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The Elementals
by Michael McDowell
Savage mothers eat their children up!
I couldn't get enough of this book. So unique and so familiar at the same time. Such defined characters (and I include Beldame and the weather itself as characters) and such a sense of mounting dread. This novel felt so real and grounded in reality, that even though it wasn't necessarily an absolute shocker I would still count it as one of the most thrilling horror reads I've had in a good long while. So much is done with next to no gore, lore is built naturally and is almost lovecraftian in its intangibility. The dialogue was so well done I found myself reading it in a Southern accent without even thinking about it.
Incredible. No way I thought this novel could live to the praise I've seen it get, but damn if it doesn't come close. I'd give this novella 9/10 or more accurately; 2 out of 2 eyes swallowed...whole.
I couldn't get enough of this book. So unique and so familiar at the same time. Such defined characters (and I include Beldame and the weather itself as characters) and such a sense of mounting dread. This novel felt so real and grounded in reality, that even though it wasn't necessarily an absolute shocker I would still count it as one of the most thrilling horror reads I've had in a good long while. So much is done with next to no gore, lore is built naturally and is almost lovecraftian in its intangibility. The dialogue was so well done I found myself reading it in a Southern accent without even thinking about it.
Incredible. No way I thought this novel could live to the praise I've seen it get, but damn if it doesn't come close. I'd give this novella 9/10 or more accurately; 2 out of 2 eyes swallowed...whole.