The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 10th, 1996
Country Matters. By August Derleth. Collected and introduced by Peter Ruber. Hawk & Whipporwill. $25, hardcover; $17, paper. 305 pages. " . . . and the moon hung like an orange pumpkin low in the east. All around the house in the soft evening air lay the sweetness of apple blossoms, riding the light south wind, and from the twilit woodland came the liquid notes of wood-thrushes." In other words, it's spring in August Derleth's Sac Prairie, and just the sort of perfect Wisconsin night for Great-Aunt Lou Stoll to be stirring things up again, in this case "Moonlight in the Apple Tree" bringing ...
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