The Elementals
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (829 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01HHB0WZ2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 276 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Definitely worth a read -" according to yesandthankyou. I will admit, I think this is the kind of book either you love or you hate. I, obviously, loved it, but I can understand why it would drive people away.This book starts us off at Marian Savage's sparsely attended funeral (and it is so for a reason) and bounds off from there. I enjoyed the relationship between the Savages and the McCrays, these two Southern genteel families that happened to find themselves together in a summer and drew closer from there. It's the Savages that are the stranger (and more interesting) of t. "Holds Your Suspense" according to Martin A Hogan. This is a good gothic, curse-ridden southern horror story that reads well. Taking place in the far south on the Gulf, the tale begins with the funeral of a matron with some strange burial rituals that set up the story. From that point on we get to know several family characters both direct descendants and those that marry into the family. The book is heavy with good ritualistic description and the characters are well-thought out. You get a feeling for each one and what their reactions might be.However, little happens i. "Sand is Not Your Friend" according to The Just-About-Average Ms. M. An amazing Southern Gothic tale--just this side of over the top, tongue in cheekiness characters whose names are perfect for the genre, and Lower Alabama, and whose speech is spot-on, suggesting through the judicious use of a few words like "gone" for "going" and "cain't" for "can't" the entire honeyed treacle-drenched cadence of Southern speech without having to actually wade through it on every page.The plot involves an old family compound on a back-of-beyond and nearly inaccessible spit of land on the Gulf of Mexico
Something horrific that may be responsible for several terrible and unexplained deaths years earlier - and is now ready to kill again. Something that has terrified Dauphin Savage and Luker McCray since they were boys and which still haunts their nightmares. Though best known for his screenplays for Tim Burton's Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas, McDowell is now being rediscovered as one of the best modern horror writers and a master of Southern Gothic literature. But though long uninhabited, the third house is not empty. Inside, something deadly lies in wait. This edition of McDowell's masterpiece of terror featur