Memorials
A Novel
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- 169,00 kr
Publisher Description
The New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller about a group of college students encountering supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia—an unforgettable, chilling novel that is “scary and hard to put down. You might be advised not to read it at night” (Stephen King).
1983: Three students from a small college embark on a weeklong road trip to film a documentary on roadside memorials for their American Studies class. The project starts out as a fun adventure, with long stretches of empty road and nightly campfires where they begin to open up with one another.
But as they venture deeper into the Appalachian backwoods, the atmosphere begins to darken. They notice more and more of the memorials feature a strange, unsettling symbol hinting at a sinister secret. Paranoia sets in when it appears they are being followed. Their vehicle is tampered with overnight, and some of the locals appear to be anything but welcoming. Before long, the students can’t help but wonder if these roadside deaths were really random accidents…or is something terrifying at work here?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
If you’re a sucker for small-town-with-a-dark-secret chillers, then this tale of a well-intentioned college project gone awry in 1983 rural Pennsylvania is for you. Billy, Troy, and Melody are well acquainted with the tragedy of losing close family members, so it’s not surprising that their final project in American Studies 301 is a documentary about Appalachian roadside memorials to car accidents, including interviews with the grieving relatives those victims left behind. But a series of unsettling encounters with the locals gradually points to a creepy connection among several of the accidents—including the death of Billy’s own parents in a car crash when he was 16. Author Richard Chizmar’s spooky story (speckled throughout with video transcripts that hark back to many found-footage film faves) breaks from the usual horror tropes with its genuine and thoughtful grappling with grief and the marks it leaves on a person as they struggle to recover. The author vividly depicts just how much Billy’s life derails after his parents’ deaths and how trying to move on is not a linear process; that realism casts the more fantastical aspects of the plot into sharp relief. This is terror with a brain and a heart.
