The Remaking, Clay McLeod Chapman
The Remaking, Clay McLeod Chapman
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The Remaking

Author: Clay McLeod Chapman

Narrator: Corey Allen, Clay McLeod Chapman, Morgan Hallett, Suzy Jackson

Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/08/2019


Synopsis

Inspired by a true story, this supernatural thriller for fans of horror and true crime follows a tale as it evolves every twenty years-with terrifying results. Ella Louise has lived in the woods surrounding Pilot's Creek, Virginia, for nearly a decade. Publicly, she and her daughter Jessica are shunned by their upper-crust family and the Pilot's Creek residents. Privately, desperate townspeople visit her apothecary for a cure to what ails them-until Ella Louise is blamed for the death of a prominent customer. Accused of witchcraft, both mother and daughter are burned at the stake in the middle of the night. Ella Louise's burial site is never found, but the little girl has the most famous grave in the South: a steel-reinforced coffin surrounded by a fence of interconnected white crosses. Their story will take the shape of an urban legend as it's told around a campfire by a man forever marked by his boyhood encounters with Jessica. Decades later, a boy at that campfire will cast Amber Pendleton as Jessica in a '70s horror movie inspired by the Witch Girl of Pilot's Creek. Amber's experiences on that set and its meta-remake in the '90s will ripple through pop culture, ruining her life and career after she becomes the target of a witch hunt. Amber's best chance to break the cycle of horror comes when a true-crime investigator tracks her down to interview her for his popular podcast. But will this final act of storytelling redeem her-or will it bring the story full circle, ready to be told once again? And again. And again . . .

About Clay McLeod Chapman

Clay McLeod Chapman writes books, children's books, comic books, film and TV. His novels include The Remaking and Whisper Down the Lane.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter

"We all become ghost stories one day." What an enigmatic sentence in a very interesting horror novel. It started with the burning of a witch, goes to the making of a trashy 70s horror flic (Don't Tread on Jessica's Grave) and turns into a remake 20 years later. Amber Pendleton is Jessica, the daught......more

Goodreads review by Blair

I was hooked by the concept of The Remaking. It tracks the evolution of a local ghost story about a 'little witch girl' through several decades. We hear the original 1930s campfire tale first: a suspected witch, Ella Louise Ford, was hounded out of the town of Pilot's Creek after bringing disgrace u......more

Goodreads review by Amy

1.5 stars The Remaking had all of the ingredients to make a hit—a ghost story, a spooky film myth, and the Groundhog Day-type concept of repeated actions. (But I hated it.) Concept: ★★★★ Writing: ★ 1/2 Pacing: ★★ Alright, so the setup is this: A urban legend about a woman named Ella Louise and her daught......more