βThere are plenty of horror writers who can effectively conjure spooks and evoke squalor and desperation, but few can match Piccirilli's skill with wordsβ¦.One of the great strengths in the book is its supporting cast, deftly drawn individuals with their own histories, fears, and motivationsβ¦. .NOVEM
November Mourns
β Scribed by Piccirilli, Tom
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 155 KB
- Series
- Bantam spectra book
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Place of publication not identified, Southern States.
- ISBN
- 0553901540
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirilli's The Last Kind Words.
Two years ago Shad Jenkins went to prison for assaulting his
sister's attacker. Now he has returned to the southern mountain town of Moon Run Hollow, only to find that Megan is dead. No one knows how she died--or why she was found on Gospel Trail Road, a dirt path leading up to the gorge high above the Chatalaha River, where victims of yellow fever were once brought to die.
Navigating a world filled with abnormal children and clandestine snake handlers, one that is slowly being poisoned by illegal moonshine, Shad must pierce the townsfolk's superstitions and terrible secrets to find out the truth about his sister's death. But the Blood Dreams he's suffered from since childhood have taken on an eerie urgency, revealing to Shad the nightmarish form of an unseen adversary. Plagued by the wraiths that haunt the hollow, Shad finds himself increasingly unsure of...
β¦ Subjects
Southern States
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βThere are plenty of horror writers who can effectively conjure spooks and evoke squalor and desperation, but few can match Piccirilli's skill with wordsβ¦.One of the great strengths in the book is its supporting cast, deftly drawn individuals with their own histories, fears, and motivationsβ¦. .NOVEM