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31 Days of Halloween – October 16
Images from the Library of Congress archives
ACCENT: AMERICAN GHOST by Hannah Nordhaus
I am very lucky to have a grandmother and a father who are very into genealogy and ancestry. She held on to family quilts and dug up photos of relatives long since gone. I have the strange privilege of looking back on this people, 150 years ago, knowing that although we never met, we are…
But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?
Wishing you a literary Christmas with only high spirits of a brighter kind. “Why do you doubt your senses?” “Because,” said Scrooge, “a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an…
ACCENT: BLISS HOUSE by Laura Benedict
Laura Benedict refreshes the typical Gothic story with this novel. Set in present day Virginia, a recently widowed mother and disfigured daughter move in to the ancestral home. The house is nestled in an uncomfortable middle ground between Southern sensibilities and a modern life. The peace that the two seek is denied when the daughter…