Pearl

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Josh Malerman

From Josh Malerman, the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie, comes the legend of Pearl, a strange new monster unlike any other in horror (previously published as On This, the Day of the Pig).NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “Daring readers should find this tale of a malevolent telepathic pig to be a memorable experience.”—Booklist (starred review)There’s something strange about Walter Kopple’s farm. At first it seems to be his grandson, who cruelly murders one of Walter’s pigs in an act of seemingly senseless violence. But then people in town begin to whisper that Walter’s grandson heard a voice commanding him to kill.And that the voice belongs to a most peculiar creature: the pig named Pearl.Walter is not sure what to believe. He knows he’s always been afraid of the strangely malevolent Pearl. But as madness and paranoia grip the town and the townspeople descend on Walter’s farm with violent wrath, they begin to discover that true evil wears a human face.

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Author

Josh Malerman

Pages

304

Publisher

National Geographic Books

Published Date

2021-10-12

ISBN

0593237838 9780593237830

Ratings

Google: 4

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"This book is twisted and messed up but it’s so good I couldn’t put it down. Total thriller and mystery!"

kailey Bowsh

"surreal and horrifying, the perfect nightmare "

"Was genuinely really excited to read this one after stumbling across an insta real raving about it but I barely mad it halfway. This was also my first “horror” novel. In the first 80 pages it’s interesting but then it just gets….. slow and repetitive. It felt like I was rereading the saaaame thing every chapter. I realized I wasn’t actually trying to finish the book out of enjoyment but rather just so I could be done with it. That’s when I just had to put it back on the shelf. "

Karyn Beaty

"Honestly my favorite book of all time is probably Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones, but some other favorites are American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, Clive Barker’s Books of Blood: Volumes 1-3, We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe, and The Demonologist by Gerald Brittle."

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Shaun Hathaway

"<strong>Weird</strong><br/><br/>If you want to read a book about a smart telepathic pig that makes people do things then this is a book for you. Pearl was a creepy book about what a pig would do if they can control people"