Fans of Lord of the Flies will enjoy these similarly gripping stories.
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
A small group of children on their way to England from Jamaica are captured by a band of superstitious pirates and become involved in mutiny, murder, and a court trial in which the amorality of the children is disclosed.
A darkly comic suburban Gothic about a malevolent force that targets a group of Ohio misfits, harnessing their angst for its sinister designs.
Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward
Two siblings slip away under cover of night, bound for Nowhere—an abandoned ranch rumored to be haunted by its former movie-star owner and now a refuge for runaways. Freedom might lie ahead, but in escaping the devil they knew, they’ve entered something far worse. In the ranch’s burned-out shell waits a darkness that demands a terrible price for sanctuary….
A city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” whose victims are confined to a vacant mental hospital, while a single eyewitness to the nightmare guides seven oddly assorted strangers through the barren urban landscape.
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper’s son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
A genius boy and a girl raised unaware of gender in remote, separate schools far from the rest of the world encounter each other’s differences for the first time while making unsettling discoveries about their schools’ enigmatic founder.
Cast in a new show called Civilization, survivalist Mara and her four teammates, after something goes horribly wrong, stranding them In the northern wilds, face terrifying decisions as “survival” becomes more than a game.
When mother of five Charlotte Bridger Drummond becomes lost in the Great Northwest Woods, she is rescued by an elusive group of quasi-human beasts that force her to examine her previous notions about the differences between animals and humans, men and women, and wilderness and civilization.
