![]() ![]() Fans of Dan Simmons’s The Terror will find familiar and welcome chills. Alma Katsu The Hunger Paperback Septemby Alma Katsu (Author) 2,544 ratings Editors' pick Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Library Binding 31.99 6 Used from 15.50 1 New from 31.99 Paperback 12.99 1 New from 12. The members of the party come to suspect that shape-changers are responsible for the carnage, and they encounter increasing challenges to their survival. ![]() In one place, one of Donner’s teenage daughters finds hundreds of such letters, all with the ominous message: “Turn back or you will die.” Then a young boy disappears and is later found savagely mutilated, as if by an animal. Those headed west often leave letters under rocks in the hope that an eastbound traveler will retrieve them and take them to the nearest post office. Alma Katsu vividly recreates that nightmare trip in her latest novel, The Hunger (2018 376 pp.) She reveals in the novel’s Acknowledgements she takes many liberties in shaping the material for fiction and names, locations, and dates have remained but much else has been changed to fit the story, but the suffering and misery. George Donner is leading a wagon train to California. “What looked like a human vertebra, cleaned of skin” and a “scattering of teeth” lie outside in the snow. Add flour and toss ingredients in the pan to coat. Add oil and, when the oil is hot, add the meat, browning on all sides. ![]() In the prologue, set in April 1847, a team of rescuers sets out to find the last survivor of the expedition, Lewis Keseberg, but they locate only his abandoned cabin. Heat a Dutch oven on the stovetop or over a campfire using your favorite camp cooking method. Katsu ( The Taker) injects the supernatural into this brilliant retelling of the ill-fated Donner Party. ![]()
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