The Scarecrows Will Watch Over Us (PREORDER)

(Releases 9/11/2025)

On an aging farm deep in rural Wisconsin, bizarre scarecrows loom—crooked, rotting, and alive with something ancient. Locals whisper that they’re more than decoration, that old magic runs through their stitched-up frames, keeping a dangerous force at bay.

They say the scarecrows keep something out.
Something feral.
Something catlike.
Something seductive.
Something called the criatura di jattu.

When the Swanson family visits the Hollis farm to tour the property, their young daughter wanders off into the woods. As the search unfolds, Tobias, the aging farmer who tends the scarecrows like kin; Barbara, his weary wife who knows what the woods can take; Jaylen, the real estate agent desperate to close the deal; and Ebony Chambers, a cryptid hunter on a mission for a grotesque French collector, find their paths entangled in a nightmare older than the soil itself.

As blood rites flare and guttural growls ripple through the trees, the forest stirs—ancient and hungry. From the author of God’s Leftovers, The Scarecrows Watch Over Us is a chilling fusion of folk horror and cryptid myth, where every shadow may have claws…and every scarecrow may be the only thing standing between you and the dark.