When she looks up, she finds herself sharing space with the largest man she’s ever seen. Wen’s play is interrupted by the sound of footsteps on the driveway, which announce the arrival of an unexpected visitor. Located on a remote New Hampshire lake, the property exists in peaceful seclusion the closest neighbors are more than two miles away.

Readers first meet seven-year-old Wen, who is capturing grasshoppers on the front lawn of the cabin that her family-fathers Eric and Andrew-has rented for their summer vacation. His newest psychological thriller, The Cabin at the End of the World, presses a plethora of hot-button issues. Tremblay earned a master’s degree in mathematics and teaches in the Boston area by day. He has had essays and short fiction published in the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year’s-best anthologies and is a member of the board of directors of the Shirley Jackson Awards. Paul Tremblay is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the horror-suspense hybrid novel Head Full of Ghosts (2015) as well as last year’s Disappearance at Devil’s Rock he also wrote the crime thrillers The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland as well as the short story collection In the Mean Time. The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay is a masterpiece of terror and psychological suspense that adds an inventive twist to the home invasion horror story.

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