The ways of old merge with the magical and fantastic in this wondrous world. Experience Westermead's thaw and awakening season by season, the lush heat of summer's passion and the retreat into winter's desolate embrace. Come celebrate and mourn with the people of Westermead as they make their way through a world steeped both in beauty and dread. More than just a collection of tales, Westermead brings to life an enchanted country where the supernatural is as natural as the sunrise. Follow the intrepid ...
The ways of old merge with the magical and fantastic in this wondrous world. Experience Westermead's thaw and awakening season by season, the lush heat of summer's passion and the retreat into winter's desolate embrace. Come celebrate and mourn with the people of Westermead as they make their way through a world steeped both in beauty and dread. More than just a collection of tales, Westermead brings to life an enchanted country where the supernatural is as natural as the sunrise. Follow the intrepid documentarians, Purdy and Beech, on their hunt for the fearsome Frost Mare. Learn the secret of the stranger whose life little Melly saved in Four Bronze Sisters. Face The Mask of Black Tears alongside Mullein Wick while he fights for his sister's release from servitude. This new mythology is ripe with unique characters, spiced with folkways and mixed throughout with a deep respect for all things natural. Given storytelling this vibrant, it is both easy and thrilling to get lost in Thomas' unique landscape.
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2005
- Kelly Link
One of the happy surprises of the year. It's an odd but heady book reminiscent of the pastoral novels of Thomas Hardy, with perhaps a touch of M.R. James.
Publishers Weekly
- Reed Elsevier
Westermead, a collection of tales by Scott Thomas (Shadows of Flesh), depicts an inviting fantasy world of both loveliness and horror through the four seasons.
Library Journal
- Book Reviews Editor
A little girl who sees things others can't saves the life of a stranger and unleashes a monster in "Four Bronze Sisters," while an unnatural beast haunts the countryside in "The Frost Mare." Through these and other tales, anecdotes, and bits of local lore, Thomas (Cobwebs and Whispers) unfolds the tale of Westermead, a rural country populated with simple folk and steeped in old magic. Thomas brings to life a strangely magical land through its folk legends and its intriguing inhabitants.
Scott Thomas is the author of Cobwebs and Whispersand Shadows of Flesh, both from Delirium books. His fiction has appeared in a number of anthologies which include: The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror #15, The Year’s Best Horror #22, Sick: An Anthology of Illness,Leviathan 3, Of Flesh and Hunger, Deathrealms andThe Ghost in the Gazebo.
Thomas is fond of old houses, cats and the music of Corelli. He lives in Maine.
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