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    Shades of the Evening: A Gothic Novel

    By I.M. Tillerman

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    When their father unexpectedly commits suicide, his two daughters receive a mysterious envelope containing three unusual items. First, a classical poem called “The Tree of Pan: A Sonnet,” which recalls the death of that mythical creature. The second, a narrative entitled “Cain and Abel: A Sketch,” compares the legendary Biblical brothers to two boys whom their father knew on a farm in South Dakota in the 1950’s. And the third, a letter from their father, expresses his odd but passionate last request – to spend a weekend in the long-abandoned, dilapidated farmhouse of his childhood.

    Intrigued, the daughters honor his last request and travel the 600 miles from Chicago to Beresford, South Dakota. Unnerved immediately by the sinister appearance of the decrepit farmhouse, they nevertheless honor their father’s last wishes and set up camp in the crumbling structure. But when bizarre and dangerous things begin to happen, they start to doubt the wisdom of carrying out this last request. And when it becomes impossible for them to leave the farm, the dark and violent secrets of the past finally come to the surface.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSynergEbooks
    Release dateMay 22, 2013
    ISBN9780744320268
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    Shades of the Evening: A Gothic Novel
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    I.M. Tillerman

    I.M. Tillerman was borin in 1944 in South Dakota in his great-grandmother’s house. Most of his childhood was spent living on farms near Sioux Falls. In the early 1970’s, after graduating from Augustana and Purdue, Tillerman was hired as a full-time English Instructor at a college in a suburb of Chicago; for twenty-nine years, he taught Composition and Literature there as a Professor in the English Department. He took early retirement and since then has been a full-time author. In the early ‘60’s, while in the Marines, Tillerman married his high school sweetheart, and had a daughter. After his first wife died tragically, he remarried and had two children. Tillerman states that the most profound literary influences on him as a writer are the very authors he taught about in college for three decades: Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Fitzgerald, and Tennessee Williams. The two strongest literary influences on him are the poet, Emily Dickinson, and Hemingway, who wrote: “A writer should be of his great probity as a priest of God. He is either honest or not..., and after one piece of dishonest writing, he is never the same again” (Amen, Papa).

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