6/22/2023 0 Comments Maynard's House by Herman RaucherAnd a wooden plaque testifies to the misery of past occupants. The rocking chair creaks as it rocks uninhabited. He had been there before."" By day the house is as inviting as a Christmas card by night it's Edgar Allan Poe. And after barely making it through impressive snow (the natives make book on his survival, a bear-like station master rescues him), Austin knows two ""warming and irrefutable truths. Austin Fletcher, a young Viet vet and a loner, is on his way to claim the wilderness house in northern Maine left to him by his dead army buddy, Maynard Whittier. It's not only the Maine winter that'll raise goosebumps in this tale about a house that hangs onto a body even after he's dead and it's all told with such an icy precision of eye and ear and a wink of wicked humor that you'll put up with the multitudinous whip-arounds of real and surreal.
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