Skip to content
Cover of “The Elementals” by Michael McDowell

The Elementals

Michael McDowell · 1981

230 pages

Two related families spend a summer at Beldame, a lonely stretch of Alabama coast where three Victorian houses face the Gulf. The third house is slowly drowning in sand, and something inside it has been waiting for the children since they were small.

Tropes

Haunted House, Southern Gothic, Gothic Manor, Creeping Dread, Gothic

Are you the author of this book?