Four cabin-oriented crime & horror novels

Molly Odintz is the managing editor for CrimeReads and the editor of Austin Noir. She grew up in Austin and worked as a bookseller before becoming a Very Professional Internet Person. She lives in central Texas with her cat, Fritz Lang.

At CrimeReads Odintz tagged four "recent and upcoming novels in which everything is already terrible and then the cabin makes things worse," including:

Matthew Lyons, A Mask of Flies

In Matthew Lyons’ propulsive new horror thriller, a bank robbery gone sideways forces one of the robbers to take the remnants of her gang, plus a hostage or two, to her old family cabin to recoup and recover. Upon arrival, they discover a VHS with terrifying metaphysical implications as Lyons takes a sharp left turn towards Lovecraftian cosmic horror.

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--Marshal Zeringue