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The Cabin at the End of the World

By Paul Tremblay
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay digital book - Fable

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Paul Tremblay’s terrifying twist to the home invasion novel—inspiration for the upcoming major motion picture from Universal Pictures

“Tremblay’s personal best. It’s that good.” — Stephen King

Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.

One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen, but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, “None of what’s going to happen is your fault.” Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: “Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world.”

Thus begins an unbearably tense, gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that escalates to a shattering conclusion, one in which the fate of a loving family and quite possibly all of humanity are entwined. The Cabin at the End of the World is a masterpiece of terror and suspense from the fantastically fertile imagination of Paul Tremblay.

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Thinking Face“It was definitely a solid read for me and I enjoyed that the line between supernatural and religious psychosis was really blurred. I think humans are pretty terrifying and what our brains can trick us into.”
Expressionless Face“great idea, wrong writer. this book would be 150 pages if the author didn't spend such an excruciating amount of time describing random things around the room and random thoughts of the charactersand what they are planning to do. sometimes there was good suspense, but most of the time it fell lind of flat. Random homophobia sub story that doesn't lend anything to the actual story is shoehorned in. the characters are pretty one dimensional and the ending was lackluster. this is the only book I have yet to say " the movie was better". because it was, the movie fixed a couple parts including its garbage ending and was genuinely enjoyable. go watch the movie, skip the book.”

About Paul Tremblay

Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book Awards and is the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie: A NovelThe Beast You AreThe Pallbearers ClubSurvivor SongGrowing Things and Other StoriesDisappearance at Devil's RockA Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the Universal Pictures film Knock at the Cabin.

His essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and numerous "year's best" anthologies. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts, with his family and has a master's degree in mathematics.

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