One knife. One curse. One very bad decision.
Dennis Lange is desperate for a second chance. Disgraced and drowning in failure, his big comeback depends on selling the story of a haunted tree in rural Pennsylvania. But when he pulls a rusted jackknife from its twisted trunk, he doesn’t just uncover the past—he unleashes it.
Long ago, the tree was the site of vigilante justice. Now it wants more.
What begins as a journalistic gimmick spirals into a waking nightmare as Dennis realizes the tree remembers, hungers, and is ready to root itself into something far darker than folklore.
From New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, Jackknife is a chilling short story of ancient revenge and modern horror.
Because some legends don’t die—they grow.
