Allison Gunn is a professional researcher, writer, and podcaster with a penchant for all things whimsical and strange. An alum of the University of Maryland, she has extensively studied marginalized communities as well as Appalachian folklore and the occult. She currently resides in the wonderfully weird land of West Virginia with her twin daughters, a precocious pup, and one seriously troubled tabby.
Nowhere is her first novel.
At Electric Lit Gunn tagged "seven terrifying horror novels set in small towns." One title on the list:
Sharp Objects by Gillian FlynnRead about the other entries on the list at Electric Lit.
A terrifying examination of broken families, Sharp Objects slices through the thin veneer of congeniality that covers a multitude of sins in small-townculture. Journalist Camille Preaker returns to her Missourian hometown to investigate the recent murders of two young girls. Flynn takes readers on a wild ride, evoking a visceral pain as Camille battles horrific memories of her past before crashing into a jaw-dropping ending.
Sharp Objects is among Lucy Foley's six top stories of folk horror, Katherine Higgs-Coulthard's top six crime-in-the-family thrillers, Zach Vasquez's seven dark novels about motherhood, Christina Dalcher's seven crime books that challenge the idea of inherent female goodness, Nicole Trope's six domestic suspense novels where nothing is really ever what it seems, Heather Gudenkauf's ten great thrillers centered on psychology, and Peter Swanson's ten top thrillers that explore mental health.
--Marshal Zeringue
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