by Rob Zombie
First published 2013
Heidi Hawthorne works as an FM radio DJ at thirty-seven, fighting to stay clean after years of drug addiction. Depression creeps in as she struggles with sobriety. One day someone leaves a wooden box at the radio station. The box bears a strange symbol and contains a promotional record from a band calling themselves The Lords. No other information comes with it. Heidi decides to play the record on air as a joke. The moment the music starts, something wakes up in the town. Murders begin happening around Heidi. The strange sounds have stirred an evil force that connects to old family bloodlines. Bodies pile up as Heidi tries to understand who The Lords are and what they want from her. The music has unleashed forces that threaten to destroy everything she knows.
Genres: mystery, horror, supernatural, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: supernatural-forces, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Salem
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
336 pages · Hardcover · Grand Central Publishing
Content warnings: violence