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Now in hardcover · The Thing in the Woods →
The Thing in the Woods
One country doctor. A hill full of secrets. Something moving in the woods. Dr. Haverill takes over a quiet practice in the Pennsylvania hills and finds a neighbourhood running on rumour – a household the whole district has stopped speaking to, a cyclist dead on a quiet stretch of road, and a shape at the edge of the trees that nobody will describe twice.
First published in 1924 under the name Harper Williams, The Thing in the Woods is the work of Margery Williams Bianco – remembered now for The Velveteen Rabbit – and an early, unusually effective piece of American folk horror. Set from the first American edition, with a new introduction and forty-five notes, and now the first Squire Press title in hardcover.
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Notes on Books & the Craft
19 April 2026 · Forgotten Classics
Why Forgotten Classics Matter in the Age of AI
Or: why the past still offers something no machine can fake
We are not anti-AI at Squire Press. We use AI extensively in our work. But tools are not the same thing as authors – and that distinction matters more now than it used to. In an age of synthetic language, older books offer something increasingly rare: human presence, the oddity of a mind, the texture of a sentence no optimisation process would have chosen.
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