Sineaters, a tradition that made it to the states from Scotland and Wales, are outsiders, shunned by the community but necessary to its functioning. One lesson I took away from it was to fill up the car with gas before driving through Virginia and don't make any stops.
If there is such a thing as the Hillbilly Anti-Defamation League, I am sure this book is on its radar.
It's really a pretty good coming-of-age story set in a grotesque situation. I guess it's a horror novel, although I wondered if Massie's publisher didn't promote it as a genre book so it would not get lost in mid-list literary fiction. And I also had the not-uncommon prejudice against the genre, or at least against anything written much later than the turn of the 20th century.īut I liked Sineater.
I have always been a pro-horror film voice, but was never attracted to reading horror novels. I picked this up because it was on the Horror Writers' Association list of horror must-reads.
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