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Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs

Southern Gods

John Hornor Jacobs

Night Shade Books · Print & ebook · August 1, 2011

A Horror pick for readers exploring Southern Gods.

HorrorThe Occult & SupernaturalGothic Romancemystery
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Who it’s for
A hard-edged search for a blues musician opens onto Southern Gothic menace and Lovecraftian horror.
Themes
Fragility of free will, The power of sacrifice, The strength of blood
Genres
Horror, Gothic Romance, The Occult & Supernatural

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About this book

Recent World War II veteran Bull Ingram is working as muscle when a Memphis DJ hires him to find Ramblin' John Hastur. The mysterious blues man's dark, driving music—broadcast at ever-shifting frequencies by a phantom radio station—is said to make living men insane and dead men rise.

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Disturbed and enraged by the bootleg recording the DJ plays for him, Ingram follows Hastur's trail into the strange, uncivilized backwoods of Arkansas, where he hears rumors the musician has sold his soul to the Devil. But as Ingram closes in on Hastur and those who have crossed his path, he'll learn there are forces much more malevolent than the Devil and reckonings more painful than Hell… In a masterful debut of Lovecraftian horror and Southern gothic menace, John Hornor Jacobs reveals the fragility of free will, the dangerous power of sacrifice, and the insidious strength of blood.

Blues After Dark

A hard-edged search for a blues musician opens onto Southern Gothic menace and Lovecraftian horror.

Come here for

  • A phantom radio station and music with unsettling consequences
  • Arkansas backwoods steeped in rumors of devilish bargains

Expect

  • A tense, darkly immersive supernatural thriller
  • Horror tangled with questions of free will and sacrifice

Where it sits

The Occult & Supernatural79%
Gothic Romance55%
Horror54%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Dark Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Gothic Romance
Authors
John Hornor Jacobs
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Published
August 1, 2011
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Fragility of free will · The power of sacrifice · The strength of blood
Reading lane
Dark Fantasy