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Where Dark Things Rise

Where Dark Things Rise

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“Magical realism and small-town horror intertwine…[and] hums with a satisfying mix of humanity and creepiness. Where Dark Things Rise is ultimately about acceptance, family (both blood and found), and the power of choice. Fans who like some heart in their horror will find plenty of it beating here.” - Publisher’s Weekly

Where Dark Things Rise by Andrew K. Clark

Sixteen-year-old Mina is frustrated by Daddy’s drinking, her mom’s fanatical religious beliefs, and growing up poor in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Most of her teachers assume she won’t amount to much despite her 4.0 GPA, and the country club guys think she’s easy prey. But they don’t know Mina’s dark secret: She can control a magical force of supernatural creatures known as the Shadow Faces. 

 Mina doesn’t want powers. All she wants to do is escape the trailer park for a leafy college campus far away. But when her crush, Gabe, is stalked by a shapeshifting preacher/wolf, Mina learns to use her powers to protect him. Mina soon discovers the same preacher is trafficking teens for a mystical brothel and has kidnapped her best friend, Erin, after a failed attempt at conversion therapy. Can Mina use the Shadow Faces to save Erin and the other kids without losing her chance at a normal life?

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Author Andrew K. Clark

Andrew K. Clark is a writer from Western North Carolina where his people settled before the Revolutionary War. His debut novel, Where Dark Things Grow (Cowboy Jamboree Press) was  shortlisted for the Wade Manly Wellman Award, winner of an IPPY from the Independent Book Publisher’s Awards, a Firebird Book Award, and a Literary Global Book Award. The sequel, Where Dark Things Rise, was published by Quill & Crow Publishing House in September of 2025. His poetry collection, Jesus in the Trailer was published by Main Street Rag Press. His work has appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, UCLA’s Out of Anonymity, Appalachian Review, Rappahannock Review, The Wrath Bearing Tree, and many other journals. He received his MFA from Converse College. Connect with him at andrewkclark.com.

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Paulette Kennedy
Evocative Appalachian Gothic

A terror-spiked thrill ride of a novel that leaves room for tender moments of raw beauty and bittersweet nostalgia. Andrew K. Clark examines the nature of good and evil, and how closely they intertwine as a young woman with hidden powers confronts the persistent, returning darkness in her mountain town. Settle in and get comfortable, because once this story takes hold, it doesn't let go.

Picking up decades after the events in the first book in Clark's series, Where Dark Things Grow, young Gabe lives with his grandparents, Leo and Lilyfax, after being orphaned in a tragic accident. But it's his classmate and crush, Mina, who forms the main point-of-view perspective in the novel. Bullied by her peers and burdened by her troublesome, impoverished upbringing with a daddy who drinks too much and a mother addicted to religion, Mina longs to build a new life far afield from Asheville. But she's also hiding a dark secret--she has magic running through her veins, and can call forth an uncanny force of supernatural creatures called the Shadow Faces.

When her best friend, Erin, disappears after attending a truly horrifying Christian conversion therapy camp, Mina and Gabe must work together to rescue Erin from the clutches of a sinister preacher with malevolent intentions. While reading Where Dark Things Grow first will certainly enhance the enjoyment of this novel, and I recommend doing so, readers will still be able to track the story and characters without any issues if this is their introduction to Clark's work. I especially loved all the 1980s callbacks--this is a great book for Gen X-ers, and one that anyone who grew up on the fringes and felt like an outsider will appreciate.

Religious trauma, generational curses, folk horror, and themes of found family create a compelling Appalachian Gothic narrative shot through with magic and touches of surrealism. Clark's characters bear their bruises and broken hearts with ennobling pride and a fierce, poetic grace. Where Dark Things Rise mesmerizes completely.

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Wendy Brown
Make it a movie!

I really loved all the characters! The love stories with the mystical elements were a perfect combination. I kept thinking how this book would be a great movie, because the imagery was so cool!