The Pallbearers Club - Paul Tremblay - Image 2

The Pallbearers Club – Paul Tremblay

Name: The Pallbearers Club - Paul Tremblay
SKU: 128
Availability: InStock

£8.99

A lonely teen’s funeral club leads to a decades-long, unsettling relationship that blurs memory, truth, and possible supernatural influence.

Unreliable Narrator

2 in stock

Overview
Synopsis

Socially isolated teenager Art decides to create a volunteer club to attend the funerals of strangers. As his relationship develops with the enigmatic Mercy over time, her influence becomes more and more manipulative and Art starts to question his own memories and reality.

If you enjoy a psychological horror with an unreliable narrator, then The Pallbearers Club should be your next read! If you’re a fan of Tremblay’s A Head Full Of Ghosts or The Cabin at the End of the World, then the eerie ambiguity of this book will hook you in.

All Nightmare Nook Books are selected by our chief Book Ghoul, Cat. Here’s why she accepted the invite to join The Pallbearers Club:

“Paul Tremblay gets a lot of praise for the unexpected, and what’s better than picking up a book and having your world turned upside down by it?”

Condition:

New and ready to haunt

Synopsis

1988, and puberty has hit Art Barbara hard – he's a painfully socially awkward teenager, underweight, acne-ridden, and bent crooked by scoliosis. Worse, he has no extra credits to get him into college. So Art starts the Pallbearers’ Club, dedicated to mourning the homeless and lonely – the people with no one else to bury them. It might be a small club, unpopular and morbid, but it introduces Art to Mercy Brown, who is into bands, local history, folklore and digging up the dead.

Decades later, Art is writing his memoir to try and make sense of it all, because nothing about Mercy is simple. It’s all a matter of trust, right? Their friendship twists and coils around the pair of them, captured in Polaroid snapshots and sweaty gigs and the freaky, inexplicable flashes of nightmare that lurk in a folded jacket at night.

Because Art is writing his memoir to make sense of it all, but Mercy is reading it too. Mercy thinks Art’s novel – because this isn’t a memoir – needs some work, and she’s more than happy to set the record straight. What if Art didn’t get everything right? Come on, Art, you can’t tell just one side of the story…

Seamlessly blurring the lines between fiction and memory, the supernatural and the mundane, The Pallbearers Club is an immersive, suspenseful portrait of an unforgettable and unsettling friendship.