Hi Guys;

This may be an odd request but I'm looking for a good bunch of books set in winter.
There are a few like The scandinavian authors of late but I'm looking more for something more than just a murder mystery.

I like a little supernatural, a little apocalyptic, horror, etc…

I loved The Stand, The Twelve, The Passage, The Terror,
(Clearly I need to stop reading books starting with 'the')
Outpost (adam Baker) that sort of thing.

I loved the movie the Thing (remake),the Alien movies, Solaris, if that helps as far as the kind of plots I enjoy.

I know I'm being specific but I'm just trying to stay away from moronic writing.
(There's a ton of books out there that tend to read like YA when they're advertised as a novel for an older audience, I'm trying to avoid that)

Any help would be great,
Drew

P.S. I'm reading Wool right now. Loving it.

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A series that might have most of the elements you are looking for is the Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin. Some supernatural aspects, parts of the books take place in/on an ice wall, medieval time frame, with dragons and other such things from mythology. The books 1-5 run to over 4500 pages...and there are at least two more to be written. HBO has made a mini series from books 1 and 2.

Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun (a four-novels series) has a bit of it all.

The tetralogy chronicles the journey and ascent to power of Severian, a disgraced journeyman torturer who becomes Autarch, the one ruler of the free world. It is a first-person narrative, ostensibly translated by Wolfe into contemporary English, set in the distant future when the Sun has dimmed and Earth is cooler (a "Dying Earth" story).

The pacing is a bit odd (some people find it slow, others think it works great for the book) but it's worth looking at.

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David Wellington has a werewolf story which is set in the north, I think Alaska or Canada. Different kind of werewolf tale, but interesting. He also has several other books, don't know about the setting for them.

If you enjoyed "The Thing" and want a similar type of thriller/adventure/sci-fi read you might want to try Ice Hunt by James Rollins.

Carved into a moving island of ice twice the size of the United States, Ice Station Grendel has been abandoned for more than seventy years. The twisted brainchild of the finest minds of the former Soviet Union, it was designed to be inaccessible and virtually invisible. But an American undersea research vessel has inadvertently pulled too close--and something has been sighted moving inside the allegedly deserted facility, something whose survival defies every natural law. And now, as scientists, soldiers, intelligence operatives, and unsuspecting civilians are drawn into Grendel's lethal vortex, the most extreme measures possible will be undertaken to protect its dark mysteries--because the terrible truths locked behind submerged walls of ice and steel could end human life on Earth.

Infected Series by Scott Sigler --> http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/scott-sigler/infected.htm

At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft:
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This might also fit your criteria:

http://christopherfulbright.com/?p=966

Anne Bishop : Written In Red (Fantasy)

As a cassandra sangue, or blood prophet, Meg Corbyn can see the future when her skin is cut -- a gift that feels more like a curse. Meg’s Controller keeps her enslaved so he can have full access to her visions. But when she escapes, the only safe place Meg can hide is at the Lakeside Courtyard -- a business district operated by the Others.

Shape-shifter Simon Wolfgard is reluctant to hire the stranger who inquires about the Human Liaison job. First, he senses she’s keeping a secret, and second, she doesn’t smell like human prey. Yet a stronger instinct propels him to give Meg the job. And when he learns the truth about Meg and that she’s wanted by the government, he’ll have to decide if she’s worth the fight between humans and the Others that will surely follow.

It's the first book of the series.

I loved the movie the Thing (remake)

I assume you've already read Who Goes There? which was the basis for all three Thing films?

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