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Spook Lights II: Southern Gothic Horror Kindle Edition

by Eden Royce (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
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Y’all gather round for thirteen more tales of Southern Gothic horror:

Boys find evil in their favorite sweet treat, a perfume shop that makes more than scents, a hurricane carries a mother’s vengeance, a conjure woman lies dying, unable to name a successor…

This is Gothic horror Southern style—shadowy rice fields, creatures that assume humanity at will—where even the most damaged and delicate have their power.


Spook Lights II takes us again South with stories that are graceful in the telling, and beautifully edgy in their details. Humans and haints traverse historic land in search of magic and revenge, finding salvation and justice in unexpected ways; each tale unwinds magnificently in Royce’s hands.
—Linda D. Addison, award-winning author of “How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend”


“Eden Royce’s collection of Southern Gothic fiction is an elegant and haunting read. Her stories filled with the kind of quiet chills born of things glimpsed mostly from the corner of the eye. From the genius of ‘To-Do List’ (just try to forget this tale once you reach its ending!) to the landscape she has created in the house of secrets known as Azaleas Hall, in Spook Lights 2 Ms. Royce has created an experience—and one of those favorite books likely to be enjoyed over and over again.”

—Gregory L. Norris, Tales From the Robot Graveyard
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01NBAB91Y
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (January 20, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 20, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3101 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 168 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 37 ratings

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Eden Royce

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Eden Royce is a writer from Charleston, South Carolina. She is a Shirley Jackson Award finalist for her short fiction, which has appeared in various print and online magazines. Her debut middle grade novel, ROOT MAGIC is a Walter Award honoree, a Nebula Award finalist, and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner for outstanding children’s literature.

She loves tea, coffee, used bookstores, and roller skating – not always in that order. Find more by visiting linktr.ee/edenroyce.

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Southerner Writing About The South Is True Music To My Ears
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2022
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A person born and raised in the South knows when a fellow Southerner wrote the book being read. Both of Ms. Royce’s books of short stories did an outstanding job of using the correct verbiage and context to take me back to evenings outside in the summer telling stories about voodoo, hoodoo and the people we were told who practiced them and raised the same nervous excitement I felt then. Being one of the white kids allowed to sit in on these sessions was a unique experience which Ms. Royce took me back to. Reading this put me in the same frame of mind as when I read Malcolm McDowell and that is the highest praise I can give a Southern gothic horror writer. I don’t know if a yankee can truly appreciate the pictures she and McDowell paint with their words but please read it and see. Oh, if you choose to read it as fiction that is up to you. I was told many years ago from good sources that some of what you will read may not be as fictitious as you want.
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ConstanceB
4.0 out of 5 stars A worthy follow up!
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2017
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A worthy follow up. I think Chilly Bears was my favorite.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the first
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2017
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I loved the first volume, but this one really set a tone for more than just a horror collection. I always read the sections in the front of the book, and when I read the Introduction, I knew it was going to be filled with grand stories that were more than just horror, it was about the human condition and the monsters within. I read each story twice, but I really found myself connected with "Grandmother's Bed". The words stuck with me. “I’ve seen our fall, Gran, and it will be because we lose you. I can’t let that happen yet. To be honest, I’m not ready. None of us is.” Highly recommended collection. Read it more than once.
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chris pederson
5.0 out of 5 stars Great short stories
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2022
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I read this author’s first collection on a recommendation from my horror book club and enjoyed it so much I bought the second collection!
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Katara's Cafe
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2017
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Another book of horror tales by Eden Royce! What I love about this are stories,and powers that one doesn't usually read,hear or know about in horror or paranormal but it is part of American history!! Keep up the good work Eden!!
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word_smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2017
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Good to read
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Sandy
5.0 out of 5 stars A Dark, Haunting, Beautiful and Chilling Collection!
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2017
I'm an Eden Royce addict! I never discovered Southern Gothic Horror till I came across Ms Royce's work. Since reading Spook Lights, I've been waiting impatiently for a follow up by Ms Royce and Spook Lights 2 has not disappointed. I won't be a story spoiler except to say that the 13 (unlucky 13) stories that make up this collection, each bring their individual unease and chill. Some will leave you wishing for a different ending while others will make you wish they'll never end. As always, Ms Royce has written an elegant prose that gives her work its distinctive stamp.

I'll let you discover your favourite story/stories in this beautiful collection. As for me, I had two favourites, Grandmother's Bed and Basque of the Red Death. Grandmother's Bed had me chuckling and gasping in phases and the end was definitely unexpected. Basque of the Red Death was Ms Royce's take on the famous Allan Poe tale, Masque of the Red Death. Perhaps, it should have been titled, Basque of the Black Death since the colour that brought death was black and the person that brewed the macabre magic was a black witch. You'ill love the same decadence of the rich, the oppression of the weak and just retribution, which were themes in Allan Poe's story but with a very different and distinct twist in Ms Royce's story, which in my humble opinion, elevates it to the realm of a true modern classic!

If you haven't read Spoo k Lights 2,then you're missing out on true bliss!
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5.0 out of 5 stars I'm starting to love this southern gothic mythology
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2017
Eden Royce never fails to surprise me. I'm starting to love this southern gothic mythology. I'm sad I finished my two books, and now I don't have any interesting book to look forward to, but either way it was a fun scary experience.

Basque of the Red Death
- I was mesmerized by this short story, because I didn’t really get what was going on, until the very end, and all I was left with was a grotesque macabre feeling that something happened, but I really didn’t know what, so my mind would race with different thoughts, one scarier than the other.

To Do List- I personally love to do lists. That’s why this was an interesting read for me. The horror built up slowly, until the very end, where you realized everything. I was doing fine, until the last line. Don’t even think of letting this story in half. Read it until the very end!

Grandmother’s Bed- This story is mentioned in all the reviews I’ve read, and I finally know why. Again, the author has a way of making a fairly normal story get scarier and scarier as I read, until the very end, where there is the big reveal, and it is shocking and disgusting too.
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