Horror Stories: a book group In-Person / Online
Tremblay (Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, 2016) is back with another thought-provoking, page-turning horror novel. Wen is almost eight years old, on vacation with her two dads, Andrew and Eric, on an isolated lake in New Hampshire. While catching grasshoppers on the front lawn, she encounters Leonard, a large man in a white button-down shirt, who asks for help convincing her dads to let him and his friends into their home. They have come to this secluded place with their menacing and crude weapons to stop the world from ending, and Wen and her dads are the key to humanity’s survival. What follows is an extremely intense, anxiety-inducing thriller that puts the family in mortal danger while forcing them to tackle a universal dilemma—is one life worth that of seven billion others? Alternating between unreliable narrators, Tremblay captures the intense emotional struggle, especially in flashbacks into the lives of the odds-defying family of Wen, Andrew, and Eric, while dread and terror permeate every sentence. This is a novel with the heart and tone of The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (2006), but will also appeal to fans of Ruth Ware, Josh Malerman, and Joe Hill.
- Date:
- Thursday, October 3, 2024 Show more dates
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Aldrich Room
- Online:
- This is an online event.
- Event URL:
- https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMoc--hqz0jG9JqvEgq8vHd_osCsoTPskmd
- Categories:
- Adult
Horror Stories is a book group that reads contemporary and classic horror novels. We meet the first Thursday, bimonthly @ 6:30 in the Aldrich Room and by Zoom.
Email Mike at mike.morris@thehowe.org for a Zoom invitation or more information.