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Design Image Group, Inc., 1999. Trade paperback, $15.95 ISBN 1-891946-04-8 |
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Braxton Defoe once ruled the bestseller lists with his
novels of calculating horror. But now he and his wife, Piper, have fled to
the desolate backwoods of North Carolina with nothing left between them
but a loveless marriage. There they meet Ren Wyatt, The Storyteller,
keeper of the legends, who challenges Braxton Defoe and ignites passions
that have lain dormant in Piper's heart. But an ancient evil lurks in those dark woods, a malevolent spirit from the Storyteller's darkest tale, possessing one weaver of tales, threatening the other and everyone he loves in a sinister and bloody battle for Piper's life ... and a Storyteller's soul. |
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Reviews of Storytellers:
"The author has you by the naughty bits from the start and maintains that grip until the final page. Genuine horror and the beauty of the Carolina wilds. It's an intoxicating blend. You may be a little wary of taking any long solo hikes in the near future, but you'll enjoy the mental scenery along the way."
Lisa Dumond, The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy
"Take a Cherokee storyteller, a writer on the bring of madness, and the woman caught between them. Add magic and stir, and you have the recipe for Julie Anne Park's dark fantasy novel, Storytellers."
Scott Nicolson, The Mountain Times
"Storytellers soars on its own wings ... The novel has impressive momentum: not a word wasted, not an ounce of flab on the prose. It's a page turner, for sure, and a remarkable debut by a woman who is one of the rising stars of her chosen genre..."
William R. Trotter, Triad Style, and author of Winter Fire
"It's an atmospheric novel, the details of the Great Smokies, the unpopulous mountains, the downhome natives, all strike those great, discomfiting Deliverance chords.
Julie Anne Parks exercised a stroke of genius when she titled her novel Storytellers and assigned one of her protagonists to be a traditional storyteller."
Edward Bryant, Locus
"STORYTELLERS is a powerful drama that keeps the reader in a perpetual state of bewilderment between supernatural possession and insanity. The psychological or parapsychological tale works because the characters seem authentic, which turn their activities and interrelationships into quite a plot. Fans of psychological horror need to provide plenty of time to finish Julie Anne Parks's one-sitting novel because they will want to keep reading in order to decide whether Braxton is a lunatic or in need of an exorcist."
Harriet Klausner, Amazon.com