SCRATCH MOSS
14,90 €
Scratch Moss is a devastating, five-timeline tale centred on a community first invigorated, then devastated by the coal mining industry in the most original folk horror novel of the year.
1865. Coal lies beneath Scratch MossHall and Lord Henry Brody is determined to get to it. But something else lurks below, something dark and evil.
1905. Reverend George Ackman has never known such godless people as those of ScratchMoss. But if not God, what do they believe in?
1945. Arthur works for the Coal Commission, visiting privately-owned pits ahead of their nationalisation. On his visit to ScratchMoss, he finds only misery and death.
1985. The miners have lost. Thatcher reigns supreme. And in the shattered community of ScratchMoss, rumours resurface about Red Clogs, a terrible presence in the land below.
2025. Divorced, fifty-something writer Joe returns to his hometown of ScratchMoss for the funeral of his father. Soon the memories of Joe's teenage years, and the horror that blighted the community, come flooding back
Scratch Moss - David Barnett - 9781835983195
Informations complémentaires
| Auteur | BARNETT DAVID |
|---|---|
| Éditeur | CANELO |
