The Night Country

At Midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into a tree, killing three of them. One escapes unharmed, another suffers severe brain damage. A year later, summoned by the memories of those closest to them, the three that died come back on a last chilling mission among the living.

A strange and unsettling ghost story in the tradition of Ray Bradbury and Shirley Jackson, "The Night Country" creeps through the leaf-strewn streets and quiet cul-de-sacs of one bedroom community, reaching into the desperately connected yet isolated lives of three people changed forever by the accident: Tim, who survived yet lost everything; Brooks, the cop whose guilty secret has destroyed his life; and Kyle's mom, trying to love the new son the doctors returned to her. As the day wanes and darkness falls, one of them puts a terrible plan into effect, and they find themselves caught in a collision of need and desire, watched over by the knowing ghosts.

• Author
• Stewart O'Nan

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 229

• Publisher
• Farrar Straus Giroux

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-374-22215-4

• EAN
• 9780374222154

• Genres
• horror, fiction, halloween, ghosts, supernatural, novels, fantasy, paranormal

• Release date
• 2003