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That Hateful Shape: A Novel

Caumo, Steven
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1649781168461793

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2022, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Youngstown State University, Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (Creative Writing).
A work of fiction in the genres of horror and dark fantasy. The following twentyeight chapters consist of a novel-in-progress. Set in the fictional small town of Evergreen, PA, That Hateful Shape follows protagonist Persephone “Percy” Birch, a queer artist and the only daughter of the sheriff. Percy is hopelessly in love with her best friend, Cheryl Young, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. The night of Percy’s seventeenth birthday, Cheryl is killed by a group of local privileged boys, who bury her body in the forest of an old oak tree. Unknown to them, the tree contains the last living dryad – a mythical tree spirit – and she is enraged by the damage done to her forest and the environment by humanity. The dryad consumes Cheryl’s corpse via her roots, inadvertently assimilating her memories and consciousness, and emerges from her tree to wreak bloody vengeance. As Percy searches for answers to Cheryl’s disappearance, she begins uncovering secrets, while the dryad finds herself inexplicably drawn to Percy.
Christopher Barzak, MFA (Advisor)
Imad Rahman, MFA (Committee Member)
David Giffels, MA (Committee Member)
164 p.
Literature
Fiction; Horror; Fantasy

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  • Caumo, S. (2022). That Hateful Shape: A Novel [Master's thesis, Youngstown State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1649781168461793

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Caumo, Steven. That Hateful Shape: A Novel. 2022. Youngstown State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1649781168461793.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Caumo, Steven. "That Hateful Shape: A Novel." Master's thesis, Youngstown State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1649781168461793

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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