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Erica Waters

    Erica Waters crafts YA contemporary fantasy novels imbued with a Southern Gothic sensibility. Her narratives delve into themes of identity, otherness, and the search for belonging, often unfolding in atmospheric and mysterious settings. Waters excels at creating immersive stories that resonate with the emotional landscapes of young adult readers, leaving a lasting impact.

    The Gathering Dark
    Ghost Wood Song
    The River Has Teeth
    • Ghost Wood Song

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.7(2620)Add rating

      Shady Grove inherited her father's ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she also knows the fiddle's tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness. But when her brother is accused of murder, she can't let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, she's going to have to make those ghosts sing

      Ghost Wood Song
    • The Gathering Dark

      An Anthology of Folk Horror

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      These are the stories that haunt us A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath of the third fire looming. A rural, isolated bridge with a terrifying monster waiting for the completion of its summoning ritual. A lake that allows the drowned to return, though they have been changed by the claws of death. These are the shadowed, liminal spaces where the curses and monsters lurk, refusing to be forgotten. Hauntings, and a variety of horrifying secrets, lurk in the places we once called home. Written by New York Times bestselling, and other critically acclaimed, authors these stories shed a harsh light on the scariest tales we grew up with.

      The Gathering Dark