Southern Gods
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.
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...
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Book details
- Publisher
- Night Shade Books
- Publication date
- 2011
- Print length
- 290 pages
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 978-1597803533
Blues (Music)
What to Know Before Reading Southern Gods
Atmospheric, dark blend of Southern Gothic fiction and cosmic horror. Set in the summer of 1950 Arkansas, the story follows Bull Ingram, a scarred World War II veteran working as a muscle-for-hire, who is hired by a Memphis DJ to track down a mysterious blues musician named Ramblin' John Hastur. This elusive musician's radio broadcasts are rumored to drive listeners into fits of violent madness and strange, unearthly hysteria.
As Ingram ventures deeper into the oppressive heat of the Deep South, his investigation forces him to cross paths with Sarah Miller, a woman fleeing her own abusive past, leading them both into a terrifying world where ancient, cosmic entities collide with the violent realities of human nature.
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