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	Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture by Eric Gary Anderson (Goodreads Author), Taylor Hagood (Editor), Daniel Cross Turner (Editor) 4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs by Joseph M. Flora (Editor), Timothy D. Adams (Contributor), Eric Gary Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies by Kirstin L. Squint (Editor), Eric Gary Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Taylor Hagood (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Indian Literature and the Southwest: Contexts and Dispositions 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures: Winter 2006-07; Volume 60, Number 1: Special Issue on American Indian Literature and Cultures in the South 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Impossible Shot: Race, Genre, and Spectacle in Jordan Peele’s Nope by Eric Gary Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Russell Meeuf (Editor), Nancy McGuire Roche (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television by Lisa Hinrichsen (Editor), Gina Caison (Editor), Stephanie Rountree (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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15 Years of Blumhouse, by Blumhouse. What could go wrong? If you want to read one big, self-congratulatory advertisement for Blumhouse horror movies, this is the book for you. You'll find out that Jason Blum always makes great decisions. Always! It's ...more
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Wildly implausible plot presented as if it can be disentangled and explained in a completely rational way. If Edgar Allan Poe were a 21st-century Japanese writer, he might put out novels like Uketsu's. They're a lot of fun to read. ...more
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I had so much fun reading this novel! Set in 15th-century England and Ireland, when Chaucer was one of the more recent writers and heads were being lopped off left and right thanks to monarchical politics, The Pretender gives us a handsome young boy ...more
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