from his past. There Lyman must adjust to a new life among idealists, under the fatherly eye of the group’s founder, David Grosvenor. When he isn’t ducking work or the questions of the eccentric residents, Lyman occupies himself by courting Grosvenor’s daughter Minerva.

But Bonaventure isn’t as utopian as it seems. One by one, Lyman’s secrets begin to catch up with him, and Bonaventure has a few secrets of its own. Why did the farm have an ominous reputation long before Grosvenor bought it? What caused the previous tenants to vanish? And who is whispering to him through the walls of the old stone house?

At Bonaventure, Lyman soon learns that some deaths go unnoticed.

 

 

 

 

Praise for A Season of Whispers

“A slim but delightful tale of terror set in transcendentalist New England.” — Kirkus Reviews

“A unique story from a new voice in horror, who is hopefully percolating more.” — Library Journal

“With a heart of mystery, a temperament of horror, and a persuasion of literary splendor, Jackson Kuhl’s A Season of Whispers will lead you though slowly darkening twists until you’ve sunk inescapably into the sinister depths of Bonaventure Farm.”

— Eric J. Guignard, award-winning author and editor of That Which Grows Wild and Doorways to the Deadeye

“Channeling past masters of the Gothic — namely Hawthorne, Lovecraft, and Poe — Jackson Kuhl has fashioned a pitch-perfect narrative for which those scriveners would be proud.”

— C.M. Muller, editor and publisher of Nightscript

“The monstrous forces that manipulate the Bonaventure commune are surpassed only by the evil that lingers at the heart of humanity: greed, power, and madness. By reaching into America’s transcendentalist history, Kuhl has authored a novel that is strangely reflective of our modern world.”

— Marc E. Fitch, author of Boy in the Box and Paradise Burns