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Violence
A lot
Cosmic horror and monster violence; deaths including family members; some disturbing imagery
Language
Some
Some strong language in a horror register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Adult relationships in the backstory; nothing explicit
Substance Use
Barely any
Moderate drinking in a family setting
Emotional Intensity
A lot
A family gradually consumed by something they cannot name; the specific grief of losing a parent; a boy who forms a bond with the thing that is destroying his family
What this book is about
The Turner family builds a haunted attraction in their backyard in 1980s Texas. Noah, the youngest of three children, begins seeing a monster that the rest of the family dismisses. The monster is real — and Noah develops a relationship with it that shapes his entire life. Shaun Hamill's debut is a deeply melancholy horror novel about a family drawn toward something dark, written in a register closer to elegiac fiction than genre horror — until it isn't. A meditation on grief, found family, and the monsters we make deals with.
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cosmic horror and monster violence
deaths of family members
a child's relationship with a supernatural creature
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