{"product_id":"where-dark-things-grow","title":"Where Dark Things Grow","description":"\u003cp\u003eFifteen-year-old Leo is watching the world crumble. His father is missing and his mother is slipping into madness as she cares for Leo, his sick sister Goldfish, and two useless brothers. Relatives are no help and the church folk have turned their backs in the midst of the Great Depression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he discovers an enchanted wulver from ancient folklore that will do his bidding, he decides to settle old scores. Revenge is sweet, but Leo soon learns he can't control what he's unleashed. It takes his spitfire best friend Lilyfax to help Leo overcome his anger and try to escape the wulver's evil. As they search for his father, Leo, Lilyfax, and friends are pursued by dark forces and pulled into a rescue effort to find and save trafficked girls rumored to have been taken by the mysterious Blue Man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing elements of horror, folklore, and magical realism, Where Dark Things Grow is a dark bildungsroman set squarely in the place and culture of the 1930s Southern Appalachian Mountains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you're a fan of magical realism and Appalachian Gothic, Andrew K. Clark's Where Dark Things Grow is a must-read -- a high and haunting tale of highland lore that burns with forces both dark and light, rendered with a poet's eye for detail and wild sparks of wonder.\u003cbr\u003e–\u003cstrong\u003eTaylor Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eRednecks and Gods of Howl Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarthy, primal horror full of backwoods magic and poetry, Where Dark Things Grow is a terrific first showing by a lyrical new voice. Andrew K. Clark is one to watch!\u003cbr\u003e–\u003cstrong\u003eAndy Davidson\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Hollow Kind\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is Southern Gothic that blows the rockers right off that big Appalachian front porch. Andrew K. Clark has written a fierce narrative rife with an evil foreboding in the 1930s, North Carolina, Blue Ridge mountains. Prose that shimmers with the atmosphere of the darkest midnight hue. All Hail \u003cem\u003eWhere Dark Things Grow\u003c\/em\u003e— a novel that burns with frozen blue horrors.\u003cbr\u003e–\u003cstrong\u003eDaren Dean\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eRoads, This Vale of Tears, and The Black Harvest: A Novel of the American South\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith roots as deep and tangled as the Blue Man's trees, \u003cem\u003eWhere Dark Things Grow\u003c\/em\u003e is a mesmerizing tale of magic and monsters, of family and fate, but also a reflection on the problem of power and the weight of abuses the most vulnerable carry, and how maybe we should be looking to the children to save us. A bold debut from a natural storyteller.\u003cbr\u003e–\u003cstrong\u003eMeagan Lucas\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eSongbirds and Stray Dogs and Here in the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen King meets Appalachia meets Flannery O'Connor's the Misfit.\u003cbr\u003e–\u003cstrong\u003eLeslie Pietrzyk\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eAdmit This to No One\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet me be plain – \u003cem\u003eWhere Dark Things Grow\u003c\/em\u003e is full of magic, in the deepest, oldest sense of the word. At times endearing, at times brutal, but at all times haunting, Andrew K. Clark's debut novel is a spiraling tale in the greatest tradition of the Southern Gothic. Creeping out of the mythic and the monsters, the Old Testament revenge lines and the old world occult, is a tale of men and women, boys and girls, each at their most fallible, each being tempted and tested. This is not the sort of praise I throw around lightly, but it must be said- with \u003cem\u003eWhere Dark Things Grow \u003c\/em\u003eClark has made his mark in Appalachian literature.\u003cbr\u003e–\u003cstrong\u003eSteph Post\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eMiraculum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCowboy Jamboree Press\u003cbr\u003egood grit lit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spineless Reads","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54709665988881,"sku":"zcy1789957039965","price":12.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0972\/0024\/2961\/files\/where-dark-things-grow_1.jpg?v=1789957044","url":"https:\/\/petbandanas.shop\/products\/where-dark-things-grow","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}