From the acclaimed author of such novels as Blood and Grits and Childhood comes an original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia.

A collection of 20 short stories celebrating the new American South, including narratives from the Civil War and the Vietnam War.

In rural North Carolina, a young boy witnesses a tragic death during an extreme healing ritual at a fanatical small-town church.

A three-generation saga of the MacIvey family carving a cattle-and-citrus fortune out of Florida's frontier scrub, swamp, and cracker culture from the 1850s to the 1960s. 

Four women scientists venture into Area X, an uncanny, ecologically transformed stretch of Florida coastline that has swallowed civilization and defies their expedition to understand it.

Dispossessed of his family's land, an increasingly deranged outcast retreats into the caves and hollows of rural Tennessee, descending into squatting, murder, and necrophilia.

A collection of dark, unsettling short stories by Suzanne Hudson, whose work evokes Flannery O’Connor—stripped of religious faith—and has earned acclaim from leading Southern writers.

Told entirely through her letters, the novel follows Ivy Rowe's life from a poor Appalachian-Virginia childhood through motherhood and old age in the coalfield hollows she never leaves.

Seventeen-year-old Julie Harmon marries and moves to Gap Creek, where she and her husband struggle against poverty, natural disasters, hard work, and difficult neighbors as they try to build a life and keep their marriage intact.

A multi-generational historical novel following a woman who visits her estranged grandmother in the hills of North Carolina and uncovers her family's ties to the real-life Kingdom of the Happy Land, a post-Civil War settlement of formerly enslaved people.

Mary Hood’s stories reveal the fear, anger, and longing lurking beneath ordinary life in the rural South, where family gatherings, church services, and quiet afternoons can give way to violence, desperation, and buried rage.

Collected stories of struggling, often doomed rural Tennesseans — moonshiners, drifters, the desperate — rendered in violent, Gothic-tinged prose.

A hard-drinking ex-con named Joe Ransom crosses paths with Gary Jones, a desperate teenage boy determined to escape his troubled family. Together, the unlikely pair navigate violence, poverty, and temptation on a dangerous path toward redemption—or ruin.

A modern Black woman is repeatedly pulled back in time to an antebellum Maryland plantation.

In a near-future world devastated by fires and extremism, a young Appalachian man flees a collapsing America for sanctuary in Ireland.

In 1920s North Carolina, restless young Eugene Gant longs to escape his turbulent family and small-town life. Drawn by wanderlust and a hunger for intellectual freedom, he struggles to find his place and forge a greater life.

A boy travels alone through the South Carolina Lowcountry marshes with only a half-wild dog, seeking a conjure man's grave dust to cure his ailing father and running afoul of a hoodoo doctor's lingering curse.

In 1952 Tennessee, a violent, long-absent father returns home after 30 years, reigniting old wounds and family rivalries. As his grandson Fleming falls for the mysterious Raven Lee, their lives spiral into violence, betrayal, and the possibility of redemption.

Repressed desire, obsession, and violence simmer among officers and their wives at a peacetime Georgia army post.

Sixteen-year-old Leontyne Skye struggles to escape a Georgia barrier island where women in her family are doomed by the addictive drug they distill from an ancient fig tree. After her mother’s death, Leontyne must confront a fractured past and the burden of carrying on the family legacy.

A young man comes of age moonshining, hunting, and scraping a living from the Florida scrub along the Ocklawaha River.

A man who has renounced his prosperous family lives among drunks, criminals, and drifters on a houseboat on the Tennessee River in Knoxville.

In 1930s East Texas, a young boy and his sister discover the body of a murdered Black woman tied to a tree, hunting a swamp killer.

In 1980s rural Missouri, a teenage girl and her fortune-teller mother struggle to escape poverty, abuse, and a cheating stepfather while trying to find their place in a small town that sees them as outsiders.

Four linked, semi-autobiographical books trace Jess Kirkman's boyhood and young manhood on a North Carolina mountain farm, woven through with his family's tall tales, folklore, and eccentric kin.

Settlers struggle to clear and tame a remote Appalachian valley in the North Carolina mountains in the years just after the Revolutionary War.

A girl born during a catastrophic hurricane grows up as climate change slowly drowns and reshapes coastal Florida over her lifetime.

In 1940s rural Tennessee, young Nathan Winer discovers the dark evil behind his father’s death and joins forces with Amber Rose, a woman trapped by it. Their struggle for escape unfolds amid violence, isolation, guilt, and the faint hope of redemption.

A 12-year-old girl in the South becomes obsessed with her brother's upcoming wedding while navigating loneliness and longing.

A boy is taught to hunt, fish, and live by an old-fashioned code of honor by his grandfather along the North Carolina coast.

A mysterious stranger named Theo arrives in the small fictional town of Golden, Georgia, and quietly transforms residents' lives by returning purchased portraits to their subjects.

A troubled, unemployed teacher from South Carolina travels to New York to help his sister's psychiatrist uncover their family's traumatic past.

An Appalachian North Carolina woman endures the Civil War's divided loyalties and brutal aftermath, rebuilding her family and community through sheer will.

Spanning frontier intrigue in early-1800s West Florida through Civil War-era New Orleans to WWI-era Louisiana, the trilogy follows generations of the Woolsack family through slavery, revolution, and violent ambition in the Gulf South.

A satirical novel that depicts the brutal poverty, moral degradation, and desperation of a family of sharecroppers living in rural Georgia during the Great Depression.

After his beloved wife dies, elderly Sam Peek struggles to live alone on his Georgia farm. When he begins seeing a mysterious white dog, his family fears he is losing his grip—but Sam proves there is more to the dog, and to life, than they understand.

Teenager Kenneth Tyler discovers that his dead father was never buried—and that the local undertaker has been grotesquely manipulating corpses. Hunted by a hired killer, Tyler flees through an eerie backwoods world of outcasts, witches, and danger.

After their sharecropper father dies, teenage Mary Call Luther conceals his death from authorities and neighbors so she can keep her siblings together and independent, scraping by on wild-plant "wildcrafting" in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina.

A wandering Appalachian balladeer known as Silver John uses his silver-stringed guitar and mountain folklore to battle supernatural evils haunting isolated communities. 

Collected comic stories of eccentric, hard-luck characters in small-town South Carolina, mining absurd domestic situations for dark, Southern humor.