The Elementals
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Each summer the McCray and Savage families, two intertwined wealthy Alabama clans, go to their beachfront compound on Beldame, a private spit of sand. There are three Victorian houses, and the third is filling up with sand and worse.
Multiple novels share this title. The most commonly searched recently is The Elementals by Michael McDowell (1981), a Southern gothic horror novel set on the Alabama coast. The metadata above lists Strunk in error.
Yes. The Elementals is widely cited as one of the great American gothic horror novels, alongside Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Stephen King has praised Michael McDowell's work publicly.
The Elementals is 76 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Elementals takes most readers 1 to 2 hours to finish.
The Elementals is a standalone novel by William Strunk, Jr., not part of a series.
The Elementals is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
