by Joe Hill
First published 2017
A Silicon Valley teenager discovers that a tattooed stranger called "The Phoenician" hunts him with a Polaroid camera that steals memories with each flash. A young man's first skydive goes wrong when he lands on a cloud that refuses to let him fall, trapping him on a living island of vapor high above the earth. In Boulder, Colorado, the sky splits open and rains down crystal nails that slice through skin and bone, forcing survivors to hide indoors as the deadly storm spreads across the globe. A mall security guard in coastal Florida stops a mass shooter and becomes a celebrity for gun rights activists, but fame twists his mind until a wildfire threatens his town and he reaches for his weapon one final time. Joe Hill crafts four separate nightmares where the impossible invades everyday life, turning familiar places into scenes of dread and ordinary people into victims of forces beyond their understanding.
Genres: science-fiction, adventure, horror, action
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: impossible-events, ordinary-people-in-extraordinary-circumstances
Setting: Boulder, Colorado, Florida, Silicon Valley
Period: 21st-century
432 pages · Hardcover · William Morrow
Content warnings: body-horror, graphic-violence