“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,
is an immersive, suspenseful portrait of an unusual and disconcerting relationship.