Malfi, Ronald - The Mourning House
Following personal tragedy, Sam Hatch, physician, pushes himself adrift.
Literally. He becomes, in the truest sense, a drifter. Traveling without purpose, without destination.
Until he spies an abandoned, rotting homestead off Tar Road.
Hatch buys the house, unaware or unconcerned about its history or characteristics.
Repairs underway, he discovers the home does have ghosts – the ones he carried with him.
A grief haunted novella, one of a series of miseries that Delirium seemed to favor during its heyday.
While I am not necessarily a huge fan of this writer, Malfi’s focus is keen, his hand steady throughout.