R. L. McCallum
ASIN: B00AZP1ILU
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages: 135
From the elated light of love to the forbidding darkness of death these six, time progressive stories relate to the horrors of romantic involvement. Beginning in 1854, a London writer finds the prospects of love in a woman's voice that emanates from a dark corner of his flat. The second story is set in England, 1876, and relates to the eerily insoluble relationship between a wealthy army officer and a young woman of common status. The American Civil War is the backdrop for the third story which tells of a young soldier with supernatural ties to the girl of his dreams. The fourth story moves forward to Hamilton, Montana in 1910, when a father and his two grown sons purchase a house that is haunted by the ghost of a lovelorn woman who has romantic designs toward one of the men. Manfred's Gallery, the fifth story, regales the reader with the story of a schizophrenic artist who paints the ...