On Alabama’s Gulf Coast, three Victorian houses sit in the isolated community of Beldame. Two are homes for the Savage and McCray families, places of refuge for the summer. The third house, half-buried beneath a shifting dune of blinding white sand, is different. It has never been lived in, but it has never been empty.
For Dauphin Savage and Luker McCray, childhood memories of the house still bring terror. For the rest of the family, it is a curiosity, until unsettling events turn their summer into a nightmare. Whatever waits inside the third house has killed before, and now it is ready to kill again.
Michael McDowell’s The Elementals is a Southern Gothic masterpiece of horror, hailed by Stephen King as one of the finest paperback originals ever written.
