Book guide
The Hunger
The Donner Party’s doomed journey becomes a nightmare of hunger, paranoia, and something worse.
GenresHorrorHistorical
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About The Hunger
Alma Katsu reimagines the Donner Party as a wagon train stalked by misfortune, suspicion, and an uncanny evil as they push west. As food runs out and fear spreads, the survivors must face both the wilderness and the darkness growing among them.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- child death
- gore
- blood
- murder
- suicide attempt
- racism
- homophobia
- violence
- infidelity
- animal harm
- incest
- suicide
- child sexual assault
- cannibalism
- pregnancy
- animal death
- body horror
- gun violence
- sexual assault
- child abuse
