Swamp Gothic

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 s...