Gideon's Curse: A Novel of Old Mill, NC
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (787 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071JMQLZG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 207 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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gripping, fast-paced a story well told Winston J. Phillips Although it distressed me, this story, because it is so well written, held me in its ‘octopus-like tentacles’ for one sitting. I was saddened, more so because I realized that similar events reportedly occurred all over the South, and that the culture and emotions firing the story still exist today.The story is set in post emancipation NC, on a cotton growing Plantation run by Enoch Pope and his sons. The composition is pretty predic. Brian A. said Horror Story Through and Through. Gideon's Curse by David Niall Wilson is a well written novel that combines the ugliness of humanity with bursts of human tenderness. It is a suspenseful horror novel that showcases the hard cruel reality of prejudice and the actions of bigoted individuals, but blends in revenge and the supernatural.Divided into three parts, the story revolves around the Pope plantation in North Carolina. Gideon Swayne, the operational plantation manager, wishes. bertiejf said I will never think of swamp lights in the same way again!. What a wonderful story! I have heard, all of my life, about the swamp lightsI hope someday to see them. Of course, after this it will be a whole new experience.Mr. Wilson has managed to craft a fine tale blending fantasy and reality with finesse. All of the characters are believable, possibly a little 'caricaturish' in places, yet still appearing as people that we all have come across in our lives. Especially on social media, where we see more
He has heard voices like drumbeats chanting in the night. He's heard his grandfather, the first Gideon at Preacher's Marsh, chanting on the night breeze. Just after the Civil War, a preacher named Gideon Swayne journeyed south from Random, Illinois to minister to the newly freed slaves. Soon. He has seen eyes, glowing green and glittering with hatred, lining the trees along the fields and peering from the trees. Gideon's Curse is a novel of history. It's a glance into the violent past of the Deep South and the hope of a better future.. The dead are rising, and they are coming. It's a novel of freedom, slavery, magic, and romance. In the bitter prejudice of North Carolina, and the magic of the Great Dismal Swamp, he made a homethat home was taken from him in hatred, and in violence. The Pope plantation is mired in the "old ways", migrants work their land so