Bride of the Tornado

"A powerfully weird, original tale that combines American folk horror with a surreal coming-of-age nightmare."--The Guardian

Stephen King's The Mist meets David Lynch's Twin Peaks in this surreal, mind-bending horror-thriller.

In a small town tucked away in the midwestern corn fields, the adults whisper about Tornado Day. Our narrator, a high school sophomore, has never heard this phrase but she soon discovers its terrible meaning: a plague of sentient tornadoes is coming to destroy them.

The only thing that stands between the town and total annihilation is a teen boy known as the tornado killer. Drawn to this enigmatic boy, our narrator senses an unnatural connection between them. But the adults are hiding a secret about the origins of the tornadoes and the true nature of the tornado killer--and our narrator must escape before the primeval power that binds them all comes to claim her.

Audaciously conceived and steeped in existential dread, this genre-defying fever dream of a novel reveals the mythbound madness at the heart of American life.

Author: James Kennedy
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: 08/15/2023
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781683693277

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/17/2023
Booklist 08/01/2023 pg. 37

About the Author
James Kennedy is the author of Dare to Know. Before becoming a writer, he was a computer programmer with a degree in physics and philosophy.