When the Night Comes Knocking follows two siblings, Jane and Thomas, as they travel from college through the North Georgia mountains to meet their family for Thanksgiving. Their halting conversation in the car reveals a serious problem between them, but the discord is soon overshadowed by what they run into after stopping at a grocery store along the way.
That's the plot of Katherine Daniel's first novel, a horror tale appropriately published just before Halloween.
Daniel expressed a love of the horror genre, citing movies like Tremors and The Descent as among her favorites. Daniel's late grandmother--for whom the book is dedicated--was a horror fan who encouraged the writer to pursue her craft
A Georgia native, Daniel is already at work on a second horror tale due out next year.
