Hildie at the Ghost Shore: A Short Story, by Paula Cappa
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Hildie at the Ghost Shore: A Short Story, by Paula Cappa
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We are in Old Belgium. Hildie the lace maker, Mistress of Runecraft, knows the secret spells of the runes from the wind-god Odin. When a mysterious old sailor visits her attic workroom, he requests a reading. Hildie agrees. During the casting of the runes, Hildie conjures the Ship of the Dead, Loki the trickster, and flame-eyed ravens. Who will survive this adventure in a land beyond the ghost shore? Hildie at the Ghost Shore is a quiet little mystery (Kindle Single) with a dash of Norse mythology evoking the magic of the Runes. This story was originally published at Fiction365.
Hildie at the Ghost Shore: A Short Story, by Paula Cappa- Published on: 2015-05-17
- Released on: 2015-05-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review "Richly atmospheric and hauntingly imaginative. Hildie at the Ghost Shore is a polished gem of a story." Anna Elliott, author of The Witch Queen's Secret.
From the Inside Flap Paula Cappa is the recipient of an Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Readers' Favorite International Bronze Medal for Supernatural Suspense, and a Gothic Readers Book Club Award Winner in Outstanding Fiction. Her newest book is GREYLOCK, a supernatural mystery.
About the Author Paula Cappa is an award-winning novelist and short story author. Her novels include The Dazzling Darkness (Gothic Readers Book Club Award Winner for Outstanding Fiction, and, Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal Award), and Night Sea Journey, A Tale of the Supernatural, an Eric Hoffer Book Award Winner, 2015. Both novels published in trade paperback by Crispin Books.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. On the Shores of the Great North Sea... By Madelon Wilson "Hildie at the Ghost Shore" is a beautifully and cleverly written bit of fantasy and Norse mythology that teases the senses and sensibility to believe one thing while leading to a very different ending than you might expect. I am increasingly delighted to read the works of Paula Cappa because one piece does not predict another. Her ideas are fresh and her voice varied. Her consistency lies in her ability to write elegant and readable prose.I really hate to provide spoilers, so all I will say is that this is a story well worth the short time it will take to read.I was gifted a copy of this story by the author for the purpose of writing a review.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Hauntingly Beautiful Short Story By Laura Hernandez I was gifted a copy of this short story by the author in exchange for an honest review. I made no guarantee of a favorable review.This short story was a deeply, powerful and meaningful story of the human heart and the capacity of the love it holds told via the use of Norse mythology. It was well written and I certainly did not see what was coming. I love a story that makes me cry upon revealing its most intimate secret. This is truly a must read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A haunting tale of supernatural mystery! By Werner A. Lind This short e-story, written by one of my Goodreads friends, is one I picked up when it was offered for free. Originally, I'd proposed to review it a few days ago. But the review proved challenging to write; it's a tale with a great deal of ambiguity and many unanswered questions. Eventually, I read it a second time, with the benefit of some gracious explanation by the author as to the underlying premise.Our setting here is a village on the North Sea coast of Flanders (the titular "ghost shore") in what seems like the 19th century --no date is specified, but the material culture and social conditions have that feel. Title character Hildie is an aged woman who weaves fine lace; but she's also a widely known reader of runes, inscribed on smooth stones for purposes of divination, a practice handed down from the Vikings, as is the folk veneration of Odin. (According to Wikipedia, the latter actually did survive, in the parts of Europe settled by the Germanic/Scandinavian peoples, into the 19th century.) In this story, she's visited early on by a seafaring man who wants her to read the runes for him. This will be, to put it mildly, a very unconventional consultation, which builds up to an extremely surprising ending. The story is difficult to discuss without spoilers.Cappa's prose here is beautiful, appealing wonderfully to the senses; considered strictly in terms of style, she writes with a grace and felicity pretty much unequaled among other contemporary writers since Tanith Lee's untimely death. Here she also draws on a serious background of Viking mythology, with references to Odin's hanging on the world-tree Yggdrasil for 9 days (derived from the Old Norse poem "Havamni," or "Sayings of the High One" --it doesn't specify Yggdrasil as the tree, but scholars agree that's what is meant), his eight-legged steed Sleipnir, the malevolence of Loki, Odin's association with rune-craft. (Some references, like the idea of the Ship of the Dead and Odin's role as psychopomp, are new to me, but that's because I'm not as erudite in the lore as the author clearly is.) Indeed, the world view of the story seems more cast in terms of Viking myth, conceived as real, than in Christian terms, though there's some Christian terminology too.) A quibble that could be made is that the ending --and no spoilers here!-- depends on a deus ex machina (literally); but not all readers may take it that way. It's also been plausibly suggested that the story is better appreciated if it's just experienced on its own terms, letting oneself go with the flow of the narrative and language, rather than made to stand detailed analysis.This is also a really fast read (observing all of the classical unities); I read it easily in a single sitting, and was surprised that it went by so quickly. However, the e-book also contains a short bonus story, "Abasteron House," a prequel to the author's novel Night Sea Journey, and intended to whet reader's appetites for the latter.For readers completely new to Cappa's short fiction, this may not be the optimum place to start. My own suggestion would be to start with either "Beyond Castle Frankenstein" or "Between the Darkness and the Dawn," and work up to this one. But for readers who want to give this tale a try, I can verify that as of last night, it was still free on Amazon!
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