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The Ritual is Adam Nevill's horror novel depicting a group of friends lost in a remote wilderness in Sweden where something supernatural lurks.
When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems…
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2 authors picked The Ritual as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book, a horror story, takes place in a remote forest in Sweden. This was not a familiar location to me, and that added to the creepiness. A combination of a monster story and murderous cult-like group and characters facing an impossible situation made this an enjoyable, slightly different horror story. I would definitely try something else my this author.
This is one of the few novels that genuinely scared me. I was so tense during the first half of the book when the friends were hiking in a remote Swedish wilderness and being hunted by… something. Nevill does an amazing job of keeping the tension through this part of the book pulled so taut that I was mesmerized.
Then I was completely caught out by the turn the novel takes around the middle and it started to appeal to everything I love about folk horror and the supernatural, and it appealed to my love of heavy music. One of…
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