Hitchers

An interesting premise that's explained well enough to make it almost seem possible & quite horrible. What if a dead person hitched along in your body? The limits on the communication & all were very well done. They added to the horror of the situation for all concerned. So much is unknown. The gove......more

Inventive ghost-story / apocalypse hybrid keeps you guessing about what will happen next. I read this a couple of years ago, and I've been surprised at how some of the more poetic images have stayed with me. Like the best ghost stories, it's emotionally resonant.......more

Looking back now, I can't believe that I had no idea who Will McIntosh was before I started reading Hitchers. Once I got into the book, and realized how great it was, I started poking around on the interwebs to find out more about him. Hitchers is only McIntosh's second novel, but he's written and pu......more

Finn Darby’s wife and grandfather died on the same day. While Finn misses his beloved Lorena, he doesn’t really miss his grandfather Tom – a tight-fisted, alcoholic, racist, abusive old bastard. Tom Darby created Toy Shop, a long-running newspaper comic strip, and refused to ever let Finn – an aspir......more

I apparently got this book in a Humble Story Bundle or something. We went off for a couple of days and our cabin didn't have internet. I found this on my Kindle, so I read it. A giant anthrax attack has killed a horrifying number of people in Atlanta. In its aftermath, people are finding that the dea......more