C. J. Cooke is an award-winning poet and novelist published in twenty-three languages. She teaches creative writing at the University of Glasgow, where she also researches the impact of motherhood on women’s writing and creative writing interventions for mental health.
Cooke's newest novel is The Last Witch.
At CrimeReads she tagged seven novels "that not only chill but also takes a long hard look at the histories that have haunted us for centuries," including:
Alma Katsu, The HungerRead about the other novels on Cooke's list at CrimeReads.
The story of the Donner Party’s doomed journey west in 1846 is infamous, but Katsu reimagines their suffering as something darker than starvation and snow. As hungergnaws at the travelers, strange accidents multiply, men vanish into the wilderness, and whispers of something inhuman stalking them grow louder.
Drawing on survivor accounts and historical documents, Katsu fuses history and horror to transform one of America’s greatest tragedies into a tale of supernatural menace.
The Hunger is among Reedsy's one hundred best (and scariest) horror books of all time, Steph Auteri's ten modern horror classics keeping the genre alive, Sharon Virts's twenty scary books for Halloween, C. J. Tudor's five top winter thrillers, Brittany Bunzey's twenty-five "must-read, truly bone-chilling" horror books, Deborah E. Kennedy's seven hot mysteries set in the Midwestern winter, Meagan Navarro top ten scary good horror novels, Jac Jemc's top ten haunting ghost stories and Mallory O'Meara's top thirteen spine-chilling books written by female authors.
My Book, The Movie: The Hunger.
The Page 69 Test: The Hunger.
--Marshal Zeringue
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