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The Elementals
A Horror Novel by Michael McDowell
Subgenres:
- Haunted House,
- Southern Gothic,
- Alabama Gulf Coast,
- Family Horror,
- Supernatural Horror
This book is for you if you're into...
- Southern Gothic haunted houses with secrets buried in the sand
- Families haunted by old nightmares and deadly beachside mysteries
From Little Stack
Summer in Alabama can be sweltering. Even on the Gulf Coast where the sticky heat can drive anyone insane. Three Victorian houses sit on a strip of land where fetid air and encroaching sand threaten to overwhelm the families that summer there. It’s already taken one house, where nothing but sand fills the empty halls. But two remaining families who stubbornly come back every summer are soon going to learn that vacant doesn’t always mean empty. Because there’s something living in that third house. Something thinking about them. Something that is imagining all the gruesome and glorious ways they can die.
After a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where three Victorian houses loom over the shimmering beach.
Two of the houses are habitable, while the third is slowly and mysteriously being buried beneath an enormous dune of blindingly white sand. But though long uninhabited, the third house is not empty. Inside, something deadly lies in wait. Something that has terrified Dauphin Savage and Luker McCray since they were boys and which still haunts their nightmares. Something horrific that may be responsible for several terrible and unexplained deaths years earlier - and is now ready to kill again.
A haunted house story unlike any other, Michael McDowell's The Elementals (1981) was one of the finest novels to come out of the horror publishing explosion of the 1970s and '80s. Though best known for his screenplays for Tim Burton's Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas, McDowell is now being rediscovered as one of the best modern horror writers and a master of Southern Gothic literature. This edition of McDowell's masterpiece of terror features a new introduction by award-winning horror author Michael Rowe.
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