The Devil's Done Come Back Book Release and Signing

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Join Ed Southern, Mark Powell, and Zack Vernon at Huzzah Books as they read from and discuss North Carolina's newest collection of ghost stories: The Devil's Done Come Back. Reception at 6:00pm, reading at 7:00pm!

Fifteen of North Carolina’s finest writers reimagine and reclaim the ghosts who have haunted all corners of the state.

North Carolina ain’t what it once was: forests and fields have given way to suburbs and vacation homes, textile mills to high tech, tobacco farms to tourism. That doesn’t mean, though, that the ghosts of the Old North State have gone away.

In this anthology, readers might glimpse some of the ghostly apparitions, headless fiends, and creepy hollers they heard about around their childhood campfires. Now, fifteen of the state’s finest contemporary prose writers and poets have reimagined these stories—bringing us fresh tales that are bound to scare the living daylights out of us all over again.

Contributors include Michele Tracy Berger on the ghosts of the Great Dismal Swamp, Wiley Cash (and his daughters) on the Maco Light, Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle on the Raven Mockers, Tyree Daye on family hauntings, Jeremy B. Jones on the phantasms of Chimney Rock, Ed Southern on the Jack Tales and the Devil’s Tramping Ground, Ross White on the Little Red Man of Old Salem, and many more.

The Devil’s Done Come Back reclaims these old ghost tales as living stories, told and retold to frighten and delight.

Ed Southern is the author of Fight Songs: A Story of Love and Sports in a Complicated South, The Jamestown Adventure, Voices of the American Revolution in the Carolinas, and the short-story collection Parlous Angels. His work has appeared in South Writ Large, The Bitter Southerner, the North Carolina Literary Review, the Asheville Poetry Review, StorySouth, and elsewhere. Since 2008, he has been the executive director of the North Carolina Writers’ Network. He lives in Winston-Salem.

Mark Powell is the author of nine novels, including Small Treasons—a SIBA Okra Pick, and a Southern Living Best Book of the Year—and Lioness. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Breadloaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences, and twice from the Fulbright Foundation to Slovakia and Romania. He directs the creative writing program at Appalachian State University.

Zackary Vernon is an associate professor of English at Appalachian State University. His work has appeared in a range of magazines and journals, including The Bitter Southerner, Carolina Quarterly, and Southern Cultures, and he has received both the Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize and the Randall Kenan Prize from the North Carolina Literary Review. His debut novel Our Bodies Electric was published in 2024.