Childgrave & Elizabeth by Kenneth Greenhall - Limited to 300 Signed & Numbered

Description: Childgrave & Elizabeth by Kenneth Greenhall - Limited to 300 Signed & Numbered Both copies are #39 of 300. Condition and Terms Brand-new sealed condition. Limited to 300 signed copies. New introduction by Grady Hendrix. Signed by Bo Myles and Grady Hendrix. Dustjacket, frontispiece, and spot illustrations by Bo Myles. Patterened endpapers. Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, bound in Brillianta black cloth. Stamped spine and front board. Smyth-sewn binding. Be sure to check out our other listings at Settembrini's Selections. You can save on shipping by buying multiple books and asking that we combine the shipping. Returns are only allowed due to shipping damage or item not being as described. Due to USPS insurance claims procedures, partial refunds are not allowed due to shipping damage. Items damaged in shipping must be returned in the original packaging as received. The USPS requires inspection of the packaging and item damaged. Synopsis ELIZABETH Elizabeth Cuttner is no ordinary fourteen-year-old. She speaks with a candor that belies her age and possesses the perceptive nature of a fortuneteller. Perhaps it’s the result of having to grow up too fast. Her whiskey-soaked stockbroker father can’t pry his eyes off Elizabeth’s friend and her mother is too caught up insulting her father to care about Elizabeth. But for all Elizabeth’s intuition, even she can’t control the influence imposed on her by Frances, the mysterious woman in the mirror. While on a trip with her parents to Lake George, New York, Elizabeth meets this spectral presence for the first time. It’s with a captured toad in hand and a darting look to her bedroom mirror that invokes the eerie apparition. As if she’s her guardian angel, Frances swears allegiance to Elizabeth, protecting her and having her best interest at heart. However, each look to the mirror comes with a high cost. Whether by Elizabeth’s hand or another, she’s left an orphan and forced to move into her grandmother’s house where her uncle, James, also resides. He’s married, has a son, and shares the same salacious side of her father. And Elizabeth, despite her age and relation, is the target of his infatuation. At the same time, Frances’s hold on Elizabeth gains strength, pulling her further from reality with each visit. But it may just be the kind of escape from this debauched life that Elizabeth requires. Or it could be a destiny pre-ordained by her heritage, bringing her closer to the truth interred among her ancestors. At first glance, Elizabeth appears to hold all the trappings of 70s pulp horror with its sleezy characters and shaggy veneer. But it’s a novel of scrupulous nuance that resists horror’s clichés, cloaking itself in the darkest velour that horror has to offer. With lust, obsession, manipulation, and a young girl as its focus, this novel is sure to make you feel uneasy, if even a bit queasy. And by the time you’re done, you may just think twice before you look into another mirror again. CHILDGRAVE They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But for photographer Jonathan Brewster, their worth can’t be measured in words, only in how much closer they bring him to love. Because it is his very trade that has brought him into the good graces of Sara Coleridge, the opera harpist who stole his heart… and may even steal his only daughter. As a widower and father of a precocious and spunky four-year-old, Jonathan can find it hard to make it through a city day without the comfort of another like-minded soul and the tender touch of a warm-blooded body. When he finally meets Sara, he falls so head over heels in love that nothing can stand in his way. Not his friends, not conventional wisdom, not the strange spirits inhabiting Sara’s photos, and not even his daughter whose adoration for the woman can sometimes rival his own. That is, until he realizes the secret behind Sara’s aura. Then he must make the toughest decision of his life: sacrifice love or make the ultimate sacrifice. For all its ominous window dressing, Childgrave can be summed up as psychological case study that will make you question what you know or think you know about love, both romantic and platonic. People think and act with logic and reason as their North Star. But when Cupid strikes a bullseye on an unsuspecting victim, all that rationale can be thrown out the door. The only logic that remains is the idea to chase that high for as long as one can stay alive. However, Childgrave is also a novel that plunges headfirst into the ramifications that one lowly love connection can create, impacting friends, family, and even one’s own religion. This is where Greenhall goes beyond standard religious inquiry. He calls it out for its duplicity, for it can be as guilty as any other entity or institution. It can even pose as a refuge or a community for many — innocent or not — to hide behind, so long as they serve that higher power. By the end, you may be left asking yourself: does love conquer all? Well, that just depends on your definition of love…and conquer.

Price: 379.99 USD

Location: Missouri City, Texas

End Time: 2024-08-13T20:56:06.000Z

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