From the back of the book- 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 rise above 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...
Review- This is one of the best southern gothic horror novels that I have ever read. This is a wonderful written novel about creeping dread that hunts your family across the generations and now is coming for you. McDowell is from Alabama and knows the coast very well and that comes out in his descriptions of the coast and areas around it. The reader can feel the heat of the June sun, hear the surf pounding the shore, and the hiss of the sand will send chills up your spine. India has never been to Alabama but when her aunt's mother-in-law dies, India and her father Luker, head to Mobile for the funeral and then to Beldame to recover and relax in the sun. But something is waiting for them there and India is drawn to it and what is means. This novel is chilling in the horror but it is a slow burn, I did not mind as McDowell is a wonderful writer and I know the Gulf Coast of Alabama myself. I would highly recommend this novel for anyone who wants or loves to read southern gothic, McDowell does it the best that I have ever read. I will be reading more from him.
I give this novel a a very strong Five out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this novel from my local library.
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