"Delightfully morbid and surprisingly emotional" -The New York
Times A chilling and twisty horror of toxic friendships, punk rock
and vampire parasites from the Bram Stoker award-winning modern
master of horror and author of The Cabin at the End of the World
and A Head Full of Ghosts. 1988, and puberty has hit Art Barbara
hard - he's a painfully socially awkward teenager, underweight,
acne-ridden, and bent crooked by scoliosis. Worse, he has no extra
credits to get him into college. So Art starts the Pallbearers'
Club, dedicated to mourning the homeless and lonely - the people
with no one else to bury them. It might be a small club, unpopular
and morbid, but it introduces Art to Mercy Brown, who is into
bands, local history, folklore and digging up the dead. Decades
later, Art is writing his memoir to try and make sense of it all,
because nothing about Mercy is simple. It's all a matter of trust,
right? Their friendship twists and coils around the pair of them,
captured in Polaroid snapshots and sweaty gigs and the freaky,
inexplicable flashes of nightmare that lurk in a folded jacket at
night. Because Art is writing his memoir to make sense of it all,
but Mercy is reading it too. Mercy thinks Art's novel - because
this isn't a memoir - needs some work, and she's more than happy to
set the record straight. What if Art didn't get everything right?
Come on, Art, you can't tell just one side of the story...
Seamlessly blurring the lines between fiction and memory, the
supernatural and the mundane, The Pallbearers Club is an immersive,
suspenseful portrait of an unforgettable and unsettling friendship.
General
Imprint: |
Titan Books Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
July 2022 |
Authors: |
Paul Tremblay
|
Dimensions: |
198 x 130 x 32mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78909-900-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Special features >
Graphic novels
|
LSN: |
1-78909-900-5 |
Barcode: |
9781789099003 |
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