She later began to realize that this class she was in wasn’t just a regular high school class, but a hidden class for “witches”. Cuando muchos lectores hablan tan bien de una novela, cuando todos dicen lo atrapante que es, decididamente voy a una librería y la compro.

In THE ELEMENTALS, he immerses us completely in a world familiar-yet-alien, and in doing so he creates one of the best settings in horror fiction. I was scared to get up at night and look at it, I was scared there was something that lived inside it.

It felt more like the beginning of a basic high school drama movie rather than what it turned out to be. They crept into shaded corners in the interior rooms, and strung hammocks inside for maximal circulation of air around their bodies. Something that has terrified Dauphin Savage and Luker McCray since they were boys and which still haunts their nightmares. Luker’s own mother, for example, gives her grown son long, semi-erotic foot rubs in front of the entire family and no one bats an eye. Esta novela fue escrita por McDowell en 1981 pero por suerte, existe en Argentina una editorial excelente y maravillosa, que se llama La Bestia Equilátera.

I love the characters and the scenic backdrop but my lord how long can you discuss people on vacation at the beach with a creepy house next door. When he develops India’s relationship with Odessa, it moves from India being awkwardly antagonistic because she is uncomfortable with this arcane inequality, presented as India needing someone to hate and it might as well be Odessa, to India being patronising of the woman and her situation. India chooses one person at a time to hate so that she can control her anxiety about not being allowed to be a child.To enhance that pleasure, I read it with a group of horror lovers over at Goodreads and we had a ball! The third house, by now owned again by the Savages, is dilapidated and is beginning to be swallowed up by a sand dune developing at the edge of the coast. Michael McDowell is just one more example of how this moralizing trend throughout history, only to remember those who “fit” better with the story of our past, is tragic. At the very beginning, he comes off as a mysterious individual, maybe causing me to be more intrigued by him, but t o be fair I don’t know. In “The Elementals,” Beldame is the private family vacation retreat they’ve been accustomed to all their lives.