An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate and his own redemptionโfrom the author of the "vivid, immersive" (The Guardian) horror novel All the White Spaces. William Day should be an acclaimed Arctic explorer. But after a failed expedition, in w
Where the Dead Wait : A Novel
โ Scribed by Ally Wilkes
- Publisher
- Atria/Emily Bestler Books
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate and his own redemptionโfrom the author of the "vivid, immersive" (The Guardian) horror novel All the White Spaces.
William Day should be an acclaimed Arctic explorer. But after a failed expedition, in which his remaining men only survived by eating their dead comrades, he returned in disgrace.
Thirteen years later, his second-in-command, Jesse Stevens, has gone missing in the same frozen waters. Perhaps this is Day's chance to restore his tarnished reputation by bringing Stevensยญยญโthe man who's haunted his whole lifeโback home. But when the rescue mission becomes an uncanny journey into his past, Day must face up to the things he's done.
Abandonment. Betrayal. Cannibalism.
Aboard ship, Day must also contend with unwanted passengers: a reporter obsessively digging up the truth about the...
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