Sauna Requiem
2018
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In Finland, four foreign exchange students decide to trade the hustle and bustle of the commercialized Halloween for something authentic and rooted in the local culture. Traveling to the middle of the forest, they find a place where rumor says the ancient tradition of the Sauna for the Dead remains alive. When darkness falls and the moon illuminates the forest, tradition really does come to life, and only the dead are admitted to the sauna once again.
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Author
Marko Hautala
Author · 13 books
Marko Hautala’s unique blend of psychological horror and realism has attracted readers of all genres, earning him a reputation as the Finnish Stephen King. His first novel The Self-Illuminated Ones (Itsevalaisevat, 2008) received the Tiiliskivi Prize, and in 2010 Hautala received the Kalevi Jäntti Literary Prize for Young Authors for Shrouds (Käärinliinat, 2009). He was also nominated for the Young Aleksis Kivi Prize in 2013 for Seeing Eyes (Unikoira, 2012). Hautala's literary sensibility was formed at an early age by horror novels and later on by his experiences working as a nurse at a mental institute in the early 1990's. The Black Tongue (Kuokkamummo, 2015) is Hautala's first novel to appear in English.
