Cold Snap
A grieving mother and son hope to survive Christmas in a remote mountain cabin in Pennsylvania, in this award-nominated chilling novella of dread, isolation and sinister spirits lurking in the frozen woods. Perfect for fans of The Only Good Indians, The Shining and The Babadook.
Two weeks ago, Christine Sinclaire’s husband slipped off the roof while hanging Christmas lights and fell to his death on the front lawn.
Desperate to escape her guilt and her grief, Christine packs up her fifteen-year-old son and the family cat and flees to the cabin they’d reserved deep in the remote Pennsylvania Wilds to wait out the holidays.
It isn’t long before Christine begins to hear strange noises coming from the forest. When she spots a horned figure watching from between frozen branches, Christine assumes it’s just a forest animal—a moose, maybe, since the property manager warned her about them, said they’d stomp a body so deep into the snow nobody’d find it ’til spring.
But moose don’t walk upright like the shadowy figure does.
They don’t call Christine’s name with her dead husband’s voice.
Two weeks ago, Christine Sinclaire’s husband slipped off the roof while hanging Christmas lights and fell to his death on the front lawn.
Desperate to escape her guilt and her grief, Christine packs up her fifteen-year-old son and the family cat and flees to the cabin they’d reserved deep in the remote Pennsylvania Wilds to wait out the holidays.
It isn’t long before Christine begins to hear strange noises coming from the forest. When she spots a horned figure watching from between frozen branches, Christine assumes it’s just a forest animal—a moose, maybe, since the property manager warned her about them, said they’d stomp a body so deep into the snow nobody’d find it ’til spring.
But moose don’t walk upright like the shadowy figure does.
They don’t call Christine’s name with her dead husband’s voice.
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Community Reviews
I was very excited to read this one after seeing it on so many winter horror book lists but it did not live up to the hype.
A grieving mother and son go to a remote cabin in the snowy woods after losing the father a few weeks prior. Told from the mother’s perspective this is depressing and grim. She’s reliving the last moments of her husband’s life over and over and is obviously in no state of mind to be caring for her son, let alone drive him to an isolated cabin in the woods.
This one is very repetitive, very bleak, and honestly confusing. I did not understand the ending at all and it was so abrupt instead of being left thinking I was just mad.
Also there is a graphic cat death that was so unnecessary and so obvious that it honestly also just pissed me off. The writing was very good which is the only aspect that kept this one from 1 star.
I honestly can’t recommend this
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