The Cabin at the End of the World

Summary

While vacationing at a remote New Hampshire cabin, a married couple and their adopted daughter are taken hostage by four strangers who claim the family must willingly sacrifice one of their own to stop the apocalypse. The intruders insist they are not killers but reluctant prophets, and the terror builds from the impossible moral choice they demand rather than from any clear supernatural proof. Tremblay sustains brutal ambiguity throughout, forcing readers to weigh love against the possible end of the world without ever confirming whether the visions are real.