Much of the middle of the book is devoted to the details of the narrator’s life – well evoked, but just straightforward background. But there’s an awful lot of the storytelling. The prose is beautifully balanced and crafted. Not that Barker is wrong when he says that this is a novel for lovers of fine storytelling, in a very traditional sense. In short, Wild Fell is supernatural fiction of the highest order.” The novel was a finalist for the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award, and Clive Barker, no less, has declared that: “this is a novel for lovers of fine storytelling a book that evokes terrors both ancient and modern and delivers us to a place of profound fear where the past and present intersect, conjuring a dark world where the dead have our faces. The book’s protagonist, Jameson Browning, purchases the house partly as a refuge from his own ghosts, only to find, sure enough, that other and worse ones await him there. A fine novel that is destined to become a classic.Latest in a long line of superb dark/weird horrific titles from ChiZine Publications, Wild Fell by Michael Rowe tells the tale of the house of the title on Ontario’s Blackmore Island, site of a tragic drowning that has haunted the local town of Alvina, and of other more mysterious events deeper in the past. Wild Fell is supernatural fiction of the highest order.' -Clive Barker, author of The Scarlet Gospels 'Deeply textured, richly imagined, and with characters that leap from the book, Wild Fell is an atmospheric ghost story that grips from the first page. 'A novel for lovers of fine storytelling a book that evokes terrors both ancient and modern. How could he say no? Except something is waiting inside the house for Jameson, ready to show him his senses can't always be trusted and the past isn't always gone forever. It's a good location, and the price is a steal. Jameson Browning is ready for a break from all the drama in his life when he discovers an ad in the newspaper for a turn-of-the-century estate on a private island in Georgian Bay. The townspeople do their best to avoid the place, and no one has lived there for over fifty years-until now. A sinister past lies within its walls, and rumors of teenagers disappearing nearby have become the stuff of local legend. Rising from the fog over the waters of Devil's Lake, Blackmore Island is home to the infamous summerhouse called Wild Fell.

An unforgettable contemporary ghost story in the tradition of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw from the award-winning author of October.

Wild fell michael rowe