Cold Skin: A Novel (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Cold Skin: A Novel Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Shortly after World War I, a troubled man accepts a solitary assignment as a “weather official” on a tiny, remote island on the edges of the Antarctic. When he arrives, the predecessor he is meant to replace is missing and a deeply disturbed stranger is barricaded in a heavily fortified lighthouse. At first adversaries, the two find that their tenuous partnership may be the only way they survive the unspeakably horrific reptilian creatures that ravage the island at night, attacking the lighthouse in their organized effort to find warm-blooded food. Armed with a battery of ammunition and explosives, the weather official and his new ally must confront their increasingly murderous mentality, and, when the possibility of a kind of truce presents itself, decide what kind of island they will inhabit. Equal parts Stephen King, a phantasmagorical Robinson Crusoe, and Lord of the Flies , Cold Skin is literary horror that deals with the basist forms of human behavior imaginable, while exploring why we so vehemently fear the Other.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Cold Skin: A Novel Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Albert Sa?nchez: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Cold Skin: A Novel Friday, July 17 2009.

• We are never very far from those we hate.