Incubus (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ann Arensberg
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The summer of 1974, recalled in December of 1977
- Setting: Dry Falls, Maine
- Principal Characters: Cora Whitman, Henry W. Lieber, Adele Manning, Mary Fran Rawls, Emily Whitman, Hannah Whitman, Myra Littlefield
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, Supernatural, Marriage, New England, Disasters, Natural disasters, Droughts
- Locales: Dry Falls, MN
Cora Whitman introduces her account of what she calls “the Dry Falls entity,” which was set down three and one-half years after the actual events, with an account of her present circumstances. She and her husband, Henry Lieber, are now forty-two and fifty-six years old, respectively. Having left behind their former occupations, they establish, along with Henry’s former secretary, Adele Manning, a private foundation called the Center for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena. The purpose of this organization is to collect case studies of “outlandish” events in the hope of...
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