However, when troubled young Burke Campbell moves to Beacon Cove, he challenges the community's superstitions and fears and forces Joel to face the reality of who he is.and who his father is. They must forbid him from attending wakes and do all they can to protect themselves from his evil. The religious leadership announces that the sineater, overburdened with sins he has consumed, has become the embodiment of the devil. She has written historical fiction for young adults as well as mainstream fiction, media tie-ins, and non-fiction for American History textbooks and educational readers and testing programs. They appear at wakes and eat a light meal prepared for them by the grieving family and placed on the corpse of the recently deceased loved one. She won the awards for Sineater and Stephen. Sineaters, a tradition that made it to the states from Scotland and Wales, are outsiders, shunned by the community but necessary to its functioning. A rash of violent crimes and murders rock Beacon Cove. Massies horror novels, novelizations, comics, and collections include: Sineater (1992 - Pan Books, 1994 - Carroll & Graf, 1998 - Leisure, and 2004 - Simon &. Elizabeth Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror novels and short fiction. Joel, the younger son, attends the community school but is either ignored or taunted by the other students. The elder son, Curry, works as an oak weaver and prepares himself for life as the sineater when his father dies. The sineater has a family, yet even they must be asleep on the rare occasions he comes home for a midnight meal. As mourners at the wake turn to face the wall, the sineater enters to eat food off the chest of the dead, thus taking on the sins of the departed and cleansing the soul to enter heaven. He comes out only when a death occurs in the small community of Beacon Cove. The sineater is a mysterious, terrifying figure of the night, condemned to live alone in. The sineater is a mysterious, terrifying figure of the night, condemned to live alone in the mountains.

Sineater by elizabeth massie