A Quiet Place: Day One is coming to your theater soon, but before you can get your popcorn and settle into your seat, let’s talk about what to read if you’re a fan of these emotionally charged post-apocalyptic films! Whether you’re anticipating when you can get to the theater or you want to keep the horror vibes going after the credits end, check out some of these stories that will keep the Quiet Place chills running throughout the summer!
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Amanda and Clay are escaping NYC to a remote area of Long Island for some family time and relaxing. When someone knocks on their door late at night after they arrive, they encounter Ruth and G.H., an older couple who own the house. Ruth and G.H. announce that a blackout has swept the city and now the area they are in has no internet or cell phone service. Should the couples even trust one another? Is what is happening in the city coming their way?
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Blindness by Saramago
When the city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” the authorities hold the blind in an empty mental hospital. In the hospital, a criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food and raping the women. One eyewitness is now guiding seven strangers to safety through the desolate streets including a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, and a dog.
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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
On the same night that the famous Hollywood actor, Arthur Leander, dies of a heart attack, a flu pandemic hit the city and within weeks, most of civilization was gone. Twenty years later, Kirsten Raymonde travels with a small group of musicians and actors whose mission is to keep the art alive called The Traveling Symphony. When they reach St. Deborah by the water, the group is forced to face a violent prophet who could wipe them from what’s left of the world.
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The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
In Gracetown, Florida in the year 1950, twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr. is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys reformatory after he kicks another child while defending his sister. Robbie was once comforted by his ability to see ghosts after his mother had passed away, but now he is disturbed after going into the reformatory where other boys have gone missing. While Robbie fights to survive, his sister is trying to get anyone she can on the outside to help get Robbie out before it’s too late.
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And then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
From the outside looking in, Alice seems to have it all. She has a beautiful baby, a husband whose academic area of study is Alice’s Mohawk culture, and they just got a new place in a posh area of Toronto. The reality is Alice doesn’t feel a connection t o her daughter, she’s having a hard time being the only Indigenous woman in the community, and she recently lost her mother. When Alice begins to hear strange voices and feels like her neighbors animosity is becoming threatening, Alice begins to fear something sinister is on the horizon.
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The Bright Lands by John Fram
Joel Whitley is returning to his conservative hometown of Bentley for the first time in a decade when his younger brother, Dylan, goes missing. Joel hasn’t been to Bentley since he left the town to live his life as a gay man in New York. Upon his return, he is reunited with Starsha Clark, who is reminded of her own brother’s disappearance and now works as a sheriff deputy. When rumors swirl of Dylan’s disappearance, Joel and Starsha team up to not only search for Dylan, but take on a group of men who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried.
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Hide by Kiersten White
In a new competition, fourteen people are competing for seven days in an attempt to win enough money to change the course of their lives forever. The only catch? You have to spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and cannot be caught. Mack is sure she can win this competition as her hiding skills are why she’s alive and her family is dead. When other competitors begin to disappear, Mack finds something more sinister could be brewing behind the scenes.
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The Gathering by C.J. Tudor
In a small Alaskan town, a young boy is found dead with his blood drained from his body, the first body found like this in over two decades. Everyone in Deadhart knows who did this, it was a member of the Colony, a community of vampires who live in an old mine deep in the woods. Detective Barbara Atkins, who specializes in vampires, and her colleague Sheriff Jenson Tucker begin their investigation. Jenson was the one who investigated the previous vampire killing and it almost cost him his life. As soon as the two begin to get answers, another body is found and the two begin to wonder if this is the work of a member of the Colony or just a brutal killer.
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