Description: "Marvin [Burke] is one of the great monsters of literature, a figure of immense, credible terror and savagery." --Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother and coeditor of Boing Boing "The demon offspring of Stephen King's The Shining and Hitchcock's Psycho ." --Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Gone and BZRK "A memorable, brutal assault on the senses, not for the fainthearted or delicate." -- Publishers Weekly "Daniel Kraus writes raw and deft and dangerous. Consider yourself warned." --Adele Griffin, two-time National Book Award finalist "A boldly visceral coming-of-age story that explores the darkest spaces in family life and the shocking resilience of the human psyche." -- Booklist "This book has the pacing of a Stephen King movie, and it never lets up in its gruesomeness." -- School Library Journal "Connoisseurs of the grotesque have come to the right place, as Kraus' impeccable sense of thriller timing spins out the terror." -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "A Midwestern gothic family saga that will hook readers." -- Kirkus Reviews "So unrelentingly bleak, it stretches the very definition of YA horror." --Bloody-Disgusting.com "Scowler is dark, poetic, and challenging." --Rue-Morgue.com "For lovers of dark thrillers and horror narratives, Scowler is one crazy roller-coaster ride." -- Portland Book Review "Bound to scare up many jaw-dropping reactions." -- Chicago Tribune A Tayshas Reading List Selection A Junior Library Guild Selection From the Hardcover edition.

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