Beyond the Raspberry Bushes: Scarecrow of Crawdad Creek, (Paperback)

<p><strong>The land remembers. The quiet isn't empty.</strong></p><p>In the summer of 1992, eight-year-old Taylor Mae Dayton spends her days tending the raspberry bushes she shares with her grandmother on their small Brakesville farm.</p><p>When the crows begin tearing through them, Taylor builds a scarecrow from old clothes, barn hay, and a single gold button she found at the Mystic Mercantile-though no one can say where it came from.</p><p>By nightfall, something changes.</p><p>The wind turns dry. The quiet grows heavy.</p><p> And what stands in the field is no longer just straw and thread.</p><p>It watches.</p><p> It moves.</p><p> And it wants something it cannot take.</p><p>As the presence draws closer to the house, Taylor finds herself bound to something she doesn't understand-and may not be able to leave behind.</p><p><strong>Beyond the Raspberry Bushes</strong> is an Appalachian Gothic novella steeped in atmosphere, memory, and the quiet horror of things that were never meant to stay.</p>

• Beyond the Raspberry Bushes: Scarecrow of Crawdad Creek, (Paperback)
• Author: Tibbi Ann Hardix
• ISBN: 9798295777554
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-04-06
• Page Count: 182