'The road is long, the night is cold, and there’s terror at every pullout, nothing but dread between. ' horror-thriller hybrid that will chill even the most jaded readers.Give to fans of emotional, thought-provoking, nature inspired horror like The Only Good Indians (2020) by Stephen Graham Jones or Wonderland (2020) by Zoje Stage.' - Booklist (starred) Road of Bones is unrelenting and will chill you to your core.' -Paul Tremblay, New York Times Bestselling author 'Two men willing to risk their lives for a last-chance reality TV pitch find themselves on a white-knuckle hell ride on Siberia's infamous Kolyma Highway. Shamans and spirits, the undead and the feral, the creatures of the Kolyma Highway and the unimaginable horrors of its history make for riveting reading.' - The New York Times Book Review 'Golden, an economical writer, creates a mother lode of terror in just over 200 pages. It will take you to a place you’ve never been before, and the trip will scare the hell out of you. 'Christopher Golden’s Road of Bones is tightly wound, atmospheric, and creepy as hell.

Tor Nightfire Most Anticipated Horror Books It is a harrowing journey that will push Teig beyond endurance and force him to confront the sins of his past. Pursued by the otherworldly beasts, Teig’s companions confront even more uncanny and inexplicable phenomena along the Road of Bones, as if the ghosts of Stalin’s victims were haunting them. Only, when Teig and his team reach their destination, they find an abandoned town, save one catatonic nine-year-old girl-and a pack of predatory wolves, faster and smarter than any wild animals should be. Hundreds of thousands of people worked to death and left where their bodies fell, consumed by the frozen elements and plowed beneath the permafrost road.įascinated by the history, documentary producer Felix “Teig” Teigland is in Russia to drive the highway, envisioning a new series capturing Life and Death on the Road of Bones with a ride to the town of Akhust, “the coldest place on Earth”, collecting ghost stories and local legends along the way. Known as the Road of Bones, it is a massive graveyard for the former Soviet Union’s gulag prisoners. A narrow path where drivers face such challenging conditions as icy surfaces, limited visibility, and an average temperature of sixty degrees below zero, fatal car accidents are common.īut motorists are not the only victims of the highway. Surrounded by barren trees in a snow-covered wilderness with a dim, dusky sky forever overhead, Siberia’s Kolyma Highway is 1200 miles of gravel packed permafrost within driving distance of the Arctic Circle. An American documentarian travels a haunted highway across the frozen tundra of Siberia in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden’s Road of Bones, a “tightly wound, atmospheric, and creepy as hell” (Stephen King) supernatural thriller.

Road of Bones by Christopher Golden