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 …
Southern Reads: Those Across The River Read More
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 …
Southern Reads: How To Sell A Haunted House Read More
In the fall of 1996, a sixteen-year-old boy in Murray, Kentucky, was telling people he was a vampire. Not someone who enjoyed vampire movies or dressed like Dracula for Halloween. …
SBP Podcast Episode 25: The Vampire Clan Murders – Rod Ferrell aka Vesago Read More
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 …
Southern Reads: The Twisted Ones Read More
Florida is already a place where the strange can feel completely believable. Alligators disappear beneath black water. Panthers move through forests without most people ever seeing them. Wild monkeys live …
SBP Podcast Episode 24: The Skunk Ape – Bigfoot in the Swamp Read More
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 …
13 Southern Horror Book You Need to Read This Spooky Season Read More
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 …
Southern Reads: The Elementals Read More
There are places in the South where you do not need much imagination to believe that something might be watching you. The Florida Everglades certainly qualify. It is a landscape …
The Swamp Has a Soul: The Strange History of Marvel’s Man-Thing Read More
Few people in Southern history have become as inseparable from a city as Marie Laveau is from New Orleans. She was real—a free woman of color born in New Orleans …
SBP Podcast Episode 23: Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen Read More
I go to SCarowinds pretty much every year, and I was back at Carowinds for opening weekend in 2026. One of the things I enjoy about returning is seeing what …
SCarowinds 2026: What’s New, What’s Back, and What to Know Before You Go Read More