Mr. Splitfoot is lyrical, echoing, deeply strange, with a quality of sustained hallucination. It is the best book on communicating with the dead since William Lindsay Gresham's Nightmare Alley , but it swaps out that novel's cynicism for a more life-affirming sense of uncertainty - Luc Sante, author of Low LifeSamantha Hunt is an exciting find - a fresh original voice.a fantastical love story . literary gold - Sunday ExpressHunt's writing is free of affectation and carries surprising conviction - the New YorkerHunt [is] a writer to watch - Time Out New YorkI'm speechless. Samantha Hunt's Mr Splitfoot is so good, so inventive, so new, that I don't think I've read anything like it in years. On the surface it's about false spirituality and the most demented road trip across New York State ever attempted, but it's also about the horrible ties that bind us to one another and the small acts of redemption that make life almost okay. - Gary ShteyngartPart road trip, part gothic, Mr Splitfoot belongs on the shelf beside The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle .

Samantha Hunt is astonishing. Her every sentence electrifies. Her characters demand our closest attention. Her new book contains everything that I want in a novel. If I could long-distance mesmerize you, dear reader, into picking up this book and buying it and reading it at once, believe me: I would. - Kelly LinkA truly fantastic novel in which the blurring of natural and supernatural creates a stirring, visceral conclusion. - Kirkus Starred review'This spellbinder is storytelling at its best ' - Publishers Weekly, starred.