The Hound of Westover County by Glynn Custred

Releases March 2012.

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Glynn Custred is professor emeritus at California State University-East Bay in Hayward, California. He has taught courses on folklore, folk beliefs, and related subjects at California State University East Bay, Hayward and at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Southern California as well as at the Osher Life Long Learning Institute at Cal State East Bay. He has written articles on the US-Mexico border for national magazine TheAmerican Spectator, and essays on various topics for literary journals such as The Southern Quarterly, Big Muddy, South Carolina Review, and the St. Croix Review. His review of Cormack McCarthy's Border Trilogy was published in The Journal of Borderland Studies, and his articles on Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu have appeared in Neohelicon and Interlitteraria. Custred is a member of the American Folklore Society and has lectured on various topics in the genre, among them a lecture titled "Encountering the Otherworldly" for the Bernard Osher Foundation Lifelong Learning Institute at California State University.

About the Novella:
The Hound of Westover County takes place in the rural Midwest. Stanley and Katie are two ordinary people: he is a young man with a close, almost mystical relationship with nature, and she is a practical, young Amish woman in a tense relationship with an overbearing father. The two draw closer together, finally moving to a remote place on the river to live in a house that he has built, and that she makes into a home. What they encounter there, neither of them expected could ever happen to anyone. In the end, the couple is faced with a choice―to leave behind the comforts of home or move to the city to make a new life. Regardless of the choice, their unsettling experience touches their lives forever, leaving its mark of tragedy.