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Night Countryhas broughtTrue Detectiveback from the brink.
Its a fitting stage for Lopezs baroque horrors (corpsicle, anyone?
), but its also ripe with environmental threat and the hint of cosmic terror.
And, just like that first season, its literary as hell.
No contemporary writer is quite so adept at melding the noirish and the weird.
One of these days, they will have to base a season ofTrue Detectiveon a Barron story.
What if you were alone in the Arctic and your only place of refuge was haunted?
Paver squeezes every drop of anxiety from this premise, with a Poe-like focus on the pressure of solitude.
Is there a ghost, or is the protagonist going mad in his loneliness?
Stef Penneys prize-winning novel is an historical mystery set in the wilds of 1860s Canada.
Agoraphobia meant she was unable to travel to Canada for on-site research.
The protesters cries that we were here first pointed to more than just industrial and ecological unrest.
Its a rich stew from some of the best Native writers currently working in the field.
Characters inNight Countrykeep saying Shes awake.
I onlyhopeIssa Lopez is as daring in her conclusion.
Think missing tongues, irradiated corpses, cursed mountains, and lights in the sky.
Every winter, the town of Barrow is plunged into a monthlong night.
What does any thinking horror writer do with that scenario?
Bear Seasonspublicity team must have been thrilled with their timing.
Fictional apocalypses tend to be very pale.
The mutated fingerprints of John CarpentersThe Thingare all overNight Countryand its dead scientists.
Tim Lebbons new novel is poised perfectly between that paleobiological nightmare andNight Countrys environmental conspiracy.
Its more complex than that, but you know the drill.
What follows is a race against time and geography to contain the virus and survive.
you could see why I thought of it for this list.
Where Straleys work differs is in its dark whimsy and sunnier good humor.
What follows is an inadvertent road trip across Alaska in pursuit of the truth.
So far, weve kept heading north.
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