The Elemental
by:
Ulric Daubeny (author)
The Elemental has remained neglected for so long, for certainly Daubeny is a confident and engaging story teller with some fine original ideas: a haunting possession borne in on a tidal bore; a vampiric Sumach tree; an Egyptian relic engineering a return to its homeland; a strange, haunted...
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The Elemental has remained neglected for so long, for certainly Daubeny is a confident and engaging story teller with some fine original ideas: a haunting possession borne in on a tidal bore; a vampiric Sumach tree; an Egyptian relic engineering a return to its homeland; a strange, haunted musical instrument; a writer who can succeed only with the material he produces when possessed by an outside force; and a Borgia goblet which almost brings about the death of its owner. These are just some of the chills in store for the reader who is now able to read this edition.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781553103189
Publish date: 2013
Publisher: Ash-Tree Press
Pages no: 166
Edition language: English
Series:
Three and a half stars, hell give it four. Nice little collection of strange stories in a somewhat Jamesian tradition. Although there are seventeen stories here Daubeny manages to not repeat himself. These are not just ghost stories, when I say he doesn't repeat himself, I mean he doesn't use the sa...