The Northwoods Chronicles
The Northwoods Chronicles: A Novel in Stories.
Note! This novel consists of interlocking short stories.
White Pines Junction is a town with a dark secret. Those who live in the northwoods know that their community has a foot in two worlds — one in reality and one not — and they live contentedly, for the most part, with a few murderous secrets.
To all appearances, White Pines Junction is a normal small town with a lively summer fishing and tourism industry. It has a weekly newspaper, a fancy resort on the lake, a diner, a tackle shop, some nice stores, a wax museum, and a decrepit, abandoned amusement park.
One evening, a young boy goes missing — disappears right out of the arms of his babysitter — and his parents deal with their grief right along with the other residents, who are all mired in their own curious doings. The mother's quest for emotional solutions to these regular disappearances and the local computer geek's determination to discover the physical answers to them come together in the only conclusion that could occur in such an uncanny place.
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Elizabeth Engstrom
Elizabeth Engstrom is best known as a speculative fiction writer. She was born Bette Lynn (Betsy) Gutzmer, but she legally changed her name to Elizabeth Engstom a few years after publishing her first novel under that pseudonym. She is married to Al Cratty, and sometimes writes under the name Liz Cratty as well. She was nominated for a 1992 Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection fo her book Nightmare Flower. Her anthology Dead on Demand: The Best of Ghost Story Weekend spent six months on the Library Journal "Best Seller List." Her short story, "Crosley", was picked to be included in The Thirteenth Annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow. Her work has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Horror Show, American Fantasy Magazine, and Cemetery Dance.
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