Overview
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The author of The Man Who Noticed Everything, an award-winning collection of short stories, presents his debut work of full-length fiction, āa witty and disturbing horror novelĀ .Ā .Ā . as if Henry James had written an issue of Tales from the Cryptā (Bennett Sims, author of A Questionable Shape).
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Loosely based on the lives of spirit photographer William H. Mumler and his wife, Shadows in Summerland transports readers to 1859 Boston, where those who promise access to the otherworldlyāmediums, spiritualists, and psychicsāare celebrated. This embrace of illusion and intrigue provides the perfect hunting ground for con artists and charlatansāmen like William Mumler.
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When William teams up with Hannah, a shy young girl who sees and manifests the dead, they are welcomed into the drawing rooms of the cityās elite. But the coupleās newfound fame and fortune draw grifters and rogues into their circle, including someone who will bring the afterlife closer to them than they could ever imagine.
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Spanning three decades, Shadows in Summerland ārecalls an era no less gullible than the present oneĀ .Ā .Ā . Van Youngās prose skillfully illuminates his gothic tale of greed, obsession, and murderā (Publishers Weekly).
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āA fabulous and weird addition to the contemporary fantastic.ā āLaird Barron, author of Black Mountain
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