These Dreaming Hills: Dark and Wondrous Tales from Appalachia is an anthology of twelve speculative fiction stories that explores Appalachia through horror, fantasy, science fiction, folklore, magical realism, and the uncanny, edited by Noah Ashley Blooms.
Bringing together both new and previously published work, the collection moves through Appalachian landscapes and communities that resist easy definition. Its writers imagine strange transformations, impossible geographies, inherited powers, ecological upheaval, and encounters with forces both ancient and new. Throughout, the familiar and fantastic intertwine, revealing a region shaped by memory, change, and contradiction. 202 pages.
Publishing Oct. 13, 2026. Books ship that week.
Alisa Alering, Nathan Balingrud, Lesly-Marie Buer, Rachel Dockal, Marina Favila, Amanda Gaines, Elizabeth Kilcoyne, Jesse Koehler, C. Christopher Mullins, Christopher Rowe, Kelly Ward, Rod A. White
These Dreaming Hills: Dark and Wondrous Tales from Appalachia is an anthology of twelve speculative fiction stories that explores Appalachia through horror, fantasy, science fiction, folklore, magical realism, and the uncanny, edited by Noah Ashley Blooms.
Bringing together both new and previously published work, the collection moves through Appalachian landscapes and communities that resist easy definition. Its writers imagine strange transformations, impossible geographies, inherited powers, ecological upheaval, and encounters with forces both ancient and new. Throughout, the familiar and fantastic intertwine, revealing a region shaped by memory, change, and contradiction. 202 pages.
Publishing Oct. 13, 2026. Books ship that week.
Alisa Alering, Nathan Balingrud, Lesly-Marie Buer, Rachel Dockal, Marina Favila, Amanda Gaines, Elizabeth Kilcoyne, Jesse Koehler, C. Christopher Mullins, Christopher Rowe, Kelly Ward, Rod A. White
