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If you’re looking for a good horror novel for the beach, The Elementals would be an excellent choice. Unfortunately the author died in 1999, so his books are mostly out-of-print. Still, they’re definitely worth seeking out. The Elementals is basically a ghost story (well sort of, since an “elemental” is not a ghost (they’re much more dangerous) , and the cool thing here as far as beach reads go, is that it takes place on the Gulf, where three isolated Victorian era houses stand. One of them is “
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Spooky stories perfect for October are usually set, in my mind, in the pines of Maine or the mountains of Colorado, thanks to Stephen King, or the shores of California, per Dean Koontz. This one caught my eye on a list of well-written books because the author is from my home state of Alabama. And, most stories set on a beach such as Gulf Shores are romances, or easy-going beach reads, whereas this one takes the heat and sand and turns it from a vacationer's paradise into a weapon. The story begi
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