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Trade paper ISBN-13: 978-1960241511 List Price: $17.99 U.S. Pages: 212 Published: 2025 |
The Weather in Middenshot (1952)
Edgar Mittelholzer This is a preorder. If you purchase multiple books in the same transaction, the books will not ship until the preorder is released. Website preorders are expected to ship by May 2025.
Book Description
Deranged old Mr. Jarrow stubbornly insists his (very much alive) wife is dead and will only communicate with her through seances. Obsessed with all things gruesome and horrible, he delights in reading accounts of murders in the newspaper and leaving rotting animal corpses on his neighbor’s doorstep. Much to his joy, a murderous lunatic has arrived in Middenshot, slitting villagers’ throats by night in the foggy lanes. But his daughter Grace is worried. Why is her father going out late at night, and just what is he hiding in the coal shed? When two rather unconventional detectives come to town on the case, strange truths will be revealed and things will never again be the same in Middenshot. A strange mix of Gothic horror and morbid black humor, infused with the author’s controversial ideas on treatment of criminals and the mentally insane, The Weather in Middenshot (1952) is one of the most unusual novels by Edgar Mittelholzer (1900-1965), one of the first great Caribbean novelists and author of the classic horror stories My Bones and My Flute (1955) and Eltonsbrody (1960). 
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"A most bizarre and entertaining book." - Western Morning News
"[D]ifferent ... original ... the style is refreshing ... I can promise you that you will be fascinated, horrified and amazed." - Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Five innocent victims are murdered. Fog shrouds the middle section of the novel. Unseen wings flap inaudibly through the room. And people who go in for gore and gloom will find it in The Weather in Middenshot." - Chattanooga Daily Times
"[D]ifferent ... original ... the style is refreshing ... I can promise you that you will be fascinated, horrified and amazed." - Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Five innocent victims are murdered. Fog shrouds the middle section of the novel. Unseen wings flap inaudibly through the room. And people who go in for gore and gloom will find it in The Weather in Middenshot." - Chattanooga Daily Times
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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Edgar Mittelholzer (1909-1965) is often considered to be the first novelist from the West Indies to earn an international reputation for his fiction, as well as the first professional novelist to emerge from the English-speaking Caribbean. Beginning with his first book, Creole Chips, which he self-published in 1937, Mittelholzer would go on to publish more than twenty volumes of fiction, as well as two volumes of nonfiction, including the autobiography A Swarthy Boy (1963). His best-known works include A Morning at the Office (1950), which one critic cited as having begun ‘the great decade of the West Indian novel’, the Kaywana trilogy (1952-58), and the ghost story My Bones and My Flute (1955).