"The titular summer people are the Allisons from New York, who rent the same off-grid country cottage each year. This time, instead of heading back to the city, they decide to extend their holiday for a month longer something that seems to unsettle everyone in the nearby town. All pass on the same veiled caution that nobody has ever stayed at the lake beyond Labor Day."
"The man who delivers the kerosene won't sell to them. No one will deliver groceries to the cottage, and when the Allisons attempt to drive into town, the car won't start. A storm gathers, the batteries in the radio fade, and as darkness falls, the two old people huddled together in their summer cottage and waited. What are the Allisons waiting for? What do the locals know?"
The Summer People recounts an elderly couple, the Allisons, who rent an off-grid lake cottage and choose to remain past Labor Day despite townspeople's veiled cautions. Town residents systematically withdraw services—fuel, groceries, transport—while mechanical failures and a gathering storm isolate the couple as night falls, leaving them to wait for an unnamed threat. Ringing the Changes follows newlyweds in a seaside town haunted by incessant bell chimes; the couple cannot find the sea at night despite sand and the smell of rotting fish, and their investigation descends into claustrophobic, necrotic ritual and danse macabre imagery that links desire to decay.
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