The Fervor
#2256 of 8,085 books · #207 in Horror
Shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (2022) and the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel (2023).
1944. WWII rages on. Despite being American-born, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko are in one of the internment camps in the Midwest when a mysterious disease begins to spread among those interned. What starts as a cold quickly becomes spontaneous fits of violence and aggression, even death. When a threatening team of doctors arrive, Meiko and her daughter team up with a newspaper reporter and widowed missionary to investigate. Something sinister is afoot, a demon from the stories of Meiko's childhood, hell-bent on infiltrating their already strange world.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- ISBN-13
- 9780593541579
- Topics
- Japanese-American internmentWWIISupernatural/folklore evil
Awards
- Locus Award for Best Horror NovelShortlisted(2023)
- Bram Stoker Award for Best NovelShortlisted(2022)
Other awarded books from Alma Katsu
- The Deep (2020)0 wins · 5 score
- The Hunger (2018)0 wins · 5 score
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