Eden Royce Books in Order

Southern Gothic stories bring unsettling encounters into familiar communities. A witchdoctor’s niece reveals a life-changing secret, while an investigator’s flawless confession record hints at darker possibilities in tales rooted in the atmosphere of the American South.

Thirteen Southern Gothic stories turn ordinary pleasures and family ties into sources of dread. Evil lurks in sweets, a perfume shop offers more than fragrance, and a dying conjure woman struggles to name a successor.

In 1963 South Carolina, eleven-year-old twins Jez and Jay begin learning their family's inherited rootwork from their uncle. Grief, school integration, and harassment by a police deputy complicate their introduction to Gullah traditions and folk magic.

Sent to an unfamiliar great-grandmother after her grandmother falls ill, Del discovers a school for real conjure magic. Learning her family’s hidden traditions also reveals a shadowy presence on the island that may explain their secrets.

Black Southern speculative stories draw on Gullah Geechee traditions, hoodoo, and haunted histories. Women waking the dead, prisoners requesting impossible meals, and witches reckoning with loss explore grief, injustice, and power across the boundary between worlds.

After his mother dies, Roddie moves with his aunt into their decaying ancestral home in South Carolina. Reconnecting with family hoodoo traditions exposes secrets his mother concealed and a supernatural presence reaching out from the house.

Phee defies her controlling mother to arrange an estranged aunt’s funeral in Reconstruction-era New Charleston. Traveling alone to the unsettling family home, she encounters visions in reflective surfaces and secrets that cross the boundary of death.