Item #60422 The Echo of The Sea & other Strange War Stories. Paul StJohn Mackintosh.

The Echo of The Sea & other Strange War Stories

Egaeus Press:
Shaftesbury: 2017
First edition, Hardcover, Limited, New sans dust jacket as issued,
189 pp.


This edition limited to 250 copies. “The four novellas that comprise Paul StJohn Mackintosh’s The Echo of the Sea & Other Strange War Stories - three of them connected almost to form a loose novel – are staggeringly researched, their World War II/postwar setting richly detailed. Against this backdrop of verisimilitude, the subtle penetrations of the eerie, uncanny, and supernatural have all the more impact. In the title story, the narrator observes, ‘In war, with so much death about, perhaps the wall between this world and the next is thinner,’ and that may well be the book’s theme, though we are also left reminded of the very human and terrestrial threats that continue to plague us in the modern day. Thoroughly engrossing, written with a sophisticated and welcome restraint, these stories are sure to transport the reader far upon the sea of the imagination.” In the Egaeus “Keynote” series. #60422

Price: $38.00

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