Our Winter Monster

(Hardback)

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Chilling holiday horror about an unhappy couple running from their problems and straight into the maw of a terrifying beast, perfect for fans of Paul Tremblay and Sara Gran Chilling holiday horror about an unhappy couple running from their problems and straight into the maw of a terrifying beast, perfect for fans of Paul Tremblay and Sara Gran For the last year, Holly and Brian have been out of sync. Neither can forget what happened that one winter evening; neither can forgive what's happened since. Tonight, Holly and Brian race toward Pinebuck, New York, trying to outrun a blizzard on their way to the ski village getaway they hope will save their relationship. But soon they lose control of the car-and then of themselves. Now Sheriff Kendra Book is getting calls about a couple in trouble-along with reports of a brutal and mysterious creature rampaging through town, leaving a trail of crushed cars, wrecked buildings, and mangled bodies in the snow. To Kendra, who lost another couple to the snow just seven weeks ago, the danger feels personal. But not as personal as it feels to Holly and Brian, who are starting to see the past, the present, and themselves in a monstrous new light . . .

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Praise for Our Winter Monster

Like a couples therapy session straight out from our nightmares, Our Winter Monster serves up a slab of profoundly unsettling relationship terrorprobing into the very nature of love by exploring what brings us together and what tears us apartwhile ripping the reader to pieces in the process. Dennis Mahoney is just the horror counselor we readers need to see us through this gripping chiller and survive.
Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters

Dennis Mahoneys Our Winter Monster is all the fun of 80s horror through a modern lenswild, gleeful horror at its best.
Sarah Langan, Bram Stoker Awardwinning author of Good Neighbors

While Our Winter Monster is a full-tilt horror story, its also a moving, nuanced character study of trauma and grief, and what happens when our hearts insist on beating after the worst days of our lives. Mahoneys a craftsman.
Keith Rosson, author of Fever House

A fun and frightening descent into the complexities of human connection and the monsters that reveal our innermost worries. Dennis Mahoneys Our Winter Monster blends a blistering pace with tremendous heart and empathy, the kind that feels like a guiding hand through the darkness. Mahoneys got the chops; hes here to scare you shitless while also proving that nobody is ever lost to the frigid temperatures.
Michael J.Seidlinger, author of Anybody Home and The Body Harvest


Praise for Dennis Mahoney

With its openly bleeding heart and philosophers spirit, the odd and undeniably affecting Ghostlove explores ways in which we haunt ourselves.
Paul Tremblay, New York Times Book Review

Quietly powerful . . . Mahoney can share shelf space with Dave Eggers and Stewart O'Nan.
Booklist, Starred Review

Athoughtful examination on how tragedy can change different people in different ways . . . It also reveals how we often avoid confronting the fear and pain that manifests in our thoughts.
Zyzzyva

Mahoney crafts sentences that take your breath away.
The Times Union (Albany)

Author Bio

Dennis Mahoney is the author of Fellow Mortals, a Booklist Top Ten Debut; Bell Weather, an Indie Next pick; Ghostlove; and My Heart Is Full of Blood. He lives in Troy, NY, with his wife, son, and dog.