The Book of Accidents von Chuck Wendig

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 544 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Verlag: Random House UKPenguin
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9781529101096

Wendig combines cosmic horror and human heroism with his continuing theme of the traumatic effect of abusive relationships handed down from father to son; this is a rich, rewarding tale.Lisa Tuttle The Guardian

'Move over King, Chuck Wendig is the new voice of modern American horror'Adam Christopher<br><br>'A rich, rewarding tale'The Guardian<br>____________________________________________________________________________<br><br>A family returns to their hometown - and to the dark past that haunts them still - in this masterpiece of literary horror by theNew York Timesbestselling author ofWanderers<br><br>When Nate's father dies, he leaves behind a final gift for his son: his childhood home. Married now, Nate decides to move in with his wife, Maddie, and their son, Oliver, seeking peace from the chaos of the city.<br><br>But it doesn't take long before things get strange in the night and even stranger by day.<br><br>Because Nate was a child being abused by his father, and has never told his family. Because Maddie was a little girl who saw something she shouldn't have. Because something sinister, something hungry, walks in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of this town in rural Pennsylvania...<br><br>And now, what happened all those years ago is happening again, and this time, it is happening to Oliver. When he meets a strange boy with secrets of his own and a taste for dark magic, he has no idea that what comes next will put his family at the heart of a battle of good versus evil.<br>____________________________________________________________________________<br><br>'The dread, the scope, the pacing, the turns-I haven't felt all this so intensely sinceThe Shining'- Stephen Graham Jones<br><br>'Universally horrifying and viscerally intimate, Wendig brilliantly usesThe Book of Accidentsto explore a painful truth: in the end, we all haunt ourselves'-Kiersten White

1GBChuck Wendigis theNew York Timesbestselling author ofWanderers,The Book of Accidents,Wayward, and more than two dozen other books for adults and young adults. A finalist for the Astounding Award and an alumnus of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, he has also written for comics, games, film, and television. He's known for his popular blog, terribleminds, and books about writing such asDamn Fine Story. He lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with his family.

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