Bride of the Tornado
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Bride of the Tornado
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“A powerfully weird, original tale that combines American folk horror with a surreal coming-of-age nightmare.”—The Guardian
Stephen King’s The Mist meets David Lynch’s Twin Peaks in this surreal, mind-bending horror-thriller.
A young woman's secretive Midwestern town is engulfed by a mysterious plague of tornadoes every generation—and she must escape it before it claims her.
Stephen King's The Mist meets David Lynch's Twin Peaks in this surreal, mind-bending horror-thriller.
"A powerfully weird, original tale that combines American folk horror with a surreal coming-of-age nightmare." - The Guardian
In a small town tucked away in the Midwestern cornfields, the adults whisper about Tornado Day. Our narrator, a high school sophomore, has never heard this phrase but she soon discovers its terrible meaning—a plague of sentient tornadoes is coming to destroy them.
The only thing that stands between the town and total annihilation is a teen boy known as the tornado killer. Drawn to this enigmatic boy, our narrator senses an unnatural connection between them. But the adults are hiding a secret about the origins of the tornadoes and the true nature of the tornado killer—and our narrator must escape before the primeval power that binds them all comes to claim her.
Audaciously conceived and steeped in existential dread, this genre-defying fever dream of a novel reveals the mythbound madness at the heart of American life.
Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?
A Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2023, The Guardian's Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Book, and a BookRiot Don't-Miss Horror Novel. The Guardian praises it as “a powerfully weird, original tale that combines American folk horror with a surreal coming-of-age nightmare.” The Chicago Tribune calls it “wonderful, improbable,” unfolding dream logic into an epic story of leaving home. The Daily Mail highlights its “super-storm of psycho-sexual intensity” and advises readers to “just get swept up and enjoy the ride.”
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781683693277
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 August 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Quirk Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 134.0mm
Height: 202.0mm
Weight: 336g
Pages: 352
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About the Author
James Kennedy is the author of the horror thriller Bride of the Tornado, which the Guardian named one of the "Best Recent Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Novels" in September 2023. James's previous books include the sci-fi novel Dare to Know, which was named by the Times Saturday Review as a Best Sci-Fi Book of 2021, and the young adult fantasy The Order of Odd-Fish. In addition, James is the founder of the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival, an annual video contest in which kid filmmakers create short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery-winning books in about 90 seconds. He also hosts the Secrets of Story podcast with Matt Bird. James lives in Chicago.
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