Where the Dead Wait: A Novel

"Haunting...Ominous." --The New York Times Book Review

A "wonderfully chilling" (Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author) polar gothic about a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate-and redemption-from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of All the White Spaces.

William Day should be an acclaimed Arctic explorer. But after a failed expedition, in which his remaining men only survived by eating their dead comrades, he returned in disgrace.

Thirteen years later, his second-in-command, Jesse Stevens, has gone missing in the same frozen waters. Perhaps this is Day's chance to restore his tarnished reputation by bringing Stevens---the man who's haunted his whole life--back home. But when the rescue mission becomes an uncanny journey into his past, Day must face up to the things he's- done.

Abandonment. Betrayal. Cannibalism.

Aboard ship, Day must also contend with unwanted passengers: a reporter obsessively digging up the truth about the first expedition, as well as Stevens's wife, a spirit-medium whose séances both fascinate and frighten. Following a trail of cryptic messages, gaunt bodies, and old bones, their search becomes more and more unnerving. The restless dead are never far behind in this "breathtaking achievement" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

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RaissaR
Jan 07, 2024
1/10 star
Honestly, what the heck did I just read. This book had so much potential but the author made it extremely long and very confusing. Two expeditions 13 years apart and I couldn't tell if it was the current expedition or the past expedition. Too much back and forth between characters. Too long of a book. Too many mentions of cannibalism with in depth description which maybe some readers will like but I surely didn't. This was by far, the worst book I have read.

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