I would stand in line to read anything written by E. Denise Billups. She has the rare ability to blend beautiful writing, compelling, complex characters, and an engaging storyline. In the short story Ravine Lereux, Billups brings these elements together to elicit every emotion with some of the most powerful being fear and anticipation. Ravine Lereax is a story about a family and a curse seen through the eyes of two women, one young, beautiful and about to come to an awakening and one old, fading but about to find acceptance in transformation.
The author’s pacing is on point as usual and an alternating third-person limited POV gives you a unique perspective of what’s in store for young Ravine and her aunt Olivia. Make no mistake this one is a psychological horror story on the line of a Stephen King or Alfred Hitchcock, coupled with the flair and elegance only Billups can deliver. It ended way too fast and the prose was so lyrical, I couldn’t resist reading it twice. I would be remiss in not including a passage here. Billups’ work is truly literary and at the same time cinematic in its rendering. Behold…
“Swirling gauzy tendrils swallow the jeep, smothering views ghostly before freeing the car to finer mist. The incline flattens and then dips, revealing a dark mass drifting beyond a full moon over Frenchman Bay. The white cottage arises a surreal three-dimensional painting. Amber and tilleul heads tremble with the breeze, shaking foliage across the shadowy home. Windows shuttered laurel green, appear open-eyed, guarding the yard. The sun-bleached falcate timbered porch grins eerie in headlights.”
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Ravine Lereux: A Supernatural Short Story
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Ravine gets a note from her Uncle Edward causing her to return to her cursed family home, a home that everyone disappears from.This was an interesting but choppy short story leaving me wanting more information, more details. It felt like a short prequel to a very good novel.I read this short story because it takes place in Maine near Acadia National Park. I will read almost anything set in Maine.
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Ravine gets a note from her Uncle Edward causing her to return to her cursed family home, a home that everyone disappears from.
This was an interesting but choppy short story leaving me wanting more information, more details. It felt like a short prequel to a very good novel.
I read this short story because it takes place in Maine near Acadia National Park. I will read almost anything set in Maine.
This was an interesting but choppy short story leaving me wanting more information, more details. It felt like a short prequel to a very good novel.
I read this short story because it takes place in Maine near Acadia National Park. I will read almost anything set in Maine.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2019
