Staff Pick
A gruesome, brutal coming-of-age story that is as touching as it is terrifying, gory as it is gorgeous. Read it before bed and enjoy your nightmares! Just don't read it while eating your lunch. Recommended By Heather A., Powells.com
Nick Cutter has a gift — and that gift is the ability to write a book so brutal and spine-chilling that it left me breathless and weak in the knees. Five boy scouts and their scoutmaster leave for their annual trip to a remote island when an impossibly thin (and impossibly hungry) stranger unexpectedly enters their midst. And that's the least of their problems. What happens from there is the breakdown of absolutely everything as they know it. The Troop strangles you with dread from the very first page and doesn't let go. Tightly controlled, grotesquely visualized, and so, so hungry. Recommended By Nicole S, Powells.com
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WINNER OF THE JAMES HERBERT AWARD FOR HORROR WRITING
"The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn't put it down. This is old-school horror at its best." --Stephen King
Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip--a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfire. But when an unexpected intruder stumbles upon their campsite--shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry--Tim and the boys are exposed to something far more frightening than any tale of terror. The human carrier of a bioengineered nightmare. A horror that spreads faster than fear. A harrowing struggle for survival with no escape from the elements, the infected...or one another.
Part Lord of the Flies, part 28 Days Later--and all-consuming--this tightly written, edge-of-your-seat thriller takes you deep into the heart of darkness, where fear feeds on sanity...and terror hungers for more.
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"The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn't put it down. This is old-school horror at its best." --Stephen King This "grim microcosm of terror and desperation haunting" (Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling a