8 Appalachian Horror Books for Your Book Club
Appalachian horror is having a moment.
About the author
Andrew K. Clark
Andrew K. Clark is a writer from Western North Carolina, where his family has lived since before the Revolutionary War. His novels Where Dark Things Grow and Where Dark Things Rise each won an IPPY award, and his third, Hollow Folk, earned a Kirkus “Get It” verdict. He co-hosts the Dark Forms podcast and holds an MFA from Converse University.
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Featured novel
Hollow Folk
The night shift at the Holloway was supposed to be quiet. When grad student Ethan Ray clocks in as night auditor at the aging Holloway mountain resort, he expects paperwork, silence, and a paycheck. Instead, reddish-brown lights… bleed across the Appalachian sky. Hard winds whip through the trees without making a sound, and mysterious owl gargoyles come to life.
At 3 a.m., every clock stops. Trapped inside with his co-workers, Kal and Teresa, Ethan realizes the hotel isn't just old. It's a boundary. Something ancient has been waiting and is now awake. To escape, they must uncover the Holloway's secrets, even as unexpected love blossoms between Ethan and Teresa. The problem is, the visions haunting each of them carry the same warning: someone in the hotel cannot be trusted. Gothic romance meets Appalachian folk horror, where the mountains are watching and the dark leaves marks.
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