{"title":"Eden Royce","description":"Eden Royce is a writer from Charleston, South Carolina now living in Southeast England. She's a Shirley Jackson Award winner and a Bram Stoker Award nominee for her adult fiction, which has appeared in a variety of print and online publications. Her books for young readers have won multiple awards, including the Ignyte, the Bram Stoker, and the Walter Dean Myers Honor.","products":[{"product_id":"psychopomp-circumstance-hardcover","title":"Psychopomp \u0026 Circumstance - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShirley Jackson Award-winning author Eden Royce pens a Southern Gothic historical fantasy story of a contentious funeral.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A tale of loss and hope and how the present can give way to new futures.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhee St. Margaret is a daughter of the Reconstruction, born to a family of free Black business owners in New Charleston. Coddled to within an inch of her life by a mother who refuses to let her daughter live a life other than the one she dictates, Phee yearns to demonstrate she's capable of more than simply marrying well. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen word arrives that her Aunt Cleo, long estranged from the family, has passed away, Phee risks her mother's wrath to step up and accept the role of pomp--the highly honored duty of planning the funeral service. Traveling alone to the town of Horizon and her aunt's unsettling home, Phee soon discovers that visions and shadows beckon from every reflective surface, and that some secrets transcend the borders of life and death.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102551445727,"sku":"9781250330963","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/javnRBUqeb9781250330963.webp?v=1781083471"},{"product_id":"hollow-tongue-paperback","title":"Hollow Tongue - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a major accident leaves her in a dire financial situation, Maxine Forest returns to live in her childhood home. The empty husk holds only the memories of her father's abuse and her mother's reticence to leave him: her parents are nowhere to be found. The cocoon of her past remains unchanged, yet wrapped in the ghostly remnants of her mother's whispered insistence that things could change. Escaping the sins of her parents should be easy enough for Max, but those sins are intrinsic to her genetic make-up, so escape is impossible-succumbing, and metamorphosis, are inevitable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...equal parts beautiful and grotesque, with prose so alive it practically leaps off the page. Hauntings both familial and societal are deftly interwoven in this stylish and atmospheric Southern Gothic that feels truly contemporary-and the mystery behind safe box 236 will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the story's terrifying and shocking conclusion.\" -Catherine Yu, author of \u003cem\u003eDirewood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Eden's voice from the very start of \u003cem\u003eHollow Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e captivates you and does not let go until the end. This story moved in directions I didn't anticipate. I want more of this in horror!\" -V. Castro, author of Bram Stoker-nominated\u003cem\u003e The Queen of the Cicadas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this transformative novella, Royce deftly explores what it means to revisit childhood trauma from an adult perspective. With an arresting voice, stunning prose, and atmosphere thick enough to taste, \u003cem\u003eHollow Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e is Southern Gothic at its finest!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Kelsea Yu, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of \u003cem\u003eBound Feet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...revolutionizes the haunted house genre by embedding beating hearts into its walls. Royce balances memory, trauma, guilt, morality and immediate danger with a touch as delicate as a butterfly's wing.\" -Suzan Palumbo, author of \u003cem\u003eSkin Thief: Stories\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCountess\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104488558815,"sku":"9781947879690","price":15.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/sni1EsqsJp9781947879690.webp?v=1781108421"},{"product_id":"who-lost-i-found-stories-paperback","title":"Who Lost, I Found: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho Lost, I Found is a collection of Black Southern speculative tales from author Eden Royce, who weaves together subgenres like a sweetgrass basket: Southern Gothic, weird fiction, dark fantasy, and folk horror. All inspired by her Gullah Geechee heritage and its cautionary stories, and the hoodoo that runs throughout, whether everyone acknowledges it or not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn old woman can wake the dead, for a time, bringing families peace when they've been denied justice. An elder on death row chooses her last meal, and it isn't on the menu. A witch learns the real reason behind her ex-husband's death and decides to do a little hexing of her own. A girl gets more than she bargains for when she sneaks into a room at a historic property . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are stories written like the South itself: beautiful, dangerous, haunting. Giving the South its due in speculative fiction for reaching further than many realize and for leaving an indelible stain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104805097695,"sku":"9781940372686","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/lFwpaOkQwk9781940372686.webp?v=1781111355"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/eden-royce.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}