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In this incendiary mash-up of horror and suspense, a notorious slasher film is remade…and the curse that haunted it is reawakened.
Fresh off the plane in L.A., here to visit the set of a new streaming horror series, journalist Laura Warren sees a man jumping from a bridge, landing right behind her car. It’s started, she thinks. Because the series she’s reporting on is a remake of a ’90s horror flick. A cursed ’90s horror flick, which she starred in as a child—and has been running from her whole life.
When Laura was eight years old, eight members of the cast and crew died in ways that eerily mirrored the movie’s on-screen deaths, making the film a cult classic—and ruining her life. She changed her name and her accent, dyed her hair, and moved across the Atlantic. But some scripts don’t want to stay buried.
Now, as the body count rises again, Laura finds herself on the run with her aspiring actress sister and a jaded psychic, hoping to end the curse once and for all.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593741900
- File size: 291064 KB
- Duration: 10:06:22
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- English
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Reviews
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May 1, 2023
Like the classic horror cinema it gleefully riffs on, Winning’s latest (after The Shadow Glass) crackles with both dread and dazzle. In 1993, seven-year-old Polly Tremaine starred in the cult horror classic The Guesthouse, a movie whose production was rumored to be cursed: eight of its cast and crew members died during and after filming, all in eerily similar ways to the deaths played out on screen. Thirty years later, Polly, who has reinvented herself as Laura Warren, heads to the set of It Feeds, a miniseries reboot of The Guesthouse that she’s covering as a reporter for Zeppelin magazine. There, she begins to have upsetting visions of the film’s famous monster, the Needle Man—and people start dying around her once more. Is a supernatural menace haunting Laura? Or is she being mercilessly pranked by her sister, Amy, the set psychic Beverly, or someone else in her inner circle? Winning keeps readers guessing right alongside Laura while throwing out crafty winks and nods to well-known horror films and their makers, and driving his tale to a cinematically spectacular finale with several surprising plot twists. Horror fans should grab the popcorn for this bloody and entertaining romp. Agent: Kristina Perez, Zeno Agency. -
June 10, 2024
Winning's (The Shadow Glass) supernatural whodunit is a self-referential journey through a multitude of '90s horror tropes. The Guesthouse was child actress Polly Tremaine's last--and only--horror movie. When the film, which was rumored to be cursed, achieved cult status, Polly changed her name to Laura Warren, became a journalist, and put the movie and Hollywood behind her. Years later, after many of her former costars have fallen victim to the movie's supposed curse, Laura returns to Hollywood to interview those reimagining The Guesthouse, but the curse and the film's sinister Needle Man are not done with her. This story is a fun and fiendish ride of breakneck plot twists and spooky ambiance that even delivers some jabs at the Hollywood remake machine. Narrator Stephanie Cannon helps keep the book's balance between scares and satire with her raspy yet sinister Needle Man whisper and depictions of vapid Hollywood archetypes. VERDICT One doesn't need a Needle Man to poke holes in the plot, but Winning has created an immersive love letter to late-20th-century horror cinema that will draw fans of supernatural slashers like flies to corpses.--James Gardner
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