Naked Revenants and Other Fables of Old and New England

✍ Scribed by Thomas, Jonathan

• Book ID: 109444224
• Publisher: Hippocampus Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 212 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781614981992

✦ Synopsis

This fifth short story collection by acclaimed weird fictionist Jonathan Thomas presents more of the scintillating fiction that Thomas has displayed ever since the publication of Midnight Call and Other Stories (2008). Thomas, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, has artfully utilized both the past and the present of his native region for tales that tease out the latent terrors of New England. �Young Goodman Brown,� set in the 17th century, presents a brilliant fusion of themes found in the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne and H. P. Lovecraft. Continuing the Lovecraftian theme, �Shed a Tear for Asenath� exhibits the diary of Edward Derby, the doomed husband of Asenath Waite in Lovecraft�s �The Thing on the Doorstep.� Moving up to the present, �Plenty of Irem� reveals what an employee of Kingsport Community College discovers at the dubious Mugford Museum. In �Gone to Doggerland,� photos of a recently deceased old lady show her with the dreaded �Innsmouth look.�