Stallo

by Stefan Spjut

Susan Beard (Translator)

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What if something is out there?

A haunting supernatural thriller for fans of Let the Right One In, The Passage and Salem's Lot.

'I was enthralled form the very first page . . . the words seems to sparkle on the page.' Karl Ove Knausgaard

In the summer of 1978 a young boy disappears without trace from a summer cabin in the woods. His mother claims that he was abducted by a giant. The boy is never found.

The previous year, over in a Swedish National Park, a wildlife photographer takes a strange picture from his small airplane, of a bear running over the marshes. On its back sits a creature, which the photographer claims is something extraordinary.

Twenty-five years later, and back in Laponia, Susso runs a much-maligned web page, one dedicated to searching for creatures whose existence have not yet been proven: the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot. But Susso has her own obsession, one inherited from her grandfather, the well-known wildlife photographer.

When an old woman claims that a small creature has been standing outside her house, observing her and her five year old grandson for hours, Susso picks up her camera and leaves for what will become a terrifying adventure into the unknown . . .
  • ISBN10 0571296785
  • ISBN13 9780571296781
  • Publish Date 4 June 2015 (first published 2 June 2015)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 11 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Faber & Faber
  • Edition Main
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 608
  • Language English