The Book of Unfortunate Events

A STORY THAT COMBINES THE BEST MYSTICAL THRILLERS OF STEPHEN KING AND THE SERIES "STRANGER THINGS." A NATIONAL BESTSELLER. A FINALIST FOR THE PRESTIGIOUS LOCUS AWARD. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND LIBRARY JOURNAL. Once obsessed with numbers, the maniac Edmund Reeves failed the mission he considered sacred—to kill 99 girls in Rumble Rocks Park, in the field of stones. He was executed in the electric chair, and something much darker, hungrier, and more sinister settled among the mysterious boulders… Once, as a child, Nate lived in a rural house near Rumble Rocks with his cruel father. He never told anyone what happened there… Once, Maddy, as a little girl, saw something in her bedroom that she shouldn’t have seen. She tries to revive a forgotten childhood trauma by creating anxious sculptures… Now, Nate and Maddy Graves are married and happy. Together with their son Oliver, they move into Nate's childhood home. And what happened once repeats itself again. This time with Oliver—when he befriends a strange teenager. A teenager with very dark secrets… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Very well written. Very well translated. Gripping, unyielding, making you unravel mysteries as you read. And a very creepy story. I like it." — Alexander Klyukvin, the actor who voiced the book "Horror, scope, dynamics, unexpected twists – I have not experienced all this so fervently since King's The Shining." — Stephen Graham Jones "Move over, King – now Wendig is the new voice of American horror! This is a masterpiece, and Chuck has only just begun." — Adam Christopher, author of "Darkness at the Edge of Town," the official novelization of the world of "Stranger Things" "In the traditions of King's Dark Tower series, Wendig showed cosmic horror through the lens of the everyday, tying the grandiose to the mundane. As a result—a novel in which you wander, about