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Tales From One Weird Mississippi Town

by William R. Eakin

Forget Arkham and Dogpatch, Yoknapatawpha County and Hooterville, forget what guidebooks might allege, because the weirdest town to be found in the Western Hemisphere is Redgunk, Mississippi. For over twenty years, author William Eakin has been spinning tales of this backwater place, where strange encounters are more than local gossip, and the kudzu hides all manner of creatures and adventures. These stories were first published in such magazines as Realms of Fantasy, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Epiphany: A Journal of Literature, Amazing Stories, Science Fiction Age, New Writings in the Fantastic, Holy Horrors, Albedo One, Black October Magazine, SciFiction, the Year’s Best Fantasy, Age of Wonder, and others.

Hardcover with book jacket, 610 pages

Cover art by Daniel Bitton, cover design by Inkspiral, author drawing and map by Dylan Eakin

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"William R. Eakin's stories soar and scatter like crows before buckshot. You never know which direction they'll go, but to read them is to be taken to a place where the journey truly does matter more than the destination. There is a whiff of the old masters here: Bradbury, Faulkner, O'Connor, and something more, something that is all Eakin. It's his voice, sure, a voice that rings out with the fury and truth of thunder over a dark cornfield. It's also the mood, the wisdom, the humor, and yes, the bits of intangible magic that push these stories beyond the restraints of literature and into the realm of myth. Redgunk-and these stories- will stay with me forever." - John Mantooth

"Redgunk is simultaneously a place of prosaic horror and impossible beauty...author William R. Eakin provides readers with plenty of swamp gas and a piercing view into the human soul." - A. M. Dellamonica, Science Fiction Weekly

"Sort of like Thomas Wolfe on acid, or James Joyce on moonshine, Bill Eakin takes the words, the rhythms, the heat, the mud, the cicadas and the kudzu of the south and turns them into stories that touch your heart while messing with your brain stem and possibly tampering with your DNA. A truly original and unique voice." - Shawna McCarthy, Realms of Fantasy