Crossroads : Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic

rom Poe to Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor to Alice Hoffman, there is a long tradition of Southern writing that tests the borders of reality. Noted authors Cox and Duncan present eighteen fabulous original stories of the strange, the unseen, the magical American South by some of the most brilliantly talented Southern writers of our time. From darkly imagined, powerful tales by Lynn Pitts, Bret Lott, Daniel Wallace, Don Webb, Brad Watson, and Kalamu ya Salaam, to the deeply affecting and sensual 'A Plate of Mojo' by Honore Fanonne Jeffers, to atmospheric works by Richard Butner, James L. Cambias, and Jack McDevitt, to wildly funny, piquant stories by Scott Edelman, and Michael Swanwick, this is new fiction to delight readers with a taste for the different. With wonderful reprinted stories by Fred Chappell, John Kessel, Andy Duncan, Michael Bishop, Sena Jeter Naslund and others, Crossroads is a place to find great modern Southern magic realism, modern fabulism, and other remarkably entertaining fiction.

F. Brett Cox is the author of many powerful works of literary fiction. A Southerner by birth, he currently lives in Vermont.

Andy Duncan has won the World Fantasy Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Award. His first story collection is Beluthahatchie and Other Stories. He lives near Tuscaloosa, Alabama.