Fever Dream

How it reads

Fever Dream is horror (psychological horror, specifically), and its dominant mood is eerie. It's atmospheric and uncanny, with a sense that something is wrong. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in a rural setting, in the present day, told in the first person by several narrators. Its central concerns are family, survival and secrets. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is left open, for you to argue about. At 183 pages it's a single-sitting book. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.