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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) 4.32 avg rating — 22 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 — 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 — 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
	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
	[American Indian Literature and the Southwest: Contexts and Dispositions] [Author: Anderson, Eric Gary] [February, 1999] by Eric Gary Anderson (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 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	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	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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Excellent lichen-centered horror/SF sorta novel. The Thing-adjacent, only way queerer and massively hotter. My first Sarah Gailey novel and absolutely not my last!
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