A Requiem for Dead Flies / Peter N. Dudar / 280 pages / Bram Stoker Award Nominee

"The house on Battle View Farm is an oppressive beast with sinister purposes.  It seems to feed on bad memories, sucking the meat away and exposing the bones of hidden secrets."  The MacAuley brothers spent a scary summer there when Les was 13 and their baby sister, Sally, was stillborn.  Their grandmother, Vivian, was in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's , rambling on with gossip in an almost trance-like state, having tea parties and conversations with dead files, and treating the brothers in haphazard and at time cruel ways.  Now that Grandmother Vivian had died, the younger brother, Gordon, has convince hit lit professor brother to spend the summer on the farm, in Grandmother's Vivian's house, as they attempt to produce their own bourbon and make the farm a profitable enterprise - big mistake!