The Cabin at the End of the World
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Chapter Book · 2018

The Cabin at the End of the World

By Paul Tremblay

A family vacation turns into a nightmare as strangers demand their help to save the world.

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Wen and her parents' peaceful cabin retreat shatters when Leonard, a friendly giant, arrives with ominous strangers. They claim the family's help is needed to prevent an apocalypse. As tension mounts, the line between paranoia and reality blurs. Can Wen's family trust these intruders, or is their world truly at stake? In this gripping tale of survival and sacrifice, the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.

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“A tremendous book―thought-provoking and terrifying, with tension that winds up like a chain. The Cabin at the End of the World is Tremblay’s personal best. It’s that good.” – Stephen KingThe 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.Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, None of what’s going to happen is your fault. Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world.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. The Cabin at the End of the World is a masterpiece of terror and suspense from the fantastically fertile imagination of Paul Tremblay.”Read Paul Tremblay’s new novel, The Cabin at the End of the World, and you might not sleep for a week. Longer. It will shape your nightmares for months - that’s pretty much guaranteed.” – NPR”Gripping, horrifying, and mesmerizing.” – GQ”A tour-de-force of psychological and religious horror.” – BN.com”A blinding tale of survival and sacrifice.” – Kirkus Reviews”Tremblay has a real winner here.” – Tor.com

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Format
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Pages
304
Audience
Adult
Themes & topics
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Publication
Published
July 2, 2019
First published
June 26, 2018
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Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
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ISBN
9780062679116

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