The Elementals by Michael McDowell

Review:

 

I read this one for the Southern Gothic square.

 

 

The story begins with a funeral and an unusual tradition. Afterward, the Savage & McCray families escape to Beldame where there are 3 identical Victorian houses and nothing else. One house for each family and the third house which is being devoured by the sand.

 

I love the way the author introduces the characters and gradually gets you invested in them. He brings you into their world and the little quirks in their relationships. Then the supernatural gradually creeps up on you and bam!

 

I liked that the strongest characters were the oldest (the black maid/good witch) and the youngest (13-year-old girl skeptic) and the relationship that developed between them. The atmosphere is so descriptive that I felt like I was on the beach with them.

 

Great choice for Southern Gothic horror. Thanks to all of you who read this for previous Halloween Bingos and brought it to my attention with your amazing reviews.

 

 

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Bingo Call: 9/7/18

Reblogged from: Moonlight Madness

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What's in that house child knows more than you know. What's in that house don't come out o' your mind.

It wants to trick you into believing what's not right. Its got no truth to it.

You stand at one o' them doors thinking somethings behind it, nothings behind it. It's waiting for you upstairs, it's waiting for you downstairs, it's standing behind you.

 

The tension is building. I'm just dying to know what is really in the third house and who is going to suffer because of it.

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Halloween Bingo Tracking Post #3

 

 

 

 

Called:

9/1   Classic Horror

9/3   Cryptozoologist

9/5   Cozy Mystery (not on my card)

 

 

 

 

Read:

Classic Horror - The Exorcist

Murder Most Foul - Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper

 

 

 

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Bingo Call: 09/05/18

Reblogged from: Obsidian Black Plague

 

 

Cozy mystery: a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.

 

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