Andy Davidson holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Mississippi. His debut novel, In the Valley of the Sun, was nominated for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel, This Is Horror's Novel of the Year, and the 2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival's First Book Award. Born and raised in Arkansas, he now makes his home in Georgia with his wife and a bunch of cats.
*A Most Anticipated Book of 2020 at The Chicago Review of
Books, LitReactor, and Books in the Freezer "What if
I told you there was a gorgeously written novel that mixed Southern
Gothic a la Flannery O'Connor, backwoods noir, and the mythic
imagination of Clive Barker? Go read Andy Davidson's lush
nightmare, The Boatman's Daughter. It put an arrow through my head
and heart."
--Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the
World and A Head Full of Ghosts An inverted fairytale . . .
[Andy Davidson is] an extremely talented writer who goes beyond the
boundaries of genres to deliver a gripping tale.
--Mystery Tribune The remote Arkansas bayou is a swirling
kaleidoscope of murder, greed, and dark, ancient magic . . .
Davidson's captivating horror fable combines the visceral violence
of Cormac McCarthy with his own wholly original craftsmanship,
weaving rich, folkloric magic with the best elements of a gritty
Southern thriller. The book's lightning-fast pace doesn't come at
the expense of fully realized, flawed, and achingly human
characters. Ample bloodshed is offset by beautiful prose . . . A
stunning supernatural Southern Gothic.
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The Boatman's Daughter is
a beautifully written Gothic chiller that will draw you in and hold
you tight. Wild and wonderful--a sentence-by-sentence delight."
--Michael Koryta, author of How It Happened Davidson's latest
is another hauntingly lyrical story that draws readers in with
complicated characters and a foreboding setting. Davidson's style
is restrained, with a slow burn that explodes at the novel's
midpoint, making room for the plot to breathe and unravel toward
the satisfying conclusion. This horror novel can claim its rightful
place alongside new Southern Gothics like Jesmyn Ward's Sing,
Unburied, Sing (2017), Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone (2006),
and Wiley Cash's A Land More Kind Than Home (2012).
--Becky Spratford, Booklist The Boatman's Daughter is a
greasy, magical Southern Gothic fable. Davidson pens a vivid
backdrop for his colorful characters to come alive and draw the
reader into an eerie supernatural thriller.
--Sadie Hartman, Mother Horror "Andy Davidson's bone-cracking
Southern Gothic, The Boatman's Daughter, is a noir thriller
dipped in the dark mud of the bayou, packed with witches, demons,
and gods. I was entangled in the dense roots of the story and the
rich, aromatic prose from page one. A riveting, powerful, bloody
ride you'll never want to leave, despite the dangers within."
--Philip Fracassi, author of Behold the Void [Andy] Davidson
immerses the reader in ethereal horror in this macabre contemporary
thriller set in the swamps of the deep American South . . . With
fluid prose and nimble worldbuilding Davidson brings his eerie
swamps to life. Fans of the supernatural will savor the
slow-burning tension of this heady, atmospheric Southern
Gothic.
--Publishers Weekly "This is the second novel I've read by Andy
Davidson, which is to say that I have now visited two dark,
well-realized southern landscapes full of interesting antagonists
and cool set pieces. This author's greatest strength is place--he
takes you there. You can almost smell the flora in the marsh, feel
the planks of the rough-built structures under your bare feet. The
Boatman's Daughter is a supernatural cousin to Daniel Woodrell's
gritty Ozarks thrillers; a sensual wetlands fable rich in sensory
detail and replete with Slavic folklore."
--Christopher Buehlman, author of The Suicide Motor Club "The
Boatman's Daughter--a beautiful and brutal Southern Gothic that
enchants and horrifies and hits like a wrecking ball from its
opening pages--is fantastic in every sense of the word. Fans of
Lansdale, Piccirilli, and McCarthy will dig this wholeheartedly,
though the alchemy and magic here are Davidson's own and mark him
as a major voice in modern dark fiction."
--Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of Entropy in Bloom and
Skullcrack City
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