A Cosmology of Monsters: A Novel

Authors: Hamill, Shaun
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC045000, FIC015000, FIC009070
ISBN: 9781524747688, Related ISBNs: 052556392X, 0593148479, 0593148487, 152474767X, 1524747688
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 336,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: "If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. I loved it.” —Stephen King

Noah Turner sees monsters.

His father saw them—and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dark, an immersive horror experience that the whole family operates.

His practical mother has caught glimpses of terrors but refuses to believe—too focused on keeping the family from falling apart.

And his eldest sister, the dramatic and vulnerable Sydney, won't admit to seeing anything but the beckoning glow of the spotlight . . . until it swallows her up.

Noah Turner sees monsters. But, unlike his family, Noah chooses to let them in . . .
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