It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization.Д«ut for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival-a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known. Cities were turned into oceans oceans turned into steam. вЂњThe gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. вЂњ*LuciferвЂ™s Hammer*вЂќ (1977) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Though best known for his screenplays for Tim Burton's вЂњ*Beetlejuice*вЂќ and вЂњ*The Nightmare Before Christmas*вЂќ, McDowell is now being rediscovered as one of the best modern horror writers and a master of Southern Gothic literature. вЂњДЄ haunted house story unlike any other, Michael McDowell's вЂњ*The Elementals*вЂќ was one of the finest novels to come out of the horror publishing explosion of the 1970s and '80s. Something horrific that may be responsible for several terrible and unexplained deaths years earlier-and is now ready to kill again. Something that has terrified Dauphin Savage and Luker McCray since they were boys and which still haunts their nightmares. But though long uninhabited, the third house is not empty. Two of the houses are habitable, while the third is slowly and mysteriously being buried beneath an enormous dune of blindingly white sand.

вЂњAfter a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where three Victorian houses loom over the shimmering beach. вЂњ*The Elementals*вЂќ (1981) by Michael McDowell

So hereвЂ™s some of my favorite recommendations for yours. > I first discovered Stephen King and Clifford Simak while on deployment in the Seabees, in the early 1970вЂ™s.

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