Scowler by Daniel Kraus6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() It's a perfect choice for mature horror readers who are looking to bridge the gap between YA and adult selections." Publishers Weekly, January 21, 2013: "Ry's desperate journey into manhood is gripping, with Kraus skillfully amplifying a sense of tension and claustrophobia." Kirkus Reviews, February 15, 2013: "A Midwestern gothic family saga that will hook readers.", March 6, 2013: "Kraus's story also functions as a look at how intense trauma can fracture and eventually break the human psyche, as seen through the eyes of the fragile, tormented Ry and his three imaginary friends. ![]() Consider yourself warned." -Adele Griffin, two-time National Book Award Finalist and author of All You Never Wanted "Marvin Burke is one of the great monsters of literature, a figure of immense, credible terror and savagery." -Cory Doctorow, March 12, 2013: "This isn't gross-out horror: the terror comes as much from piano-wire taut tension and spectacular characters as from viscera.Kraus's masterful raising-of-stakes makes this into the sort of disaster you can't possibly look away from." School Library Journal, May 2013: "This book has the pacing of a Stephen King movie.The metaphor of the meteorite countdown enhances the tense, dark, and creepy chill factor of this gritty, well-written thriller. ![]() "Daniel Kraus writes raw and deft and dangerous. ![]()
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