Last Days

A Horror Novel by Brian Evenson

Subgenres:

Detective Noir,
Cult Horror,
Body Horror,
Literary Horror,
Undercover Investigation

Published 2009

Length 200 pages

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Disturbing cults obsessed with body modification and faith
Detective noir where the investigator pays a physical price
Literary horror that gets under your skin, literally and figuratively

Publisher Description

To find a cult leader's killer, a former detective must literally give up his body in this award-winning work of literary horror.

Nominated for the Shirley Jackson award and winner of the ALA/RUSA Best Horror novel, Brian Evenson's Last Days is an intense, profoundly unsettling down-the-rabbit-hole detective noir.

Kline is a former detective who's cool head in the face of a brutal amputation makes him the perfect candidate to infiltrate a dark cult that believes amputation brings one closer to God.

Kline is tasked with finding the cult leader's killer. But to get to the truth, Kline must lose himself—literally—one body part at a time.

Last Days was first published in 2003 as a limited edition novella titled The Brotherhood of Mutilation. Its success led Evenson to expand the story into a full-length novel. In doing so, he has created a work that's disturbing, deeply satisfying, and completely original.

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