The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek

McLaughlin, Rhett From the creators of Good Mythical Morning and authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett and Link’s Book of Mythicality, a thrilling and darkly funny novel in the vein of Stranger Things and The Goonies about two best friends fighting the darkness at the heart of their Southern townIt’s 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina, a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and an unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town’s cheerful façade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to The Whitewood School, a local reformatory with a record of putting unruly teens back on the straight and narrow—a record so impeccable that almost everyone is willing to ignore the mysterious deaths that have occurred there over the past decade.At first, high school freshmen Rex McClendon and Leif Nelson believe what they’ve been told: that the students