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The Night Strangers (2011) (edit title/settings)

by Chris Bohjalian (Author) (edit contributors)

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In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there... read more

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Chip Linton was a pilot whose plane crashed due to a flock of geese. He suffers a break down and he and his family move to New Hamshire to a house with a secret history. The town of Bethel is a little strange and as Chip, his wife, Emily and their twin daughters, Hallie and Garnet, start to... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Chip Linton was a pilot whose plane crashed due to a flock of geese. He suffers a break down and he and his family move to New Hamshire to a house with a secret history. The town of Bethel is a little strange and as Chip, his wife, Emily and their twin daughters, Hallie and Garnet, start to settle into the house, they meet many of the townspeople who seem to show a marked interest in Hallie and Garnet. They all have greenhouses and grow herbs, some used for cooking and some used for tinctures to cure various ailments. Emily and the girls are drawn into growing their own herbs despite a couple of women who warn Emily that the women are really witches. Even some of the men, such as John Hardin, Emily's new boss, are encouraging Emily and the girls to use new names--all the women have names of plants or herbs. Hallie seems interested, but Garnet rebels and even Emily is reluctant to completely trust the women who seem so insistent. Chip is haunted by three people who died in the plane crash and Reseda, one of the herbalists, tries to help him and send the ghosts away. Anise, another herbalist, seems to have caused some of Chip's problems with her cookies and other baked goods she always gives to the Lintons. Finally, the goal is revealed and Emily understands why the women are so interested in her daughters. The question is if she will take them away or if she will fall in with the plan.

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  • Chip Linton: A pilot whose plane crashed in Lake Champlain killing most of his passengers. He starts to hear and see strange things in the creepy New England house they moved into after the tragedy.
  • Emily Linton: Chip's wife who is a lawyer. She finds herself being drawn into a feud between the herbalists in the town and those who think they have evil intent.
  • Hallie Linton: Chip and Emily's oldest daughter (oldest by minutes). One of a fraternal set of twins. The more confident of the two - at least until they moved into the new house. Now everything seems to be changing and not necessarily for the good.
  • Garnet Linton: Chip and Emily's youngest twin...named for her red hair. The shyer of the two. She has "trances" that are epileptic seizures rendering her mute.
  • Reseda Hill: Bethel realtor and herbalist.
  • John Hardin: Emily's boss in Bethel
  • Clary Hardin: John's wife and one of Bethel's herbalists.
  • Hewitt Dunmore: Former owner of the house the Lintons purchased.
  • Ashley Sterns: A young girl with a Dora the Explorer backpack who died on the plane that Chip was flying.
  • Ethan Sterns: Ashley's father and another of the thirty-nine who died on Chip's plane.
  • Mrs. Collier: Hallie and Garnet's teacher and one of Bethel's herbalists.
  • Molly Francoeur: A shy but popular child in Hallie and Garnet's class who tells the twin about the herbalists.
  • Michael Richmond: Chip's psychiatrist
  • Sage Messner: An older herbalist
  • Celandine Payne: Local police officer who is called when the Linton girls discover a skull in the basement. The officer's first name is also a name of a herb.
  • Valerian Wainscott: Psychiatrist referred by John Hardin to see Chip and one of the many herbalist in Bethel.
  • Becky Davis: A Bethel Library employee who warns Emily regarding John Hardin and the herbalists.
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Setting & Locations edit see section history

Contemporary New Hampshire

First Sentence edit see section history

You see the long, wide, perfectly straight strip of asphalt before you, the hangar to your right with the words GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS painted in billboard-size letters along the side.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Prologue

Part 1
Chapters 1-6

Part 2
Chapters 7-9

Part 3
Chapters 10-16

Part 4
Chapters 17-20

Epilogue

Glossary edit see section history

  • tincture: A medicine made by dissolving a drug in alcohol
  • reliquary: A container for holy relics
  • grimoire: A book of magic spells and invocations
  • inchoate: Just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Chris Bohjalian (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Crown
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 4, 2011
ISBN: 0307394999
Page Count: 400

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3552.O495N54
  • Dewey: 813.54

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