I regularly receive emails from my readers asking if there’s a sequel to Wolf Country. In the book I wanted to point out the dangers and horrors of a consumerist, extreme capitalist society. I think I have achieved that and made readers think about and question where our current world is heading to.
In that sense Wolf Country is complete and no sequel is required. The story of the characters, although important, is secondary to the intended social message and I’m working on my next novel now, another social horror. This is a genre I didn’t know existed but I had been secretly drawn to a long time before I started writing Wolf Country. Recently I saw a brilliant film that is definitely social horror, Speak No Evil. It seems to me that all of my future books will fit into this genre and I couldn’t be more excited about what comes next.
The new novel I’m working on – Giants Like Us – explores themes of extreme loneliness, alienation and vulnerability in a metropolis through the story of two very different main characters. Just by the organic dynamic of humans connecting and entangling I believe that often more real horror can be conveyed than in scary, gory horror scenes.
Tunde Farrand 