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Foxfire by Rowan Hill
Foxfire is an excellently crafted experiment in terror. Rowan Hill has squeezed out an exuberant amount of readerly anxiety in this story of isolation and the darkest recesses of the wilderness. Foxfire is a beautifully penned horror story about isolation and the entrapment of the harsh arctic wilderness. After reading Rowan Hill’s debut novel, In the Arctic Sun and now this beauty, I am heralding Hill with the name of Wilderness horror queen. I’m yet to read an author who does this vast sense of keening horror that accompanies the places that the suns light fails to reach often. Rowan Hill’s Firefox is so confident so sure of its place…
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Interview with Rowan Hill
Today we welcome Rowan Hill, horror author, an expert on the creeping unease, and an all-round good egg. Firstly, could you tell the readers a little about yourself? Good Morning! Oh well, where to start!? I am an author of horror and sci-fi with a deep love of the 80s. though am a product of the ’90s/00s. I grew up in Australia and America and have lived a little bit of everywhere since college. If I have time (and energy), I love art museums, hiking mountains, and (of course) writing! Your published novella, In the Arctic Sun, was particularly telling. It was one of my favourite reads of last year.…
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REVIEW: In the Arctic Sun by Rowan Hill
In the Arctic Sun is Rowan Hill’s debut novella that promises to mess with your head. I’ve had the pleasure of reading Hill’s short stories and have always been transfixed with the atmosphere her writing always creates. The story perfectly examines the emotional turmoil the body can go through when they are robbed of sleep. Sleep deprivation is a torture method for a reason! The Arctic sun. Alaskan setting. Oil digging disrupting the fabric of her peace. It’s a no-brainer. So, did In the Arctic Sun deliver? Does a bear shit in the woods? The prologue opens and gives the reader an immediate sense of place. You are in…
