{"product_id":"hellions-stories-paperback","title":"Hellions: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe Wilds\u003c\/em\u003e comes an electric story collection that blends folklore, fairy tales, Southern Gothic, and horror, reveling in the collision of the familiar with the wildly surreal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In a plague-stricken medieval convent, a nun works on a forbidden mystic manuscript, pining for Christ's love. During a long, muggy July in rural South Carolina, an adolescent girl finds unexpected power as her family obsesses over the horror film \u003cem\u003eThe Exorcist\u003c\/em\u003e. On the outskirts of a Southern college town, a young woman resists the tyranny of a shape-shifting older professor as she develops her own sorceress skills. And at a feminist art colony in the North Carolina mountains, a group of mothers contends with the supernatural talents their children have picked up from a pair of mysterious orphans who live in the woods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith exuberance, ferocity, and astounding imagination, Julia Elliott's \u003cem\u003eHellions\u003c\/em\u003e jumps from the occult to the comic, from the horrific to the wondrous, presenting earthbound characters who long for the otherworldly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103138779359,"sku":"9781963108064","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/jcauyhA5Ug9781963108064.webp?v=1781090361","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/hellions-stories-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}