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The Edge Climbers II: Deception — Mike Tingle
This edition combines both books in The Edge Climbers series: Dementia and Deception
Set in Introit, Colorado, The Edge Climbers series commences under the dual shadows of Mt. Yakla's spectacular glacial peaks and Bronson County's haunted past. Ancient mountain secrets are slowly recalled; tales secretly passed down the generations for hundreds of years from grandfather to grandchild--terrifying ghost history, not stories. The Edge Climbers are returning, now warn the raconteurs, and this time Yakla Valley's malevolent wraiths plan to stay for dinner.
A Message from the Author!
The Edge Climbers series was first published in 1999, so some technology and events are dated and I left it that way.
One of my favorite plot lines is the Scheherazade. The Scheherazade storyline is also one of the most difficult to write and certainly one of the most challenging, yet satisfying to read.
Here are the four elements that steer a Scheherazade story:
• There is always only one storyteller who has an audience of only one listener. In The Edge Climbers,our storyteller is the ghost Darnoc and our one-man audience is the priest LeCroiux.
• The storyteller captivates his listener with a series of seemingly unrelated short stories in which new characters suddenly emerge and old characters seem to disappear and reappear randomly. The storyteller in the story uses this tactic to manipulate the listener to some ends without the listener knowing.
• Each story never quite finishes and the storyteller in the story always falsely promises the next installment answers all. If you are familiar with the origin of the plot, this is how the Persian Queen Scheherazade saved her life night after night until her husband abandoned the thought of killing her.
• The last story concludes by revealing that all the short stories and every character were really connected after all. The listener abandons his or her original beliefs and is changed forever by the experience.
I think a Scheherazade plot is wonderfully a mosaic of sorts in which the reader, not the writer, assembles the pieces and lessons. I have had dozens of readers since 1999 make tens of dozens disparate conclusions about Edge Climbers and Kelvin and Ed G. and King George and Darnoc/Conrad etc. that I never imagined -- and they are all correct!
Set in Introit, Colorado, The Edge Climbers series commences under the dual shadows of Mt. Yakla's spectacular glacial peaks and Bronson County's haunted past. Ancient mountain secrets are slowly recalled; tales secretly passed down the generations for hundreds of years from grandfather to grandchild--terrifying ghost history, not stories. The Edge Climbers are returning, now warn the raconteurs, and this time Yakla Valley's malevolent wraiths plan to stay for dinner.
A Message from the Author!
The Edge Climbers series was first published in 1999, so some technology and events are dated and I left it that way.
One of my favorite plot lines is the Scheherazade. The Scheherazade storyline is also one of the most difficult to write and certainly one of the most challenging, yet satisfying to read.
Here are the four elements that steer a Scheherazade story:
• There is always only one storyteller who has an audience of only one listener. In The Edge Climbers,our storyteller is the ghost Darnoc and our one-man audience is the priest LeCroiux.
• The storyteller captivates his listener with a series of seemingly unrelated short stories in which new characters suddenly emerge and old characters seem to disappear and reappear randomly. The storyteller in the story uses this tactic to manipulate the listener to some ends without the listener knowing.
• Each story never quite finishes and the storyteller in the story always falsely promises the next installment answers all. If you are familiar with the origin of the plot, this is how the Persian Queen Scheherazade saved her life night after night until her husband abandoned the thought of killing her.
• The last story concludes by revealing that all the short stories and every character were really connected after all. The listener abandons his or her original beliefs and is changed forever by the experience.
I think a Scheherazade plot is wonderfully a mosaic of sorts in which the reader, not the writer, assembles the pieces and lessons. I have had dozens of readers since 1999 make tens of dozens disparate conclusions about Edge Climbers and Kelvin and Ed G. and King George and Darnoc/Conrad etc. that I never imagined -- and they are all correct!
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