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October Focus on Horror: Ally Wilkes

About Blog Post Oct 18, 2024 by SCLSNJ Staff
October Focus on Horror: Ally Wilkes Created by Bob Helmbrecht, collection development librarian Our Focus on Horror Month author for today is Ally Wilkes.  "All the White Spaces," the author's debut novel, was released in 2022. It is a historical supernatural thriller, set during an early 20th-century Antarctic expedition. The book was very well-received, included in "Esquire's" Best Horror Novels of 2022 list, and was also a nominee for the Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Wilkes' next novel moved from the bottom to the top of the world. Released in 2023, "Where the Dead Wait" is set during the Victorian era, where a disgraced explorer whose previous expedition resorted to cannibalism to fend off starvation returns to the Arctic to try to rescue a former shipmate. Author Alma Katsu said of the novel: "Beautiful, brilliant writing about good men (and bad) facing the unimaginable. I was swallowed whole by Ally Wilkes' terrifying story of Arctic survival. Dare I say it's better than Dan Simmons' 'The Terror'?" Check out a book by Ally Wilkes today!
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