John Searles is the best-selling author of the novels Help for the Haunted, Strange but True, and Boy Still Missing.
His new novel is Her Last Affair.
At Lit Hib he tagged five "books—all of them incredible—that use abandoned places as settings," including:
Jeff VanderMeer, AnnihilationRead about the other entries on the list.
Set in an alternate reality, Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer stars a team of four women who must venture into the unknown, deserted Area X, on a mission. Professionally, the mission is to scientifically observe the abandoned area, but, personally,the biologist is on a mission to search for her husband—who went missing on the last expedition into Area X. With their base camp set up in an abandoned tower, aided by notes left behind by previous explorers, the women race against the clock to understand the source of all the strange occurrences—before it’s too late.
Annihilation is among Rin Chupeco's five top stories where nature does its best to kill you and Nicholas Royle's ten top lighthouses in fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue
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