Michael McDowell’s ability to capture how stifling and oppressive the heat is, is incredible. I’m pretty sure The Elementals is my first foray into the southern Gothic genre, and it did not disappoint. “Marian Savage had not been overtaken happily.” For something there, something they don’t like to think about, is thinking about them…and about all the ways to make them die This summer, with a terrible funeral behind them and a messy divorce coming up, they are looking forward to being alone at Beldame.īut they won’t be alone. The McCrays and Savages have been coming to Beldame for years. The third house, filling with sand, is empty…except for the vicious horror which is shaping nightmares from the nothingness that hangs in the dank, fetid air. Two of the houses at Beldame are still used. On a split of land cut off by the Gulf, three Victorian summer houses stand. Links: Goodreads, Amazon, Wordery, Book Depository
Edition: 2014 by Valancourt Books, 322 pages
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