The BOO*-k Club

Bailey and Mariah invite you to join them for BOO*-k Club (*Bloodcurdling, Ominous, and Otherworldly) each month. As avid horror readers, they cannot wait to explore some of the genre’s most interesting offerings by focusing on short story collections and novellas. Come get creeped out with us!

This month’s book is The Fervor by Alma Katsu. The BOO*-k Club will meet at 6PM on Friday, April 25th.

1944: As World War II rages on, a mysterious, deadly fervor spreads across America, transforming people into monstrous aggressors, each provoked into fits of unthinkable barbarity. It’s a contagion that, according to Meiko Briggs, might have dark, otherwordly underpinnings.

But Meiko and her daughter, Aiko, have been forced into an internment camp in Idaho, where the disease rapidly unfurls, and nearly invisible, demonic spiders seem to follow. More dangerous than the illness are the doctors who swarm the camps as a result, increasing their control on those captured, and their violence toward them. When Aiko suddenly escapes, Meiko must race against the clock to find her daughter and untangle the secrets behind the fervor before it catches her first.

With a keen and prescient eye, acclaimed author Alma Katsu crafts a terrifying story about the danger of demonization, a mysterious contagion, and a deep excavation of how we decide who gets to be human when being human matters most.

Purchase a copy to read, or grab it from the library, and join us Friday, March 28th for a thoughtful and entertaining discussion about When the Reckoning Comes. This book club is free to anyone who wishes to participate. No registration necessary.

Want to keep the conversation going after club? Join the BOO*-k Club Discord server!

Content Warnings for The BOO*-k Club 2024-2025
Content Warnings for The Fervor
Content Warnings for The Z Word
Content Warnings for Your Body is Not Your Body