The cottage at the end of the world

Would you sacrifice your family to save humanity? Winner of the Bram Stocker Award (2018) and named book of the year by Library Journal , NPR , and Buzzfeed , The Cabin at the End of the World is a masterpiece of horror and suspense, which inspired the film Knock on the Door , starring Jonathan Groff and Rupert Grint.

Seven-year-old Wen is vacationing with her parents, Eric and Andrew, in a secluded cabin near a tranquil lake in New Hampshire. The nearest neighbors are more than two miles away in every direction along a rutted dirt road.

One afternoon, when Wen is hunting grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway.
of the land. Leonard is the biggest man Wen has ever seen, but he is young and friendly, and he wins her over almost immediately. Leonard and Wen talk and joke until Leonard suddenly apologizes and says, "Nothing that will happen is your fault."

Three more strangers arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing-looking objects. When Wen runs inside to alert her parents, Leonard shouts, "Your parents won't let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world."

Thus begins an unbearably tense and gripping narrative of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that escalates until culminating in a devastating conclusion in which the fate of an inseparable family is possibly intertwined with the future of all humanity.

From the author of the award-winning thriller In the Darkness of the Mind, The Cabin at the End of the World is the book that inspired the 2023 film Knock on the Door , starring Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff and Rupert Grint.