The Pit

After a car accident, Ogi wakes up in hospital paralysed. His wife is dead, and the only person he has left in the world is his mother-in-law. And a house with a large garden, his wife's pride and joy. His mother-in-law is also doing something in the garden. But Ogi can only speculate as to what that something is. He also has no idea how much the old woman knows about him from her daughter's paranoid notes.
The thriller by Korean writer Pyun Hye-young fulfils genre expectations. Without unnecessary detours or stylistic padding, it guides the reader through the plot, dosing out tension and information, revealing the characters of both main protagonists step by step. The reader's imagination can work along right up to the very last page.
In 2017, the book received the Shirley Jackson Award for horror and dark fantasy.
The success of the novel is also evidenced by the fact that a film version is currently in the works.