“Paul Tremblay delivers another mind-bending horror novel . . . The Pallbearers Club is a welcome casket of chills to shoulder.” – Washington Post
A cleverly voiced psychological thriller from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song.
What if the coolest girl you’ve ever met decided to be your friend?
Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended funerals. But his new friend thought the Pallbearers Club was cool. And she brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses.
Okay, that part was a little weird.
So was her obsessive knowledge of a notorious bit of New England folklore that involved digging up the dead. And there were other strange things – terrifying things – that happened when she was around, usually at night. But she was his friend, so it was okay, right?
Decades later, Art tries to make sense of it all by writing The Pallbearers Club: A Memoir. But somehow this friend got her hands on the manuscript and, well, she has some issues with it. And now she’s making cuts.
Seamlessly blurring the lines between fiction and memory, the supernatural and the mundane, The Pallbearers Club is an immersive, suspenseful portrait of an unusual and disconcerting relationship.
© 2022 HarperAudio (Luisterboek): 9780063069930
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 5 juli 2022
“Paul Tremblay delivers another mind-bending horror novel . . . The Pallbearers Club is a welcome casket of chills to shoulder.” – Washington Post
A cleverly voiced psychological thriller from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song.
What if the coolest girl you’ve ever met decided to be your friend?
Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended funerals. But his new friend thought the Pallbearers Club was cool. And she brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses.
Okay, that part was a little weird.
So was her obsessive knowledge of a notorious bit of New England folklore that involved digging up the dead. And there were other strange things – terrifying things – that happened when she was around, usually at night. But she was his friend, so it was okay, right?
Decades later, Art tries to make sense of it all by writing The Pallbearers Club: A Memoir. But somehow this friend got her hands on the manuscript and, well, she has some issues with it. And now she’s making cuts.
Seamlessly blurring the lines between fiction and memory, the supernatural and the mundane, The Pallbearers Club is an immersive, suspenseful portrait of an unusual and disconcerting relationship.
© 2022 HarperAudio (Luisterboek): 9780063069930
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 5 juli 2022
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AJ
29 sep 2022
"The Pollbearers Club" is a cleverly written memoir / psychological horror novel. It has all the right ingredients, clever writing, loads of undertones, witty interactions and complex character development and -interaction. The main memoir is that of multi-tallented person who fails to live up to his potential / meet his own expectations. The phrase "Generation X'ers hate themselves almost as much as they love themselves", was paricularly apt. The novella noir focuses on various levels and dimensions of vampirism which runs parallel to the memoir. Both stories are curated to interact with a clear stylistic and atmospheric intent. As such, neither story is as dark as one would image / prefer it to be. Maybe a tad too self-indulgent but still an extremely ambitious project; competently executed. 4/5
Madelon
21 okt 2023
Erg fijn boek dat nooit echt eng wordt maar wel enkele creepy scènes kent. Bovendien echt genoten van alle horror en muziek referenties.
M
17 feb 2023
Super strange but good. It's kind of boring though. If you go into this expecting a high action thriller or horror book you're in the wrong place. It's more like a coming of age story set in the 80s with a liiiitle bit of supernatural sprinkled in.
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