William R. Eakin…
“…takes the words, the rhythms, the heat, the mud, the cicadas and the kudzu of the south and turns them into stories that touch your heart while messing with your brain stem and possibly tampering with your DNA. A truly original and unique voice.” - Shawna McCarthy, Realms of Fantasy
Welcome to Redgunk is now available through Lethe Press!
Photo credit: Dylan Eakin
“....poetic and unusual....”
— Publisher’s Weekly
“Eloquent and witty, thoughtful and even heart-rending. . . . Every time I’ve read a Redgunk story recently, I’ve come away thinking the most recent was better than what I had seen before. I’m coming to realize that it’s not a question of better; each one has been good on its own. . . .Bill Eakin is a brilliant storyteller."
—Kim Mohan, Amazing Stories
"Redgunk is simultaneously a place of prosaic horror and impossible beauty...author William R. Eakin provides readers with plenty of swamp gas and a piercing view into the human soul."
- A. M. Dellamonica, Science Fiction Weekly
Welcome to Redgunk
Forget Arkham and Dogpatch, Yoknapatawpha County and Hooterville, forget what guidebooks might allege, because the weirdest town to be found in the Western Hemisphere is Redgunk, Mississippi. For over twenty years, author William Eakin has been spinning tales of this backwater place, where strange encounters are more than local gossip and the kudzu hides all manner of creatures and adventures. These stories were first published in such magazines as Realms of Fantasy, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Epiphany: A Journal of Literature, Amazing Stories, Science Fiction Age, New Writings in the Fantastic, Holy Horrors, Albedo One, Black October Magazine, SciFiction, the Year’s Best Fantasy, Age of Wonder, and others.
Cover art by Daniel Bitton, cover design by Inkspiral, author drawing and map by Dylan Eakin
Hardcover with book jacket, 610 pages
Map of Redgunk, by Dylan Eakin, featured in WELCOME TO REDGUNK
Readings and Performance
The Secret of the Mummy’s Brain
(Excerpt)
Read by William R. Eakin
The Personals
NYC Reading of new musical by composer/lyricist Sam Balzac, based on William R. Eakin’s Plain Female Seeks Nice Guy
Why I Blame the Beer-Goozers
(Excerpt)
Read by William R. Eakin
Live Unraveled #95 Interview
With Brian Wilson
Roadkill Fred
(Excerpt)
Read by WIlliam R. Eakin
Welcome to Redgunk: Like Dreams of Eagle Fire Audio Book
A whole story excerpted from Welcome to Redgunk
Read by Hannah Eakin