Southern Reads: The Twisted Ones

I liked The Twisted Ones quite a bit, but I think the version of this book I liked the most was the one where I had absolutely no idea what was waiting in the woods. That uncertainty is where T. Kingfisher is at her best. A strange journal. Unsettling figures standing among the trees. A…

13 Southern Horror Book You Need to Read This Spooky Season

The South has always been good at telling ghost stories. Maybe it is the landscape. Miles of pine forest where the road disappears around the next bend. Swamps that seem to swallow everything around them. Old houses sitting quietly beneath live oaks. Small towns where everybody knows everybodyβ€”and where everybody seems to know at least…

Southern Reads: The Walls Are Closing In On Us.

The Walls Are Closing In On Us feels like a book pulled from the riverbank after a hard rain β€” muddy, mournful, strange, beautiful, and still carrying the weight of whatever happened upstream. And this is exactly the kind of book that belongs in our Book Club. Join us by heading over to Patreon at…

Southern Reads: On Trails

For our January 2026 Book Club selection, we read On Trails, a book that quietly reshapes how you understand movement, land, and the invisible systems that guide both. Robert Moor’s On Trails is not a hiking memoir in the traditional sense, nor is it a straight work of natural history. Instead, it is a slow,…