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The Legend of the Albino Farm
The Legend of the Albino Farm
The Legend of the Albino Farm
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The Legend of the Albino Farm

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The Legend of the Albino Farm is a horror story turned inside out. What if a thriving family were saddled with an unshakable spook tale? And what if that lore cursed them with an unending whirlwind of destruction from thrill seekers, partiers, bikers, and Goths? Hettienne Sheehy is about to inherit this devouring legacy. Last child to bear a once golden name, she is heiress to a sprawling farm in the Missouri Ozarks. During summer, childhood idylls in the late 1940s, Hettienne has foreseen all this apocalyptic fury in frightening, mystifying visions. Haunted by a whirling augury, by a hurtful spook tale, and by a property that seems to doom all who would dare own it, in the end, Hettienne will risk everything to save the family she truly loves.

The Legend of the Albino Farm has haunted two generations of Sheehys and marred all memory of the family’s glory days. Worse, this spooky lore now draws revelers, druggies, motorcycle gangs, hippies, and later Goths to trample the land, set bonfires, and vandalize its structures, all while Hettienne’s aged aunts cling to privacy, sanity, and a rapidly deteriorating thirteen-room mansion..

From her youth, throughout her marriage and her rearing of her children, the Legend of the Albino Farm and the curse of the Sheehys drag at her and her family like a vortex. Haunted by a whirling augury, by a hurtful spook tale, and by a relentlessly judgmental Ozarks city, in the end, Hettienne believes she must make decisions that might compromise her family’s financial security but will severe them from an ever more dangerous legacy.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 17, 2017
ISBN9781609531393
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Steve Yates

Steve Yates is the award-winning author of The Legend of the Albino Farm: A Novel (Unbridled Books), Some Kinds of Love: Stories (University of Massachusetts Press / Juniper Prize Winner), and Morkan’s Quarry: A Novel (Moon City Press). His novella, Sandy and Wayne, was chosen by New York Times-bestselling author Lauren Groff as the inaugural winner of the Knickerbocker Prize, published in a letter press edition by Big Fiction and later published as a book by Dock Street Press. He is associate director / marketing director of University Press of Mississippi, and lives in Flowood with his wife, Tammy.

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    Once the Sheehy family homestead was a beautiful place, a place where cousins came to spend the summer. Golden times in youth , when though you can sense the strain in the adult relationships, you don't really understand them. Hettienne will be the last of the Sheehy, will someday inherit it all. That is if the visions she experiences don't land her in a mental facility. One of her visions and an act by her favorite uncle will give rise to the rumors of a group of Albinos living at the place, and the beginning of the story of hauntings.This does not really pigeonhole into any one genre, it contains crossovers from many. The Ozark mountains and stories, families in all their messiness, and a tale told by many that brings untold consequences and divisions within the family. The author does not hold your hand while telling this tale, sometimes it is hard to piece together exactly what is going on, what it means. Despite that I found this story intriguing, mysterious, and identified with stories about summers spent with cousins and family, remembering good times that will never come again. In fact I guess the best way I can describe this novel is to say it is like those stories, a little weird, a little strange, cautionary tale told around the campfire.

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