Hi y'all. I need some suggestions on some books. The kind which you read over a cup of coffee, looking out the window when it's pouring heavily. The kind you read on a bus ride in monsoon. The kind you read on a rainy Saturday night. 🌿
by Sea_Painting_7069
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*The Devil and the Blacksmith: A New England Folktale* by Jéanpaul Ferro
There is a huge flood in the last half of the novel that reminds me of the vibe you described!
It’s about a shadow person who visits a POW in Andersonville Prison Camp and offers him a way home back to his village in Rhode Island, but the two wind up in a wild odyssey of supernatural trickery, savage brutality, and a life and death battle that is very weird and haunting. Set in the same town in Rhode Island, Scituate, that H.P. Lovecraft set the “blasted heath” in The Colour of Outer Space,” it details how the town of Scituate that once had 14 villages ended up under water by supernatural forces. It isn’t like other horror novels in the genre. I think it takes more chances, is more literary, and the epilogue ending, which is a photographic scrap book is pretty damn haunting and unlike any book, of any kind, I’ve ever read. And it changes everything you just read before it into a new horrifying light. It is one of the many great aspects of the book!
Four Winds by Kristin Hannah