The Taker was named a Top Ten Debut Novel of 2011 by Booklist, was nominated for a Goodreads Readers Choice award, and has been published in over 10 languages. The Taker, her debut novel, has been compared to the early works of Anne Rice and Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander for combining historical, the supernatural, and fantasy into one story.

It recently won Spain’s Kelvin 505 award for Best Novel (translated) and was also won the Western Heritage Award for Best Novel. The Hunger made NPR’s list of the 100 Best Horror Stories, was named one of the best novels of 2018 by the Observer, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s Books, and was nominated for a Stoker and Locus Award for best horror novel. Her latest are The Deep, a reimagining of the sinking of the Titanic, and The Hunger, a reimagining of the story of the Donner Party with a horror twist. About the Author:Īlma Katsu writes novels that combine history and horror. The writing is great, the story moves slowly and methodically toward a truly wonderful ending, and I think that I fell a little bit in love with Tamsen Donner. Think more of a historical fiction story with a sideline in what I can only assume the move The Ravenous must be like (I haven’t seen it yet – I knoAfter what we’ve been through, we’re all going mad.” I will say though, that if you go into this expecting some sort of Cannibal Holocaust-type situation you’re going to be terribly disappointed. As members of the party begin to disappear, they must ask themselves “What if there is something waiting in the mountains? Something disturbing and diseased…and very hungry?” Edition: While the ill-fated group struggles to survive in the treacherous mountain conditions–searing heat that turns the sand into bubbling stew snows that freeze the oxen where they stand–evil begins to grow around them, and within them. Whether it was a curse from the beautiful Tamsen, the choice to follow a disastrous experimental route West, or just plain bad luck–the 90 men, women, and children of the Donner Party are at the brink of one of the deadliest and most disastrous western adventures in American history. They cannot escape the feeling that someone–or something–is stalking them. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the pioneers to the brink of madness. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party.

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