The Insatiable Volt Sisters
A Novel
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Publisher Description
Named one of the Best Horror Books of 2023 by The New York Times
"Weird and exhilarating and funny and sad and disturbing and scary and poignant and righteous." —Paul Tremblay, author of The Pallbearers Club
"Pure nightmare fuel." —Gus Moreno, author of This Thing Between Us
It's the summer of 1989 and Beatrice and Henrietta Volt are coming of age on remote Fowler Island, their ancestral home and wild playground. Thicker than thieves, the sisters plot their futures, having no idea that their parents are separating. Or that the plan is to separate them.
Ten years pass before Henrie gets a desperate call from her sister—their father has died suddenly and B.B. needs her to come back to the island for the funeral. But Henrie doesn’t want to go back. She’s barely put the island and all those rumors about missing women behind her. And isn’t it odd that she remembers nothing at all about the night she left? And why is she suddenly filled with fear about the quarry pond behind the house?
Told from the perspectives of four flawed, fascinating women, The Insatiable Volt Sisters is a lush, enthralling fable about monsters real and imagined. From the unbounded imagination of Rachel Eve Moulton, the critically acclaimed author of Tinfoil Butterfly, comes another eerie, terrifying exploration of family and legacy: Will the Volt sisters inherit the horrors of their past or surpass them?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This vivid and masterful domestic horror novel from Moulton (Tinfoil Butterfly) centers on generations of women locked in loving mortal combat. First introduced are the eponymous Volt sisters, Beatrice (or "B.B.") and Henrietta ("Henrie"), who, in the 1980s, grow up together on Lake Erie's tiny, wild Fowler Island. Then their parents separate, and Henrie's mother, B.B.'s stepmother, snatches her away to the mainland to save her from the island's malevolent influence. Ten years later, Henrie is reluctantly drawn back by news of their father's death—and she soon rediscovers the island's many forgotten secrets. The Volt family has ostensibly dominated Fowler's since ancestor Seth carved out a massive stone quarry and built his eccentric mansion, Quarry Hollow—but really, the island dominates them. Myriad young Volt women have died in the quarry, devoured by a shape-shifting devil that lives under the island and exerts his influence over the Volts, compelling the men in the family to clean up his mess. As Henrie and B.B. struggle against this fate—and each other—they seek guidance from Henrie's mother, Carrie; island historian Ms. Sonia; and the many ghosts trapped within Quarry Hollow's walls. Moulton expertly balances hope and dread as the tension builds to a fever pitch. Readers will be hooked.
