The Hunger by Alma KatsuRead about another novel on the list.
Katsu has been churning out historical horror since 2011, but I was introduced to her work with 2018’s The Hunger. In it, she adds a supernatural bent to the true-life tale of the Donner party, a group of American pioneers who were trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the winter, succumbed to starvation and eventually turned to cannibalism. When one thinks of cannibalism, one’s mind automatically turns to The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. But I also can’t help thinking about Michael Crichton’s Congo, which features a whole other expedition gone horribly wrong.
The Hunger is among Sharon Virts's twenty scary books for Halloween, C. J. Tudor's five top winter thrillers, Brittany Bunzey's twenty-five "must-read, truly bone-chilling" horror books, Deborah E. Kennedy's seven hot mysteries set in the Midwestern winter, Meagan Navarro top ten scary good horror novels, Jac Jemc's top ten haunting ghost stories and Mallory O'Meara's top thirteen spine-chilling books written by female authors.
My Book, The Movie: The Hunger.
The Page 69 Test: The Hunger.
--Marshal Zeringue
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