“Tremblay has a real winner here.” -Tor.I've found that as I've gotten older, I've turned away from many of the things that used to bring me joy in search of pure, instant comfort. “A blinding tale of survival and sacrifice.” - Kirkus Reviews “A tour-de-force of psychological and religious horror.” -BN.com “Gripping, horrifying, and mesmerizing.” - GQ It will shape your nightmares for months – that's pretty much guaranteed.” - NPR “Read Paul Tremblay's new novel, The Cabin at the End of the World, and you might not sleep for a week. The Cabin at the End of the World is a masterpiece of terror and suspense from the fantastically fertile imagination of Paul Tremblay.
Thus begins an unbearably tense, gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that escalates to a shattering conclusion, one in which the fate of a loving family and quite possibly all of humanity are entwined. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: "Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, "None of what’s going to happen is your fault". Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts adds an inventive twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King’s Misery, Ruth Ware’s In a Dark, Dark Wood, and Jack Ketchum’s cult hit The Girl Next Door. I just couldn’t wait to see where Tremblay was going to take me next.” - Victor LaValle “A clinic in suspense, a story that opens with high-wire tension and never lets up from there.” - Michael Koryta The Cabin at the End of the World is Tremblay’s personal best. “A tremendous book?thought-provoking and terrifying, with tension that winds up like a chain.
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