Our Winter Monster

Praise for Our Winter Monster “Our Winter Monster is a truly satisfying blend of supernatural, survival, and physiological horror. Just as surprising as it is heartbreaking, every page pulls you deeper into a storm that you’ll never forget.” —Erin E. Adams, author of Jackal “Like a couples therapy session straight out of our nightmares, Our Winter Monster serves up a slab of profoundly unsettling relationship terror—probing into the very nature of love by exploring what brings us together and what tears us apart—while ripping the reader to pieces in the process. Dennis Mahoney is just the horror counselor we readers need to see us through this gripping chiller and survive.”   —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters “Dennis Mahoney’s Our Winter Monster is all the fun of ’80s horror through a modern lens—wild, gleeful horror at its best.” —Sarah Langan, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Good Neighbors “While Our Winter Monster is a full-tilt horror story, it’s also a moving, nuanced character study of trauma and grief, and what happens when our hearts insist on beating after the worst days of our lives. Mahoney’s a craftsman.”  —Keith Rosson, author of Fever House “A fun and frightening descent into the complexities of human connection and the monsters that reveal our innermost worries. Dennis Mahoney’s Our Winter Monster blends a blistering pace with tremendous heart and empathy, the kind that feels like a guiding hand through the darkness. Mahoney’s got the chops; he’s here to scare you shitless while also proving that nobody is ever lost to the frigid temperatures.” —Michael J. Seidlinger, author of Anybody Home? and The Body Harvest “A couple grapples with monstrosity in this tense horror novel . . . Mahoney pulls it off beautifully, with legitimately terrifying action scenes and a creeping sense of horror threaded through the book. But where he shines brightest is in his depiction—sensitive and accurate—of post-traumatic stress and anxiety . . . Smart, sensitive, and scary as hell.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review “Plenty of in-the-moment tension to hook readers’ interest . . . [and] plenty of blood and guts to keep horror fans happy.” —Publishers Weekly Praise for Dennis Mahoney   “With its openly bleeding heart and philosopher’s spirit, the odd and undeniably affecting Ghostlove explores ways in which we haunt ourselves.” ―Paul Tremblay, New York Times Book Review “Quietly powerful . . . Mahoney can share shelf space with Dave Eggers and Stewart O'Nan.” —Booklist, Starred Review “A thoughtful examination on how tragedy can change different people in different ways . . . It also reveals how we often avoid confronting the fear and pain that manifests in our thoughts.” —Zyzzyva   “Mahoney crafts sentences that take your breath away.” ―The Times Union (Albany)