The Hunger($13.71Value)

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"Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark." --Stephen King A tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most haunting human disasters: the Donner Party with a supernatural twist. Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the isolated travelers to the brink of madness. Though they dream of what awaits them in the West, long-buried secrets begin to emerge, and dissent among them escalates to the point of murder and chaos, unknowingly propelling them into one of the deadliest and most disastrous Western adventures in American history. As members of the group begin to disappear, the survivors start to wonder if there really is something disturbing, and hungry, waiting for them in the mountains...and whether the evil that has unfolded around them may have in fact been growing within them all along. Effortlessly combining the supernatural and the historical, The Hunger is an eerie, thrilling look at the volatility of human nature, pushed to its breaking point. An NPR Best Horror Novel A Suspense Magazine Best Book of the Year Winner of the Western Heritage Award Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award Finalist for the Locus Award  And one of... The New York Times 's 50 States, 50 Scares  Picks  O, The Oprah Magazine 's Scariest Books of All Time Women's Republic 's Ten Horror Books by Women to Read This October TODAY.com's 13 Scary Books, From Classics to Modern Fiction, to Read for Halloween  AARP Magazine 's 20 Scary Books for Grownups Forbes' s The Five Best Horror Books of 2018-2019 Vulture ’s 13 Great Horror Books Written by Women Refinery29 's 20 Terrifying Books for When You've Already Read All The Spooky Season Classics BookRiot 's 15 Favorite Historical Thrillers BookRiot 's 9 Great Camping Horror Books BookRiot's Best Horror Books of the Decade The Observer 's Best Books of 2018 InsideHook 's New Wester Canon Selections Mental Floss’ 13 Essential Horror Novels From The Last Five Years Goodreads’ The Most Popular Horror Novels of the Past Five Years Shondaland ’s 16 Spine-Tingling Reads for Halloween Men’s Health ’s Best Horror Books “Supernatural suspense at its finest...It is strangely ethereal, yet gritty...But the best thing about The Hunger is that it will scare the pants off you....Enjoy the journey, one so entertaining that you almost don't mind feeling queasy at dinner.” —The New York Times Book Review "Not only will Alma Katsu's acclaimed novel haunt you, it will give you empathy for the people forced to undergo such horrors." —O, The Oprah Magazine “Katsu shows an acute understanding of human nature.…[She] is at her best when she forces her readers to stare at the almost unimaginable meeting of ordinary people and extraordinary desperation, using her sharp, haunting language.” — USA Today “A reimagining of the ill-fated Donner Party but with an eerie supernatural twist.” — New York Post “The Donner Party will never not be fascinating, and Alma Katsu’s The Hunger somehow makes the man-eating story all the more enticing.” –BookRiot "Equal parts unputdownable and must-put-it-down-or-I-am-going-to-have-a-heart-attack...You travel into this book and there is no escape. Katsu is an exceptionally gifted writer and the dread-soaked pages are with me every day as both a writer and a scaredy cat.” —Caroline Kepnes for TODAY.com “Combines meticulous historical research and a keen understanding of human nature with a monstrous original metaphor to reimagine the ill-fated Donner-Reed party as a haunted endeavor, doomed from its first mile.” — Salon " The Hunger is full of foreboding and humanity." — Refinery29 “ The Hunger is being described as ‘the Donner Party with a supernatural twist,’ and it sure delivers on the spooky premise.” — Bustle “[ The Hunger ] is as rich in history as it is disturbing.” — Vulture "Katsu retells the haunting story of the Donner Party—shining a light on the darkest parts of human nature while incorporating a chilling supernatural element." —AARP “Much like Dan Simmons's The Terror , Alma Katsu's accomplished, engrossing novel weaves a cocoon of supernatural horror around historical tragedy....The atmosphere of doom becomes as thick as the snow that eventually halts the pioneers' progress. It's a beautifully intense read.” — The Financial Times (UK) “ The Hunger by Alma Katsu takes the tragic tale of the Donner Party and infuses it with hints of witchcraft, vampirism, lycanthropy, cannibalism and zombiism in a tale that is fated to become the latest Donner Party-inspired horror movie.” — True West Magazine "Katsu grips and tormets readers with an eerie, well-researched facsimile of 19th-century America, vivid imagery of the harsh pionee