Do you feel like a different person during the winter in this two part stuff to blow your mind exploration robert lamb and joe mccormick examine the extent to which winter affects human health and culture from the winter transformations of the kwakwakawakw people to the latest studies on . The winter people has a consistently eerie atmosphere and some of its darker supernatural flights are reminiscent of stephen king usa today i dont believe in ghosts at least thats what i kept telling myself as i read the winter people i also dont need to sleep with the lights on i told myself that too. In the fall sarah a lass of 11 or 12 and her mother arrive at their cape cod summer house to meet the plumber and get the place ready for winter sarah asks her mother about the winter people those who live in the house while the familys gone. The winter people has a consistently eerie atmosphere and some of its darker supernatural flights are reminiscent of stephen king usa today i dont believe in ghosts at least thats what i kept telling myself as i read the winter people i also dont need to sleep with the lights on i told myself that too. The winter people by jennifer mcmahon buy now from amazon gertie dies in 1908 during a harsh and unforgiving winter in which her mother and father martin struggle to keep food on the table gertie isnt the first child sara has lost but her death is the one she has the most difficult time accepting