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The Study at the Redwood Athenaeum

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It was a crisp winter’s day in Rhode Island. A perfect New England day, with red maples dressed in gold, plum, and scarlet, their leaves rustling outside the windows like fresh-faced young girls dressed up for a church meeting. Warm light flooded into the cold and dusty reading rooms of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum where Jessie was pouring over an old first-edition volume by P.S. Blackwood.The book, titled “The Trial of Ares,” spoke of nightmarish creatures with seeming immortality, hidden from man in shadowy and re...

Outstanding reviews

I really enjoyed this, great read. Descriptive, illustrative lines that painted a vivid picture, fast paced and increasingly intriguing with each new paragraph. The concepts and plot, along with the journal entries, reminded me of short stories by Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and a few other of the weird fiction greats.
Thanks, Edd!

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