num_pages: 229
description: At Midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into a tree, killing three of them. One escapes unharmed, another suffers severe brain damage. A year later, summoned by the memories of those closest to them, the three that died come back on a last chilling mission among the living. A strange and unsettling ghost story in the tradition of Ray Bradbury and Shirley Jackson, "The Night Country" creeps through the leaf-strewn streets and quiet cul-de-sacs of one bedroom community, reaching into the desperately connected yet isolated lives of three people changed forever by the accident: Tim, who survived yet lost everything; Brooks, the cop whose guilty secret has destroyed his life; and Kyle's mom, trying to love the new son the doctors returned to her. As the day wanes and darkness falls, one of them puts a terrible plan into effect, and they find themselves caught in a collision of need and desire, watched over by the knowing ghosts.
language: English
title: The Night Country
titlecomplete: The Night Country
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Halloween, Ghost Stories, Supernatural, Ghosts, Death, Horror, Fantasy, Novels
ratings_count: 1490
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Bram Stoker Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux