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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
Fabric Type: 9780345438164
Legal Disclaimer: 0345438167
Maximum Color Depth: Ballantine Books
Metal Type: Ballantine Books
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 336
Total External Bays Free: May 02, 2000
Total Firewire Ports: Ballantine Books
Total Parallel Ports: May 02, 2000
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
You can trust Cora Whitman. She's a minister's wife, gardener, food writer, and just the kind of narrator that you don't find in most horror novels. She is practical, skeptical, and her matter-of-fact telling of the events that took place in Dry Falls, Maine, makes this incredible story easy to believe.
Incubus begins with Cora Whitman's preface to the "case study" that is the novel. It's an almost scientific warm-up for the paranormal roller coaster that lies ahead. Arensberg's Dry Falls is a typical, small New England community, except during the summer of 1974 when the weather got unusually hot, the rain refused to fall, and the town was gripped by a sinister sexual spirit. The first signs of the incubus were relatively innocent--the town eccentric lost a few hours of her day, husbands became uncharacteristically ardent, schoolgirls saw a "ghost" in a graveyard. As the story progresses, the incubus grows more sinister, until it stirs up a supernatural hurricane with Cora Whitman trapped in its eye.
Arensberg, whose other works include Group Sex and Sister Wolf, has created a sophisticated work of literary horror with Incubus. She raises many questions about religion, marriage, and the supernatural, and handles the subject matter with unflinching objectivity. Her prose is simultaneously elegant and pointed, and her characters both unusual and familiar, making the story irresistible. --Mara Friedman
Product Description:
Dry Falls, Maine was a simple farming town. Its residents lived innocently in sync with the seasons--honest churchgoing folk who looked to the land for a living and to tiny St. Anthony's church for spiritual sustenance. Until the spring of 1974, when a premature, blistering heat wave envelops the vicinity . . . along with something far more sinister. As crops wither, livestock birth only deformed offspring, and husbands lose all desire for sex, an ancient, unholy evil hungry for lust, an Incubus, secretly begins to prey on the town's women. As one female after another falls victim to erotic nightmares and dark violations, Cora Leiber, the wife of St. Anthony's rector, must look for answers in the depths of faith-- and her own tormented soul.
Average Rating: 
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I am currently reading this book and find it fascinating. I think that the author's story telling is accurate for the surroundings in which the novel takes place: a small town. The local gossip, the endless descriptions and the drawn out passages make the reading more enjoyable. I also find that it is not a traditional book of horror. It is a horror novel in a different way but is well written and worth the read.
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Ann Arensberg has written a very good supernatural thriller in "Incubus", a book which relies moore on atmosphere and character development/interaction then in pacing and plot driven scares.
"Incubus" is written in the Shirley Jackson tradition of cool, straight ahead and level headed narration. Cora Whitman Lieber is the narrator, the wife of an Episcopalian minister whose serene life is muddled somewhat due to her dysfunctional family situation and her husband's lack of interest in ... Read More
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Whether this book is supposed to be a "horror" novel or not makes no difference. It's about as exciting and/or interesting as going to the laundromat. The narrator is self-centered and not entirely objective and there's not really a character in the whole book that I liked. Arenberg spends her time dealing with the sexual frustrations of a bunch of Peyton Place wannabes and her incubus terror is more humorous than frightening. A real overblown farce.
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I took a flyer on this novel because the it has an interesting (to me) title and the author is Ivy league educated. I figured "even if the plot is stupid, at least the prose will be well crafted."
My take after reading: this is a REALLY good book. The writing is excellent and descriptive. The author's understanding of personality defects brings the characters alive and the story is original.
For me, finding this novel was like discovering a rare coin in the jar I throw my change into ... Read More
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Other reviewers on this site have called this book "intellectual horror," or something similar. It may be that, categorically, but I didn't find it frightening at all.
It's more like reading one of Cora's food columns in the newspaper than a horror story, since she focuses often on food, furniture, local flora, and such.
I've never been to Maine, so it was a little difficult to identify with some of the climactic descriptions, such as an unexpected hot spell.
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