The Elementals Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Michael McDowell
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
371

The Elementals by Michael McDowell Book Summary

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. McDowell’s first novel, the grisly and darkly comic The Amulet (1979), is also available from Valancourt Books.

“The finest writer of paperback originals in America.” — Stephen King

“Surely one of the most terrifying novels ever written.” — Poppy Z. Brite

“Beyond any trace of doubt, one of the best writers of horror in this or any other country.” — Peter Straub

“Readers of weak constitution should beware!” — Publishers Weekly 

“McDowell has a flair for the gruesome.” — Washington Post

“The Elementals is a fantastic haunted-house tale loaded with dread, eerie moments and good characters. Plain white sand has never been this scary or malevolent. It's the perfect book to read this October.” – Teri Harman, KSL.com

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Book Name The Elementals
Genre Horror
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Language English
E-Book Size 626.29 KB

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One of the best books I’ve ever read.. Do yourself a favor and read this masterpiece.

Good read. It was a slow build up but I reminded myself that I have 2023 smart phone brain and that maybe the author wanted it that way and I should be patient. I liked it. It was overall spooky and not in a very obvious way like most books

The Elementals. This book was a must read for me. I have a close family member who claims to be plagued by “elemental beings.” No, I don’t consider him crazy. And while this book is a work of fiction, I wonder if there is an element (no pun intended) of truth in the research the author did to write the story.

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Summary of The Elementals by Michael McDowell

The The Elementals book written by Michael McDowell was published on 01 December 2015, Tuesday in the Horror category. A total of 371 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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