Maynard's House
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)Maynard's House is a horror novel by
Salem Witch Trials
. Austin moves into the house, and shortly thereafter is trapped when an unexpectedly strong winter storm sweeps in. Isolated in the home, the narrator begins to try to come to terms with the trauma of the things he witnessed in combat, and grows increasingly paranoid that the home might be haunted by the murdered witch.
The themes of a man troubled by his inheritance of something belonging to a dead soldier, and of a man's best friend being killed in war, are ones that run in many of Herman Raucher's works, and are implicitly tied to traumatic events in his own life: He lost his virginity to a traumatized war widow, and his best friend, an army medic, was killed in combat in the Korean War on Raucher's birthday.
References
- ^ Thompson, Jaden (January 11, 2024). "Herman Raucher, Screenwriter of 'Summer of '42', Dies at 95". Variety. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
- Herman Raucher. Maynard's House. Berkley Publishing Group, Aug 1, 1981