Overview

In these eight stories, the world reveals itself as stranger and more attentive than we allow. A girl boards a bus whose driver has no fingernails. Star-snails guide a traveler through mountains where musical instruments have teeth. A cottage offers warmth but demands silence. A man staples papers endlessly while his shadow refuses to move. From North Florida's wounded pineywoods to nameless gothic houses to suburban cul-de-sacs, these tales insist that sacrifice and witness matter. Here, June Moore walks with a knife wrapped in hair. For readers of Shirley Jackson, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Kelly Link.

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""It's amazing what horrifying worlds are portrayed here with the most lovely, precise prose.""- Ivy Grimes, author of Glass Stories and The Cellar Below the Cellar ""You owe it to yourself to pick up a copy of Blood Garlands...""-Zach George, MLIS (Simmons University)

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Travis D. Johnson lives in St. Augustine, Florida-the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the United States-where centuries of accumulated stories seep up through the ground.He's been writing horror since age four and saw his poetry launched into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery at eleven. His work draws from pre-war country blues, silent cinema, medieval romance, and the darker corners of American folklore.In 2025, he founded Frolic Press to publish uncanny literature and give new life to overlooked voices in weird fiction.As a member of Tale Tellers of St. Augustine, a folklore society and storytellers' guild, he performs traditional folktales at events throughout the region.

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