By Kenneth J. Harvey
Something unusual is occurring within the beach city of Bareneed. legendary creatures are being pulled from the ocean, completely preserved corpses of long-lost villagers are washing up at the shore, and citizens of town are by surprise triumph over by way of a mysterious disease that's making them overlook the right way to breathe.
A page-turning gothic mystery such as H. P. Lovecraft, The city That Forgot the best way to Breathe is "a novel of magnificent ambition and unusual, haunting loveliness. . . . An absolute triumph of the storyteller's artwork" (Joseph O'Connor, writer of Star of the Sea).
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