The Elementals - Michael McDowell black history month The small town of Harrod’s

The small town of Harrod’s Reach has seen its fair share of the macabre

His cryptic clues-about Buffalo Bill and about her-launch Clarice on a search that every reader will find startling

Five years ago

an ostracized community of vampyrs living in an old mine settlement deep in the woods

and redefine what it means to be afraid

The Elementals - Michael McDowell black history month The small town of Harrod’sAfter 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