Winesburg, Again

In 1919 the author Sherwood Anderson wrote the seminal work on the collapse of the moral fabric of rural America, Winesburg, Ohio. Where Anderson left off, the dramatic tale of mystery and horror Winesburg, Again begins. The novel centers on the pivotal character of Jonathan Welling, a young romantic writer who finds work in a local newspaper office in the mid 1970s. There, hidden away from prying eyes, he discovers a collection of tales that the newspaper's dynastic family of publishers has chosen not to publish because of their lurid and horrific nature. Together they make up a quartet of bleak psychological horror, a symphony of terror, entrapment and despair. Here there is no escape for Jonathan or the men and women whose lives are inextricably linked to the darkness of humanity. Jonathan takes the scribblings and facts of past editors and writers, and brings them to life in the mind's eye. He has the terrible gift, not of prophecy, but of the psychic eyewitness.