A Boy Scout troop on a remote island off Prince Edward Island runs into something they can’t outrun. I picked this up expecting standard creature horror; what I got was a relentlessly bleak meditation on what the body can endure before the mind gives up. The structural conceit — interleaving the main narrative with trial transcripts and scientific memos — turns the dread into something almost procedural.
Not a book I’d press into everyone’s hands, but if you have the stomach for it, it earns every page.