The remaking : a novel /
Chapman, Clay McLeod,
The remaking : a novel / Clay McLeod Chapman. - 295 pages ; 24 cm
"Some stories refuse to die..."--Front cover.
"Ella Louise has lived in the woods surrounding Pilot's Creek, Virginia, for nearly a decade. Publicly, she and her daughter, Jessica, are shunned by her upper-crust family and the local residents. Privately, desperate characters visit her apothecary for a cure to what ails them--until Ella Louise is blamed for the death of a prominent customer. Accused of witchcraft, Ella Louise and Jessica are burned at the stake in the middle of the night. Ella Louise's burial site is never found, but the little girl has the most famous grave in the South: a steel-reinforced coffin surrounded by a fence of interconnected white crosses. Their story will take the shape of an urban legend as it's told around a campfire by a man forever marked by his childhood encounters with Jessica. Decades later, a boy at that campfire will cast Amber Pendleton as Jessica in a '70s horror movie inspired by the Witch Girl of Pilot's Creek. Amber's experiences on that set and its meta-remake in the '90s will ripple through pop culture, ruining her life and career after she becomes the target of a witch hunt. Amber's best chance to break the cycle of horror comes when a true-crime investigator tracks her down to interview her for his popular podcast. But will this final act of storytelling redeem her--or will it bring the story full circle, ready to be told once again? And again. And again . . ."--Provided by publisher.
9781683691532 9781683691570 1683691539 1683691571
2019936668
Witches--Fiction.
Women--Crimes against--Fiction.
Motion pictures--Production and direction--Fiction.
Actresses--Fiction.
Podcasts--Fiction.
Urban folklore--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Horror fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
Ghost stories.
The remaking : a novel / Clay McLeod Chapman. - 295 pages ; 24 cm
"Some stories refuse to die..."--Front cover.
"Ella Louise has lived in the woods surrounding Pilot's Creek, Virginia, for nearly a decade. Publicly, she and her daughter, Jessica, are shunned by her upper-crust family and the local residents. Privately, desperate characters visit her apothecary for a cure to what ails them--until Ella Louise is blamed for the death of a prominent customer. Accused of witchcraft, Ella Louise and Jessica are burned at the stake in the middle of the night. Ella Louise's burial site is never found, but the little girl has the most famous grave in the South: a steel-reinforced coffin surrounded by a fence of interconnected white crosses. Their story will take the shape of an urban legend as it's told around a campfire by a man forever marked by his childhood encounters with Jessica. Decades later, a boy at that campfire will cast Amber Pendleton as Jessica in a '70s horror movie inspired by the Witch Girl of Pilot's Creek. Amber's experiences on that set and its meta-remake in the '90s will ripple through pop culture, ruining her life and career after she becomes the target of a witch hunt. Amber's best chance to break the cycle of horror comes when a true-crime investigator tracks her down to interview her for his popular podcast. But will this final act of storytelling redeem her--or will it bring the story full circle, ready to be told once again? And again. And again . . ."--Provided by publisher.
9781683691532 9781683691570 1683691539 1683691571
2019936668
Witches--Fiction.
Women--Crimes against--Fiction.
Motion pictures--Production and direction--Fiction.
Actresses--Fiction.
Podcasts--Fiction.
Urban folklore--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Horror fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
Ghost stories.