There is something particularly unsettling about a small Southern town where everyone knows something you don’t. The friendly conversations, the peculiar local traditions, the families who have lived there for …
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Hendrix has a particular talent for taking seemingly ridiculous horror concepts and turning them into stories that are funny, unsettling, surprisingly emotional, and occasionally downright terrifying. How to Sell a …
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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 …
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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 …
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There are plenty of horror novels that try to make you afraid of the dark. The Elementals does something much more interesting: it makes broad daylight feel dangerous. Michael McDowell’s …
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I enjoyed Wolf Worm, but I’m not going to pretend it didn’t test my patience. There were several points while I was reading it — especially when I looked down …
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The Walls Are Closing In On Us feels like a book pulled from the riverbank after a hard rain — muddy, mournful, strange, beautiful, and still carrying the weight of …
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Blood and Treasure is the kind of history book that reminds you why some figures never really leave the American imagination. Daniel Boone is one of those names that most …
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The Line That Held Us feels dragged out of the mud somewhere deep in the mountains of North Carolina and handed directly to the reader with dirt still on it. …
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I know, I know… this book is not a true “Southern” book, but we wanted to mix it up for our Book Club, and Bigfoot, well…Bigfoot is sort of awesome! …
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