| Author: | James P. Blaylock | ISBN: | 9781936535712 |
| Publisher: | Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. | Publication: | December 4, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | James P. Blaylock |
| ISBN: | 9781936535712 |
| Publisher: | Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. |
| Publication: | December 4, 2012 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
It's a gray, wet winter in southern California, and Phil Ainsworth is alone. The sudden death of young wife has left him shaken, and he gets eerie sensations as he roams around the big, old house he inherited from his mother. He's sure he's seen people snooping around his property, by the old well that, in this wet weather, always seems ready to overflow. How much is real and how much is in his head? That's the question.
A late-night phone call brings more bad news: Phil's sister has died, leaving her ten-year-old daughter Betsy an orphan and naming Phil as guardian. It seems like a bad time to bring a child into this unhappy house, but Phil had always promised he'd take care of Betsy - and now she's all the family he has left.
What he can't know is that Betsy is a very special child. She has the ability to sense the powerful emotions of the past, to hear voices of the dead, and to see the uncanny powers that are closing in around this house...
James P. Blaylock has set the standard for the contemporary ghost story. The Washington Post called him "a master." Dean Koontz has hailed his writing as "first rate." A brilliant blend of psychological insight and unearthly phenomena, The Rainy Season blurs the lines between the past and the present, the living and the dead, fantasy and reality.
"This may be Blaylock's weirdest yet: intriguing, dramatic, atmospheric." -- Kirkus Reviews
It's a gray, wet winter in southern California, and Phil Ainsworth is alone. The sudden death of young wife has left him shaken, and he gets eerie sensations as he roams around the big, old house he inherited from his mother. He's sure he's seen people snooping around his property, by the old well that, in this wet weather, always seems ready to overflow. How much is real and how much is in his head? That's the question.
A late-night phone call brings more bad news: Phil's sister has died, leaving her ten-year-old daughter Betsy an orphan and naming Phil as guardian. It seems like a bad time to bring a child into this unhappy house, but Phil had always promised he'd take care of Betsy - and now she's all the family he has left.
What he can't know is that Betsy is a very special child. She has the ability to sense the powerful emotions of the past, to hear voices of the dead, and to see the uncanny powers that are closing in around this house...
James P. Blaylock has set the standard for the contemporary ghost story. The Washington Post called him "a master." Dean Koontz has hailed his writing as "first rate." A brilliant blend of psychological insight and unearthly phenomena, The Rainy Season blurs the lines between the past and the present, the living and the dead, fantasy and reality.
"This may be Blaylock's weirdest yet: intriguing, dramatic, atmospheric." -- Kirkus Reviews
