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Scare yourself with these 6 terrifying apocalyptic books.
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#1 To Exist by Ashley Boynes-Shuck
It is a post-apocalyptic literary fiction novel by Ashley Boynes-Shuck. Published in 2015, with a new cover and the second edition in 2016, To Exist is about Shelby Weiss, the last female left of childbearing age in a post-apocalyptic America. Shelby is being hunted by the men in the book. It is very timely and relevant with a strong, complex, and introspective lead character
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Contributor: Ashley Shuck from Ultimate You
#2 The Hunt by Cassandra Wolf
Before man inherited the earth, God created the Jinn, invisible beings of fire and shape-shifters, who to this day walk the Earth hidden from mankind's senses. Only a gifted few can feel their presence or interact with them. They are the seers. Smart, alluring and a highly trained secret agent, Sheba Blair is a woman with exactly such a gift.
Having escaped the jaws of death in a plane crash, but dead to the world at large, Sheba has been enjoying a quiet life in the suburbs of Vancouver. One fateful day, unaware of her mysterious genealogy, Sheba crosses paths with the Prince of Jinns, Suliman. What unfolds from this encounter is a mind-boggling revelation of a centuries-old war, mystical creatures, dark secrets and sinister plans which threaten mankind..
Will Sheba discover who she really is? Can she save the earth from impending doom? The Hunt is a riveting story of interdimensional proportions, supernatural beings, doom, despair, hope...and love.
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Contributor: Ryan Kenna from Austin Macauley Publishers, LLC
#3 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Father and son go on a journey after some sort of nuclear warfare. The author doesn’t really explain why they are wandering, but are headed towards the coast. The writing is poetic and hauntingly beautiful.
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Contributor: Caleb Backe from Maple Holistics
#4 One Second After (John Matherson Novel)
This book is about three nuclear weapons that render all electronic devices completely useless. It causes the breakdown of society as you know it. It’s terrifying because something like this could actually happen.
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Contributor: Caleb Backe from Maple Holistics
#5 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
From the Contributor: I think 1984 by George Orwell is one of the greatest apocalyptic novels of all time. It encompasses all of the most terrifying aspects of our society -- isolation, greed, exploitation -- into a constricting, but addictive read that doesn't feel very far from our current reality. What saves it from being as dreary as it could be is Orwell's prose, but otherwise, I've never been more scared.
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Contributor: Bea Tanese from ShipMonk
#6 The Last by Hanna Jameson
Jon, a history professor from the University of Mississippi, was at a conference in Switzerland when a nuclear war broke out and the world ended. Now, two months later, there are still twenty survivors holed up in L'Hotel Sixieme - a place with a history of strange suicides and murder.
When the water pressure in the hotel starts acting up, Jon and a group of others head to the rood to check the water tanks. Inside one of them, they find the body of a young girl who clearly died just before The End and who's killer could still be in the hotel.
As the months pass and rations and relationships start deteriorating, Jon and the group are forced to travel even further away to find supplies. But is the danger they can all sense coming from the woods, the unknown outside world, or is it lurking among them?
A mix of dystopia and locked room murder mystery, THE LAST should be the most unique and unusual book of the season.
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Contributor: David Brown from ATRIA BOOKS
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