education, and law. Her debut, People Like Us, was shortlisted for the 2019 ITW Thriller Award for Best Young Adult Novel and is an ALA Rainbow List Selection. Their sophomore novel, Summer's Edge, was a Barnes & Noble YA Book Club Selection and a New York Public Library Best Books for Teens title.
Mele's new novel is The Beast You Let In.
[Q&A with Dana Mele]
At CrimeReads the author tagged ten memorable horror stories from film and fiction that feature twins, including:
Read about another entry on the list.The Grady Sisters
Stephen King, The Shining
Once again, in Stephen King’s novel The Shining, former caretaker Delbert Grady’s daughters are not twins. But the movie’s image of the ghostly twin girls holding hands and staring vacantly at Danny is seared into the cultural consciousness.
They may not be main characters, but in one single line of dialogue and a couple of brief appearances, they forever made long, empty hotel hallways terrifying.
The Shining is among Claire Douglas's five top psychological thrillers set in isolated places, Leslie Jamison's five best books to understand drinking, Jeff Somers's ten all-time scariest haunted house books and five books totally unlike their adaptations, Laura Purcell's five top gothic novels, Sam Riedel's six eeriest SFF stories inspired by true events, Joel Cunningham's top seven books featuring long winters, Ashley Brooke Roberts's seven best haunted house books, Jake Kerridge's top ten Stephen King books, Amanda Yesilbas and Charlie Jane Anders's top ten horror novels that are scarier than most movies, Charlie Higson's top ten horror books, and Monica Ali's best books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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