
There is a longtime couple, Eric and Andrew, who have taken a well-earned vacation in a remote cabin near a lake in rural New Hampshire. The moving parts are surprisingly mundane.

Here the author has stripped his narrative back to the most threadbare elements in a tale that is nearly impossible to review without unveiling some critical shocks. In this peek-between-your-fingers work of domestic horror, the Bram Stoker Award–winning author demonstrates a counterintuitive maturity in his writing even as he inflicts the cruelest possible scenarios on his unwitting victims. A striking work of psychological horror and unblinking terror from bloody fantasist Tremblay ( Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, 2016, etc.)
