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Last Days (winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel of the Year) by Adam Nevill is a Blair Witch style novel in which a documentary film-maker undertakes the investigation of a dangerous cult―with creepy consequences

When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film…

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1 author picked Last Days as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Last Days is such a powerful horror novel. It scared me. Fascinated me. And it kept me turning the pages. After reading an abundance of horror, I should be immune to fictional scares. But this story about Kyle Freeman, a down-on-his-luck filmmaker commissioned by a mysterious individual to make a documentary about a sinister cult known as The Temple of Last Days, is electrifying.

The plot serves as the adroit vessel that contains Nevill’s beautiful yet terrifying symphony of eerie images that would make my hair (if I had any) stand on end. Very few can write scary scenes…

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