Gorgeous Hardcover Edition. EX LIBRARY COPY "The Croning is a devastating exploration of dementia and a possible cause, and a deeply disturbing imagining of a modern day Rumpelstiltskin. Reading it is like being eaten from the inside out by termites. You have the gnawing sense that something is wrong, you feel ill...." - Karon Warren Laird Barron's incredible novel in which he lets us in on the secrets of his Old Leech Mythos.