Strange Isles, Sonorous River

Strange Isles, Sonorous River, is a novel inspired by a real occurrence in the south of France in the 1950’s, when an entire village experienced an inexplicable outbreak of physical and psychological disorders: normal men, women and children, gradually become psychotic as they experience horrific hallucinations, seemingly endless insomnia, and death.

An American writer, Damon Cristann, who, after wandering aimlessly about Europe for years, returns to Provence,’ in the south of France, in an ...