
A haunting collection of stories by Ervin D. Krause, exploring cruelty, nature's indifference, and tragic human desires.
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A haunting collection of stories by Ervin D. Krause, exploring cruelty, nature's indifference, and tragic human desires.
A farmer perishing under a fallen tractor makes a last stab at philosophizing: “There was nothing dead that was ever beautiful.” It is a sentiment belied not only by the strange beauty in his story but also in the rough lives and deaths, small and large, that fill these haunting tales. Pulp-fiction grim and gritty but with the rhythm and resonance of classic folklore, these stories take place in a world of shadowy figures and childhood fears, in a countryside peopled by witches and skinflints, b...
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Characters have affairs in old cars on winter nights
Deaths and matter-of-fact cruelty including a farmer crushed by tractor
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Characters get sloshed while pontificating in saloons
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Witches and shadowy folklore figures populate the countryside
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Merciless characters terrorize neighbors amid themes of cruelty and suffering
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