THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL'A DELICIOUSLY SCARY TALE OF FRIENDSHIP AND COURAGE.' THE GUARDIAN'This is Chuck Wendig at the top of his game.' THOMAS OLDE HEUVELT, AUTHOR OF HEX AND DARKER DAYS 'THIS PLACE HATES YOU.'Five high school friends, bonded by an oath to protect each other no matter what.On a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhereOne friend walks up - but never comes back down.Now twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared, and the friends return to find the lost boy - and what lies beyond the staircase in the woods.FROM THE MODERN HORROR SENSATION COMES A NEW BONE-CHILLING MASTERPIECE.AUTHORS LOVE THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS.'A searing, propulsive, dread-filled exploration of the horrors of knowing and being known.' KIERSTEN WHITE, NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HIDE'Deliciously disorienting and deeply captivating' ALAINA URQUHART, NO. 1 NEW TORK TIMES BETSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BUTCHER GAME'The Staircase in the Woods is a true blueprint for terror that stands alongside the likes of such classic habitats as Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, Michael McDowell's The Elementals, and Stephen King's The Shining.' CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN'The Staircase in the Woods is as mysterious, alluring, heartbreaking, ever-shifting, and unnervingly powerful as the nature of friendship itself.' NAT CASSIDY'The Staircase in the Woods will become lodged in your mind, if you let it in.' JENNY KIEFER'Highly original and deeply disturbing, this one will stick with you.' GWENDOLYN KISTE'Chuck Wendig is one of my very favorite storytellers.' ERIN MORGENSTERN'Wendig's wheelhouse is knowing exactly how to pluck heartstrings and prey on fears at the same time' SADIE HARTMAN'Move over King, Chuck Wendig is the new voice of modern American horror' ADAM CHRISTOPHERSunday Times bestseller, May 2025.