{"product_id":"the-pallbearers-club-9780063069916","title":"The Pallbearers Club","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Paul Tremblay delivers another mind-bending horror novel . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club\u003c\/em\u003e is a welcome casket of chills to shoulder.\" - \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA cleverly voiced psychological thriller from the nationally bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Cabin at the End\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eof the World\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if the coolest girl you've ever met decided to be your friend?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt Barbara was so\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003enot\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ethought the Pallbearers Club was cool. And she brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOkay, that part was a little weird.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecades later, Art tries to make sense of it all by writing \u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club: A Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e. But somehow this friend got her hands on the manuscript and, well, she has some \u003cem\u003eissues\u003c\/em\u003e with it. And now she's making cuts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeamlessly blurring the lines between fiction and memory, the supernatural and the mundane, \u003cem\u003eThe Pallbearers Club \u003c\/em\u003eis an immersive, suspenseful portrait of an unusual and disconcerting relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTremblay, Paul:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePaul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of \u003cem\u003eGrowing Things, The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil's Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, \u003c\/em\u003eand the crime novels \u003cem\u003eThe Little Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNo Sleep Till Wonderland\u003c\/em\u003e. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e online, and numerous year's-best anthologies. He has a master's degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50660893032722,"sku":"9780063069916","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2a363532-6770-4e3d-9c14-808624a9dd6d.jpg?v=1733478655","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-pallbearers-club-9780063069916","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}