Four chilling novels from the New York Times -bestselling author of Swan Song and the "true master of the Gothic novel" ( Booklist ).
From rural Alabama to the Louisiana bayou to the North Carolina mountains, World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Robert R. McCammon has made the American South his own Gothic playground in these four unforgettable novels.
A Boy's Life: "Strongly echoing the childhood-elegies of King and Bradbury, and every bit their equal," this World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award-winning novel takes place in 1964 Alabama, where a twelve-year-old boy's idyllic life takes an abrupt turn into a dark world of mystery when he and his father witness a car roll into a lake—only to discover a corpse handcuffed to the steering wheel ( Kirkus Reviews).
"It's McCammon's The Prince of Tides. . . . Incredibly moving." —Peter Straub
Mystery Walk: Two boys with mysterious powers—a psychic who speaks with the dead and a faith healer—share a common bond and hold mankind's fate in their hands in an epic showdown of good versus evil.
"As finely a turned tale of horror as the best of them." — Houston Chronicle
Gone South: A veteran's moment of rage leads to a grisly murder and a heated chase deep into the bayou, where he encounters a pair of bizarre bounty hunters—and a strange new friend, who might help him find redemption.
"A gothic picaresque that mixes gritty plot and black comedy." — Wall Street Journal
Usher's Passing: Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, "The Fall of the House of Usher," is no fiction in this Gothic novel of ancestral madness in the mountains of modern-day North Carolina, as the heir to the Usher legacy—a horror novelist—confronts his terrifying inheritance.
"A frightening pleasure." — St. Louis Dispatch
