These Bones
These Bones
“Chenault’s short but powerful gothic work blends the best elements of folklore, horror, the blues, and archival history in resonant and lyrical prose.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
In a neighborhood known as the Bramble Patch, the Lyons family endures despite poverty, racism, and the ghoulish appetites of an underworld kingpin called the Barghest. As the years pass and the neighborhood falls into decay, along with the town that surrounds it, what’s left of the Bramble Patch will learn the saying is true: These bones are gonna rise again.
A Foreword INDIES Award Gold Winner for Literary Fiction
Praise for These Bones
“[These Bones] combines American history—the real and the imagined—with the beautiful and the horrific in a unique and creative way.”
— Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger
“From beginning to end, These Bones is a sheer pleasure.”
—Stacy D. Flood, author of The Salt Fields
“Utterly original. It's a gut punch.”
—Alana Haley, Nicola's Books
“Magical and poetic, These Bones possesses the brutality of the Southern gothic genre, the poesy of Jacqueline Bishop’s The River’s Song, and the elegant poesy of David Chariandy’s Soucouyant.”
—Nicole Yurcaba for Sage Cigarettes
