A landmark collection of short stories, published posthumously, following the author’s tragic suicide, that captures his raw, gritty, and relentlessly bleak perception of rural Appalachia.
Tag: Appalachian fiction
Review – The Old Gods Waken
A wandering balladeer and a medicine man must stop two English Druids from awakening ancient blood spirits and performing a human sacrifice.
Review – The Hum and the Shiver
When a fierce, pure-blood Tufa soldier is discharged back to the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, she finds her toughest battle isn’t the war she left behind, but surviving ominous death tokens, a dangerous ex-boyfriend, and her own forgotten magic.
Review – The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
A young woman with a genetic disorder that turns her skin blue braves the harsh hills of 1930s Kentucky as a traveling packhorse librarian, fighting deep-seated prejudice to bring the magic of books to isolated Appalachian communities.