- Trials (Witchcraft), Clerks of court, Fiction, History
In 1699, a traveling magistrate and his clerk, Matthew, come to Fount Royal to try a woman charged with witchcraft.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Robert R. McCammon
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 792
- Publisher
- Pocket, River City Pub., Pocket Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781416552505
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“Matthew could hear the tempestuous sound of the sea.”
Robert Rick McCammon (born July 17, 1952) is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. One of the influential names in the late 1970s–early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon had three New York Times bestsellers (*The Wolf's Hour*, *Stinger*, and *Swan Song*) and around 5 million books in print. **Source**: [Robert R. McCammon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R._McCammon) on Wikipedia.
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