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WHERE DARK THINGS RISE
Sixteen-year-old Mina is frustrated by Daddy’s drinking, her mom’s fanatical religious beliefs, and growing up poor in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Most of her teachers assume she won’t amount to much despite her 4.0 GPA, and the country club guys think her easy prey. But they don’t know Mina’s dark secret: she can control a magical force of supernatural creatures known as the Shadow Faces.
Mina doesn’t want powers. All she wants to do is escape the trailer park for a leafy college campus far away. But when her crush, Gabe, is stalked by a shapeshifting preacher/wolf, Mina learns to use her powers to protect him. Mina soon discovers the same preacher is trafficking teens for a mystical brothel and has kidnapped her best friend Erin after a failed attempt at conversion therapy. Can Mina use the Shadow Faces to save Erin and the other kids without losing her chance at a normal life?
Where Dark Things Rise is a winner of an IndieReader Discovery Award for horror, and a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Publisher: Quill and Crow Publishing House
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David Allen Voyles
David Allen Voyles
Reading Andrew K. Clark’s sequel, Where Dark Things Rise, feels like returning to a familiar mountain cottage and settling into the comfortable sheets of a warm bed while the cold, stormy night whispers promises of visits from both new and familiar horrors—wulvers, gargoyle-faced shadows, and of course, humans so vile you can’t wait for them to die.
Jamieson Ridenhour
Jamieson Ridenhour
Where Dark Things Rise is a dazzling, blood-soaked love story, a parable of predators and vengeance, and a smoke-dark thrill ride, and standing at its center is a sixteen-year-old girl who is every bit as terrifying as the evil she faces. I loved Mina, and I loved this book. You will too.
Jendia Gammon
Jendia Gammon
Andrew K. Clark’s Where Dark Things Rise further cements him as a master of Southern Appalachian folk horror. Steeped in mountain myth and shadows, Clark’s words sink their claws deep into your heart, bursting with vivid scenes on a dark and haunting landscape. Breathtaking allegory and pulse-pounding action keep you riveted to the end, and the eclectic, engaging cast of characters will have me thinking about this story for a long time.
Lee Stockdale
Lee Stockdale
Where Dark Things Rise expertly portrays the archetypal 80s high school bully, good guy, rich girl, poor girl, poor girl’s younger bitchy sister, racist redneck, et al. In the hands of a less experienced writer these characters are walking cliché time bombs. Clark makes each real, relatable, identifiable, likable or not. Strap in. This book scared the shit out of me.
P.M. Raymond
P.M. Raymond
Appalachian horror has a worthy contributor to the genre. Where Dark Things Rise, the master work of author Andrew K. Clark, delivers a thoughtful commentary on rural poverty, belonging, and the demons that haunt all of us. Clark plays in the same sandbox as standouts in the Appalachian noir genre, such as Meagan Lucas and Andy Davidson, with depth and skill in immersing the reader in an engrossing tale that will keep any reader turning the page.
Paulette Kennedy
Paulette Kennedy
A terror-spiked thrill ride of a novel that leaves room for tender moments of raw beauty and bittersweet nostalgia…Religious trauma, generational curses, folk horror, and themes of found family create a compelling Appalachian Gothic narrative shot through with magic and touches of surrealism. Clark's characters bear their bruises and broken hearts with ennobling pride and a fierce, poetic grace. Where Dark Things Rise mesmerizes completely.
Polly Schattel
Polly Schattel
Where Dark Things Rise is a horrific but tender 1980s trailer-park bildungsroman that drips with authenticity and real magic. Clark's a true-blue Appalachian, and he proves it again in this tale of monstrous entities, dark designs, and wildly imaginative mountain nightmares.”