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"The theme is demonology ... the left-handed path of black magic. It is about a sports relay team in 1970s America who accidentally kill a wretch who, in esoteric language, might be known as a Fetch ... a discarnate entity in physical form. He appears, though, as an omen of the immediate deaths of each member of the relay team. He is a life force of a devil incarnate, yet in his astral shell he is one phase removed from life. The wretch begins a banishing ritual of the four main characters, and therefore his own death at the beginning of the book is illusory." | "The theme is demonology ... the left-handed path of black magic. It is about a sports relay team in 1970s America who accidentally kill a wretch who, in esoteric language, might be known as a Fetch ... a discarnate entity in physical form. He appears, though, as an omen of the immediate deaths of each member of the relay team. He is a life force of a devil incarnate, yet in his astral shell he is one phase removed from life. The wretch begins a banishing ritual of the four main characters, and therefore his own death at the beginning of the book is illusory." | ||
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Literary Review awarded List of the Lost: "The Bad Sex in Fiction Award" at their 23rd annual event. | |||
An alternate image of four Coaldale High School athletes (Coaldale, Pennsylvania) who "won the state championship gold medal in the Class B Half Mile Relay race" (1948) was used as a concert backdrop in 2016 during "[[Mention::Because Of My Poor Education]]" | An alternate image of four Coaldale High School athletes (Coaldale, Pennsylvania) who "won the state championship gold medal in the Class B Half Mile Relay race" (1948) was used as a concert backdrop in 2016 during "[[Mention::Because Of My Poor Education]]" | ||