North American Lake Monsters

How it reads

North American Lake Monsters is horror (literary horror short stories, specifically), and its dominant mood is dark. It goes to difficult places and doesn't look away. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in several locations, in the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are family, survival and loss and grief. 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 205 pages it's a quick read. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.