Swamp Gothic

by Robert Pickering

Overview

Sitting at Grandma's feet on cold winter nights as you are growing up, and listening to her spin her tales of the Rougarou, the fifolet or the ghosts inhabiting the antebellum mansions along River Road it's impossible for it not to have an effect on you. The perhaps unintended consequences in this case is that it produced 13 frightening tales related to the reader from a first person point of view, just as Grandma used to tell them. If there is one common theme connecting these uncommonly scary stories, it would be that each of them is flavored with its own unique blend of creole seasoning or Cajun spices. From the seemingly harmless "Miss Annabell" to a hideous, nameless, creature that walks among the rows of the sugarcane fields there is always something lurking just around the next corner. They also illustrate how even people who have grown up in and around the swamps know it's never wise to venture out alone at night.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163355549
Publisher:	Robert Pickering
Publication date:	10/06/2019
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	207 KB

About the Author

I never wanted to be thought of as an author. Somehow to me, authors were the men and women who populated the pages of those dreaded anthologies we were forced to read in school. The worst fate I could possibly suffer would be to appear alongside Hemmingway, Melville or O'Connor in one of those enormous volumes - not that I have anything to worry about on that score. I would much prefer a space on bookshelf next to the likes of Stephen King, James Patterson or John Grisham. Better yet, to be in the tote bag of some young lady headed to the beach.  I've always considered myself more of a storyteller. If I can get you engrossed in one of my stories, I'm satisfied that I've done my job.  I was born and raised in South Louisiana, and draw on the heritage and folklore of the area. Though I may veer off into other genres from time-to-time, be it crime dramas, action adventure, non-fiction, even romance, I find myself returning to my roots time and again. I've also moved around the Southeast, first to Georgia, and then North Carolina. In both cases, I managed to pick up on some of the character of the place, and include it in my writing.  I currently live in the city of Wilmington, North Carolina with my wife, my youngest daughter and two dogs.