The Pallbearers Club

With blood-chilling twists, crackling humor, and a thrumming pulse in its veins, this beautifully spoken psychological thriller from the nationally renowned author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song is about an unforgettable—and unsettling—friendship.

What if the most attractive woman you've ever met chose to become your friend?

Barbara Art was so unhip. In the late 1980s, he was a lonely seventeen-year-old high school student who loved hair metal, had to wear a hideous back brace at night due to his scoliosis, and founded an extracurricular group for people who volunteered to carry coffins at low-key funerals. However, his new companion found the Pallbearers Club to be really cool. She also had her Polaroid camera, which she used to snap images of the dead.

Alright, that was a strange bit.

And so was her compulsive understanding of an infamous piece of New England mythology involving the exhumation of corpses. And when she was present, generally at night, other weird, terrible things would also happen. It was alright, however, since she was his buddy.

Many years later, Art writes The Pallbearers Club: A Memoir in an attempt to make sense of it all. However, this acquaintance obtained the text in some way, and she has some concerns about it. She's starting to make cuts now.

A vivid and tense portrayal of an odd and unsettling relationship, The Pallbearers Club skillfully blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination, the paranormal and the everyday.