Southern Gods

Name: Southern Gods
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: John Hornor Jacobs
ISBN: 9781455825202

Author: John Hornor Jacobs

Narrator: Eric G. Dove

Unabridged: 8 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 08/16/2011

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

A MEMPHIS DJ HIRES RECENT WORLD WAR II VETERAN Bull Ingram to find Ramblin’ John Hastur, a mysterious bluesman whose dark, driving music — broadcast at ever-shifting frequencies by a phantom radio station — is said to make living men insane and dead men rise. A bootlegged snippet of Hastur’s strange, brooding tune fills Bull with an inexplicably murderous rage. Driven to find the song’s mysterious singer, Bull hears rumors that the bluesman sold his soul to the Devil. But as Bull follows Hastur’s trail into the eerie backwoods of Arkansas, he’ll learn there are forces much more malevolent than the Devil and reckonings more painful than Hell . . . “Great Yuggoth, what a great debut novel! John Hornor Jacobs establishes himself as an author to heed.” — W. H. Pugmire, author of The Tangled Muse

About John Hornor Jacobs

John Hornor Jacobs' first novel, Southern Gods, was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel. His young adult series, The Incarcerado Trilogy comprised of The Twelve-Fingered Boy, The Shibboleth, and The Conformity, was described by Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing as ""amazing"" and received a starred Booklist review. His Fisk & Shoe fantasy series composed of The Incorruptibles, Foreign Devils, and Infernal Machines has thrice been shortlisted for the David Gemmell Award and was described by Patrick Rothfuss like so: ""One part ancient Rome, two parts wild west, one part Faust. A pinch of Tolkien, of Lovecraft, of Dante. This is strange alchemy, a recipe I’ve never seen before. I wish more books were as fresh and brave as this."" His fiction has appeared in Playboy Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Apex Magazine. Follow him on Twitter at @johnhornor.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on July 23, 2019

I admire the way John Hornor Jacobs' first novel combines different genres--private eye and hillbilly noir, Stephen King horror and H.P. Lovecraft terror, with a bit of "Gone With the Wind" and the Robert Johnson blues myth thrown in for good measure--into a coherent whole. Unlike many first novels-......more

Goodreads review by Lou on July 03, 2012

There is a music that once heard has an effect upon the listener and also there are books out there filled with pages that once glanced at have an effect upon the reader. Occult books that document other gods, worlds, and evil forces some may see them as Humbug and false but other know too well of t......more

Goodreads review by Steve on October 09, 2011

As a first book, Southern Gods is an outstanding achievement. When I first read the outline for the story, involving music, noir, the deep south, and Lovecraftian horror, I had my doubts. I feared name dropping on the music end, and been-there, done-that, on the Horror end. Not so, at least not unti......more

Goodreads review by Marvin on May 13, 2012

Flannery O'Connor marries H. P. Lovecraft. Now that's a wedding I would love to attend. OK, so I might be stretching the point here but John Hornor Jacobs has managed to write an intriguing marriage of Southern Gothic and Lovecraftian horror. The plot of Southern Gods evolves around an ex-veteran knu......more

Goodreads review by David on September 04, 2011

If you like the horror stories of H.P. Lovecraft or any of the authors influenced by him (which is pretty much anyone who has written a horror novel in the last century) then you should definitely read this. It's a horror story set in the 1950s South, mixing Elder Gods with the blues, full of gibber......more