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Winterset Hollow
by Jonathan Edward Durham
This magical realism horror fable is centered on Eamon, a young man with a tumultuous childhood, abused and neglected by his paranoid father. Eamon ends up in the foster system and is saved by a book of poems about brave animals in a lovely hollow.
Winterset Hollow is the idyllic children’s poem within this horror novel, and lovely, lyrical stanzas about community and wanderlust and loyalty and revenge are woven throughout the book.
Eamon and his two best friends get the opportunity to visit the mysterious island estate of Edward Addington, the author of Eamon’s favorite book.
Soon after arriving, however, they realize that Addington may not have been the hero they imagined but the island is much more than they could ever have dreamed.
Eamon, Caroline and Mike are joyous at the Barley Day celebration when they are served sumptuous food and spiced wine by the amazing real animals from the children’s poem, the Rabbit, the Frog and the Fox. But then the animals’ true reason for the invitations becomes apparent when Bing the Bear joins the party with his sledgehammer.
Violence, gore, vengeance, greed, betrayal, but told with such golden words and heartfelt emotion as Eamon’s entire life is turned upside down as he fights for understanding and survival.
The writing is lush and vivid. The mystery of the island and its draw on Eamon unfolds deliciously. I have never read anything like this and I loved it.
Winterset Hollow is the idyllic children’s poem within this horror novel, and lovely, lyrical stanzas about community and wanderlust and loyalty and revenge are woven throughout the book.
Eamon and his two best friends get the opportunity to visit the mysterious island estate of Edward Addington, the author of Eamon’s favorite book.
Soon after arriving, however, they realize that Addington may not have been the hero they imagined but the island is much more than they could ever have dreamed.
Eamon, Caroline and Mike are joyous at the Barley Day celebration when they are served sumptuous food and spiced wine by the amazing real animals from the children’s poem, the Rabbit, the Frog and the Fox. But then the animals’ true reason for the invitations becomes apparent when Bing the Bear joins the party with his sledgehammer.
Violence, gore, vengeance, greed, betrayal, but told with such golden words and heartfelt emotion as Eamon’s entire life is turned upside down as he fights for understanding and survival.
The writing is lush and vivid. The mystery of the island and its draw on Eamon unfolds deliciously. I have never read anything like this and I loved it.