PopHorror Let's Get Scared
Coming in the fall from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Mercedes M. Yardley is a new horror book called Darling. It will be available courtesy of the women-owned publishing house, Black Spot Books, on August 23, 2022.
Synopsis:
Cherry LaRouche escaped the claws of Darling, Louisiana, at sixteen. When she is forced to return after her mother’s death, Cherry and her children move back into her childhood home where the walls whisper and something sinister skitters across the roof at night. While Cherry tries to settle back into a town where evil spreads like infection, the bodies of several murdered children turn up. When Cherry’s own daughter goes missing, she’s forced to confront the true monsters of Darling.
The publishers say about the book:
A southern gothic with the notes of nightmare and whimsy that are the hallmark of Yardley’s writing, DARLING is a story of motherhood. Like most mothers, Cherry LaRouche will do anything to keep her beautifully broken son, Jonah— inspired by Yardley’s real-life special needs son—and her tiny daughter, Daisy, safe from the evils of Darling.
