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The Winslow Incident

by Elizabeth Voss
Raquel Beattie
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Everything seems normal in Winslow, Washington, as the tourists arrive for summer fun—the carnival in Prospect Park, the ghost-town tour—and the locals retreat to Ruby Creek to cool off. The only thing that's unusual is the death of Pard Holloway's cattle after a brief, strange illness.

But now the disease seems to be spreading to humans. One by one, individuals deteriorate into lunacy. Seventeen-year-old Hazel Winslow, however, is perfectly healthy. That leaves her to confront the crisis on her own while her father, the sheriff, heads into the woods to hunt a fearsome creature; her boyfriend grows delusional; and ghosts invade her grandmother's broken-down mansion. How can she reason with them when their minds aren't functioning? And what would be worse—succumbing to the sickness, or being the last sane person left?

Inspired by true events and informed by historical accounts, this modern Gothic tale evokes the mass hysteria of the Salem witch trials and the terror of the events in Pont-Saint-Esprit, France, in 1951.
Contains mature themes.

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    October 22, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9798855536812
      • File size: 484557 KB
      • Duration: 16:49:29

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 31, 2011
      Voss’s debut blends horror and suspense to little effect. In the summer of 2010, the small town of Winslow, Wash., suffers a series of inexplicable events, beginning with the sudden death of cattle in Pard Holloway’s herd, perhaps from mad cow disease. When 17-year-old Hazel Winslow threatens to raise concerns about possible tainted beef, Pard, who’s her uncle, threatens to reveal the truth behind the death of town baker Hawkin Rhone five years earlier—a truth that could jeopardize the freedom of Hazel’s boyfriend, Sean Adair. As whatever afflicted the livestock appears to spread to the local human population, evidence mounts that something other than mad cow disease might be at work. The odd behavior of Hazel’s neighbors offers only mild chills, a fatal defect in a book that depends on consistently generating fear.

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