Summer Scares Book Discussion: Horror Movie

A book club discussion of Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay — Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts and the novel behind M. Night Shyamalan's Knock at the Cabin.

In 1993, a group of young guerrilla filmmakers spent four weeks making an arthouse horror film. Only three scenes were ever released — but the movie has nevertheless attracted a cult following. Decades later, its sole surviving cast member is pulled back in when Hollywood comes calling for a remake. Told through alternating chapters of the original screenplay and the narrator's recollections, the novel blurs the line between fiction and reality in deeply unsettling ways. Less a traditional horror story than a meditation on obsession, identity, and what it costs to make something that refuses to stay fiction. Copies available to borrow at various NYPL locations.

SUMMER SCARES is a reading program from The Horror Writers Association (HWA), in partnership with Book Riot, Booklist, NoveList, and iREAD, provides libraries and schools with an annual list of recommended horror titles for adult, young adult, and middle grade readers. It helps start conversations extending beyond the selected titles and promotes life-long learning. New York Times best-selling author Jennifer McMahon and a committee of six library workers, led by HWA Library Committee Co-Chairs Becky Spratford and Konrad Stump, have selected three titles in each reading level.