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about Elizabeth Broadbent, author of the Southern Gothic novella Blood Cypress (Raw Dog Screaming Press), Southern Gothic collection Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories (Undertaker Books), and the novel Ninety-Eight Sabers (Undertaker Books); essayist and writer for Scary Mommy, The Washington Post, ADDitude Magazine, and Insider. ABOUT ME Elizabeth Broadbent (she/her) is the author of Blood Cypress (Raw Dog Screaming Press), Ninety-Eight Sabers (Undertaker Books) and Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories (Undertaker Books). Her speculative fiction has appeared with The Best of Penumbric , Haven Spec Magazine , If There's Anyone Left , Tales to Terrify , and The Black Beacon Book of Horror , among other places. During her long career as a journalist, her nonfiction appeared in places such as The Washington Post , Insider , Time, and ADDitude Magazine . She has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, BBC World News, NPR's All Things Considered , and Canadian National Public Radio. An exile from South Carolina swamp country, she lives in Richmond with her husband, four cats, three sons, two dogs, and a flock of crows. No, Really . . . About Me My path to fiction was a winding one. After my MFA at the University of South Carolina (minor in Southern lit), I became a journalist. My first viral essay, “A Mother’s White Privilege ,” which discusses white privilege in the wake of Michael Brown’s murder, was syndicated in media outlets across the country, including The Huffington Post, Scary Mommy, Yahoo News, MSNBC, and many others (August 2014). In its aftermath, I spoke to CNN , MSNBC, and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered (September 2014). Today, this article is used by anti-racism groups worldwide, including The Society of Friends, and the Unitarian Universalist Church; it’s been analyzed in several university courses, published in textbooks overseas, and offered as a speech choice for high school debate tournaments. The essay earned me a job writing for Scary Mommy at the height of its popularity. For eight years, I held a staff position writing about the intersections between parenting, mental health, feminism, politics, and pop culture. I was one of the site’s two most prolific staffwriters, with over 1,000 articles to my name, and I kept that audience by breaking down complex topics with sarcasm and humor. “What Normal Looks Like ” was discussed and syndicated in everything from The Huffington Post to small newspapers across America ; my essays about Brock Turner led to speaking engagements with CNN and Canadian National Public Radio. During Covid, I became the site’s leading vaccine expert, which required in-depth research; I interviewed everyone from Sandy Hook moms to Giselle Fetterman. My work on the Murdaugh trial was syndicated, including by Yahoo News, and I was the first national journalist to ask questions about the death of Murdaugh’s maid, Gloria Satterfield . During that time, I also freelanced with The Washington Post, The Huffington Post , Business Insider , ADDitude Magzine , and Time Magazine . Highlights include my essay about buying a house , which landed on the front page of the WaPo real estate section; an interview with a mother whose child needed a bone marrow transplant for Insider; two articles for ADDitude which made their top-25 articles of all time (available here and here ), more than any other journalist who was not a medical professional; and a live interview with BBC World News about the rise of artificial intelligence and its threat to human writers (February 2023). In 2022, technobros began buying up internet journalism venues, and I turned to South Gothic fiction, publishing Ink Vine (Undertaker Books, April 2024), which was a finalist book for both the Haunted Book Club awards and an Imajinn Award. Ninety-Eight Sabers , a full-length novel, was released in November of 2024 by Undertaker Books, and Blood Cypress , published by Raw Dog Screaming Press in April 2025, was praised by Publishers Weekly ; so far, the novella has earned top slots in several year-end reviews, and like Ink Vine , it reached the Bram Stoker Awards Recommended Reading List. Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories , a rerelease of Ink Vine along with a collection of my Southern Gothic short stories, came out in March of 2026. I review books for several outlets, including Cemetery Dance and NightTide Magazine , and also write nonfiction about Southern Gothic. My essays have appeared in NightTide, Reactor , Ginger Nuts of Horror, and Nightmare Magazine . While I still freelance for certain venues (including ADDitude Magazine— magnificent editor Anni Rodgers is stuck with me), I spend most of my days writing fiction and homeschooling my three sons. When I'm not writing, I like reading, painting DnD figures, crocheting, hiking, and attempting to cook. If you got this far, here's the link to my old school chain email quiz .

Blood Cypress, by Elizabeth Broadbent --- 2025, Raw Dog Screaming Press No one cares when Lila Carson’s ten-year-old brother Beau disappears. He can’t speak. He throws tantrums. He’s a useless Carson, one of those kids in a broken-shuttered house that lost its glory when his father died. When the sheriff and his good ol’ boy deputies show up to investigate, they eye up Lila and call her twin brother, Quentin, names. A closeted bisexual girl in the South, she’s terrified. Purchase at Raw Dog Screaming Press Purchase on Amazon Purchase at Barnes and Noble No one cares when Lila Carson’s ten-year-old brother Beau disappears. He can’t speak. He throws tantrums. He’s a useless Carson, one of those kids in a broken-shuttered house that lost its glory when his father died. When the sheriff and his good ol’ boy deputies show up to investigate, they eye up Lila and call her twin brother names. A closeted bisexual girl in the South, Lila's terrified. Lower Congaree recites it like an eleventh commandment: Don’t go in that swamp. But as the long night drags on, it’s clear Beau disappeared behind those ancient trees. The sheriff’s deputies refuse to go back there. Lila might not have a choice. Raw Dog Screaming Press, April 2025 "Can't Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction ," Reactor, March 2025 "Genre-Stretching Works of Fiction ," Publishers Weekly, April 2025 Praise for Blood Cypress Named the #1 novella of the year by Happy Goat Horror "Blood Cypress (Elizabeth Broadbent) is the perfect storm of sapphic horror, mystery, a fantastically complicated but strong protagonist, small-town bigotry, and a compelling inciting incident that is impossible to not care about. I adore this story, and this author’s work in general, because it’s also so emotionally engaging and interesting. For those reasons, and more (like the imagery, oh lordy, the imagery!) this had to be my favourite novella of 2025." “Broadbent brings this warped novella to a close with a series of stunning final twists—including a devastating reveal about who is narrating the story. This is coming-of-age fiction at its creepiest.” Publishers Weekly Read the full review "Elizabeth Broadbent doesn’t just waltz up to trauma—she stomps in with a lit cigarette dangling from her lip, a box of gasoline-soaked matches in one hand, and a middle finger raised in the other. By the time she’s done with Blood Cypress, the seventh gut-punch in the Selected Papers from the Consortium for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena series, you’re either sobbing into your beer, reeling like you’ve been slapped by a wet gator, or sniffing your bathroom tiles wondering if that mildew’s hiding your grandma’s pissed-off ghost." The Blog without A Face Read the full review “With echoes of Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Eliza Broadbent’s southern gothic, Blood Cypress, seethes with swamp-rot and small-town prejudice. Dark and lush and deeply, deeply disturbing, it’s an exquisite tale of grief and trauma, solidifying Broadbent’s place as a champion for the outsider. A revelation.” Lee Murray, five-time Bram Stoker Award®-winning author of Grotesque: Monster Stories “Broadbent’s storytelling is equal parts captivating and unnerving. Blood Cypress is a magnificently layered tale where gender and sexualty dynamics are intricately woven into a poignant southern gothic layered atop a devastating family tragedy. Her carefully crafted words grip you by the throat and squeeze.” L. Marie Wood, award-winning author of The Realm Trilogy and The Promise Keeper “Elizabeth Broadbent discovers a creek that connects directly to Michael McDowell’s Blackwater mythos, leading readers through this beautiful backwater novella. This missing child manhunt is steeped in so much southern gothic, it feels like Faulkner, O’Connor, and Sheperd have all joined the search party.” Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes “Mesmerizing! Broadbent weaves a tale about the pain of growing up ‘different’ and the desperation of a failing family legacy. Much like the swamp at its center, this story is filled with southern heat, twists and turns, and insidious monsters waiting to swallow you whole.”—Aimee Hardy, author of Pocket Full of Teeth “Like the dark swamp at its heart, this book melds Southern Gothic with folk horror in a delightful way. A bold, assured narrative voice that will lure readers into its fetid darkness.” Tim McGregor, author of Eynhallow

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Essays by writer and Southern Gothic author Elizabeth Broadbent, including selected work from Scary Mommy, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Insider, Time Magazine, and NPR's All Things Consider. Selected Journalism and Essays A Mother's White Privilege , Huffington Post, Scary Mommy, etc. currently used as an anti-racism teaching tool by The Anti-Defamation League , the Unitarian Universalist Church, Quakers, the Catholic Church, numerous universities (including Miami and Northwestern ), as well as international textbooks. It has also been used for speech competitions and high school classes. We Made the Biggest Purchase of Our Lives, Sight Unseen , The Washington Post Headlined the Sunday supplement on real estate My Breasts, My Choice: Why I'm Nursing My Three-Year-Old , Time Magazine I May Look Fine, But I Need My Service Dog With Me for Panic Attacks , The Washington Post The Talk: How Parents of All Backgrounds Tell Kids About the Police , NPR's All Things Considered Post Ferguson: Talk to Your Kids About Race and Class , CNN What Normal Looks Like , The Huffington Post We Should Never Pull Life-Saving Medication from a Child , ADDitude Magazine 15% Of Americans Believe In Q-Anon — WTF?! , Scary Mommy Alex Murdaugh Now Admits To Paying 'Suicide' Hit Man , Scary Mommy , Yahoo News Alex Gets Shot In Head, Resigns From Law Firm , Scary Mommy , Yahoo News The 'Cocaine Bear' Movie's A Go ... And Based On A Weird True Story , Scary Mommy Inattentive ADHD, According to a 12-Year-Old Boy , ADDitude Magzine Top-25 all time ADDitude Magazine articles 9 Mean Teacher Comments Every Student with ADHD Knows Too Well , ADDitude Magzine Top-25 all time ADDitude Magazine articles

Ink Vine: A Southern Gothic, Sapphic Novella, by Elizabeth Broadbent (Undertaker Books, 2024) Purchase at Undertaker Books Purchase on Amazon or read on KU Purchase at Barnes and Noble Stay the hell out of the swamp — the backwater town of Lower Congaree recites it like an eleventh commandment. Lower Congaree is a backwater of a backwater, a poverty-stricken South Carolina town where nail salons come and go, but the Marine recruitment center never closes. Swamp surrounds it, and strangeness stretches back as far as anyone can remember. For the first time, Undertaker Books has collected Elizabeth Broadbent’s intertwined Southern Gothic stories, including her linked novella, Ink Vine . Swamp witches and standing stones, battered mansions and shoeless patriarchs, strip clubs and roadside diners—Lower Congaree blossoms with the otherworldly, the bizarre, the outcast and the outside of time. Ink Vine “A stunning debut with a narrative voice so strong, you’ll feel the swamp breathing down your neck. Eerie and very moving.” —Tim McGregor, author of Eynhallow and Wasps in the Ice Cream When exotic dancer Emmy Joiner escapes to the swamp, she meets beautiful, long-legged Zara, the first girl she dares to kiss. But the small-town South hates a woman who dares to dance instead of plucking chickens for minimum wage. As Emmy’s life falls apart, her relationship with Zara grows more tangled and bizarre. Zara’s offering something beautiful. Its price may be more than Emmy’s willing to pay. Imadjinn Award Finalist, Best Horror Novel, 2025 Haunted Book Club Awards, Best Novella, 2024 Praise for Ink Vine and Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories "This is an excellent example of a writing style referred to as Southern Gothic, which blends many themes together that don’t always work well. Poverty and social order weaves like vines with horror and dark humours that sneak up on a reader. Choosing quotes for the review was especially difficult, because the language is beautiful throughout." —The Lesbian Review "You might find it odd that in a horror collection, I’ve used the words ‘lovely’ and ‘beautiful’ so often, but that’s the power of Elizabeth Broadbent’s writing. I don’t know if I’ve ever read another author whose work sinks its hooks into my heart so much. Her exploration and handling of certain themes is simply masterful and brings new angles and perspectives to the particular horrors she delves into. Easily one of the most skilled, yet underrated writers I’ve ever read, and I’ll never stop talking about her. Simply wonderful." --Happy Goat Horror "Broadbent’s prose has that nasty-sweet rhythm where a sentence can be tender, funny, and vile in the same breath. She’s great at close first-person heat, the kind that makes you feel sweat in your armpits and hear cicadas grinding their teeth. She also understands escalation. These stories don’t just “get spooky,” they get personal, then bodily, then spiritual, then irreversible. Even the shorter pieces have a clean spine and a sharp final shove. When she wants to go lyrical, she does, but she’s not precious about it. She’ll give you beauty, then immediately smear it with mud and blood, because that is the point." —The Blog Without a Face "Elizabeth Broadbent combines a steamy love story with important observations about desperation, fear, and acceptance. Ink Vine, with its elements of dark fantasy and botanical horror, reminded me of True Blood!" Christi Nogle, author of the Bram Stoker Award winning first novel Beulah "Ink Vine is a lush and deliciously queer Southern Gothic romance about desire and the things we will do to sate it. Broadbent's richly drawn characters and smart. evocative prose give new meaning to the phrase 'blossoming love.' Emerald's longing—for acceptance, for love, for something more—haunts every word and sets the stage for a beautiful narrative about acceptance, self-discovery, and the power of connection." Jolie Toomajin, editor of Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic " Ink Vine will draw you in and reward you with strange beauty, stark and gentle at once. Like a swamp. There are dangers here, but also great rewards, if one is brave enough. I, for one, am looking forward to reading more from Elizabeth Broadbent and warmly recommend this enthralling novella." Victoria Lilly, The Lesbian Review "Broadbent paints the words into a gorgeous setting where she places her broken characters within, a juxtaposition between a dying town and the vibrant but dangerous swamp she’s been warned about all her life. She knows this world well and the dark fantasy/horror that comes to life between the covers seethes with life, conflict, and dark threads that threaten to pull Emmy’s world into the depths. Recommended reading and a fine new author to watch." David Sims, Cemetery Dance

Ninety-Eight Sabers, Elizabeth Broadbent; Undertaker Books, 2024 The Trenholm clan helped found Lower Congaree, South Carolina. Their land is cursed. Their abusive patriarch has croaked. Only heirs who attend the funeral will inherit. Purchase at Undertaker Books Purchase on Amazon or read on KU Purchase at Barnes and Noble Family secrets. High strangeness. Reality TV. The Trenholm clan helped found Lower Congaree, South Carolina. Their land is cursed. Their abusive patriarch has croaked. Only heirs who attend the funeral will inherit. But when Truluck Trenholm suffered his eventually-fatal stroke, oldest son Ash turned the haunted plantation into an enormously successful reality show—with all the attendant ethical issues of profiting off its legacy. Forced to tolerate the intrusion of California producers, grip guys, and cameras, toting a ton of childhood trauma, Ash’s brother and cousins have plenty of animosity for each other, along with a strong aversion to the paranormal shenanigans of their childhood home. But when Truluck’s funeral goes pear-shaped and the cousins are cut out of his will, Hollywood producers offer the deal of a lifetime: they’ll turn the Trenholms into witchy Kardashians with a Southern drawl. If the cousins walk away, they’ll lose everything. But the farm’s high strangeness keeps getting stranger. Something’s happening on Cypress Bend. And filming might make it worse… Combining the literary tradition of William Faulkner, Michael McDowell, and Octavia Butler with the shimmered lunacy of John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Elizabeth Broadbent’s Ninety-Eight Sabers is a Southern Gothic novel about a family determined to stick together as history threatens to tear them apart. This is a book that asks how we live with the past—and how we accept our responsibility for it in the present. Undertaker Books, November 2024

A Southern Gothic writer, essayist, and book reviewer, Elizabeth Broadbent is the author of Blood Cypress (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2025), Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories (Undertaker Books, 2026), and Ninety-Eight Sabers (Undertaker Books, 2024). Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Insider, ADDitude Magazine, Scary Mommy, The Huffington Post, TODAY! Parents, and Time; she has been a guest on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and BBC World News. Elizabeth Broadbent Southern Gothic Essays Science Fiction Journalism Click books to purchase, read, and more Latest Essays: The H-Word: Snakes Beneath the Kudzu , Nightmare Magazine Review: The Curse of Hester Gardens , Cemetery Dance Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Elizabeth Broadbent on William Faulkner , Shortwave So Much Blood in the Earth, NightTide Magazine Five Southern Gothic Books About Generational Trauma You Probably Haven't Read, Reactor The Past is Never Dead: Southern Gothic and Child Abuse, NightTide Magazine We Don't Want a Cure, We Want Understanding, ADDitude Magazine

Selected horror essays from Southern Gothic author Elizabeth Broadbent, including those from Reactor, Nightmare Magazine, Crossroads Folk Horror, NightTide Magazine, and Cemetery Dance. Selected Horror Essays The H-Word: Snakes Beneath the Kudzu Nightmare Magazine Kudzu: The vine that ate the South. Lascivious and insatiable, kudzu gobbles land in lush, feral tanglings. It grows in red clay and sandy grit, in chalky kaelin and gluey mud. Kudzu will eat your dog if he sleeps too long. It’s a good metaphor for the savage tenacity of narrative. Like kudzu, narrative devours and consumes. Just as vine-swathed structures become hunched, unrecognizable shapes, narrative swallows and remakes what it attempts to delineate. Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Elizabeth Broadbent on William Faulkner Shortwave Magazine The Southerner might hate the face of his father, but he never forgets it ... I’m forced to figure my own literary inheritance like an adult groping through detritus of a ruined childhood. To discard those forebears is to refuse what makes me myself. How do you love your racist father? So Much Blood in This Earth: Southern Gothic and Generational Trauma NightTide Magazine Southern history is a blood-soaked horror of war and enslavement, death and despair. That horror leaked into our land. It remains, sure as soil and still inscribed upon it: in Richmond’s picturesque cobblestones, laid by the enslaved; and in Mississippi’s unfurling cotton fields, watered by sweat and grief. It lingers in postcard-pretty vistas of battlefield parks, their staid graves lined up like small, white teeth; in arrowheads plowed from fields or grubbed from muddy riverbanks. It glares from bronze monuments of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and rises defiant in Kehinde Wiley’s Rumors of War . Amid our moss-draped trees and white-columned houses, horror accuses us from bombed churches, from rope-scarred oaks, from sacred rivers dammed to build world-swallowing bombs. We Southerners can no more deny history than we can defy gravity. (Big thank you to editor Mo Moshaty for her hard work and stellar suggestions!) Five Southern Gothic Books about Generational Trauma You Probably Haven't Read Reactor Social obligation and an ex-boyfriend once landed me at a lineage society dinner in Charleston, South Carolina. The exact association doesn’t matter; pick one, and you’re probably right. Beneath stern portraits of Confederate generals with epic facial hair, white people ate rubbery chicken and celebrated the fictions they willed into history. Anyone with money and connections enough to join that particular society owed both to the blood and sweat of enslaved people. No one acknowledged it. And as I scanned the dining room of that vaunted Charleston club, I realized that every member of the waitstaff was Black. I kept my mouth shut as a server took my plate. I’m sorry, I wanted to say. I hope y’all spit in our food. At the turn of the twenty-first century, a hundred and thirty-years after the War ended, that roomful of white people continued to enact the crimes of their ancestors. It’s no wonder Southern literature lends itself to narratives about generational trauma. The Past is Never Dead: Southern Gothic and Child Abuse NightTide Magazine In the South, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past." It remains inscribed on our landscape. When my husband and I were first together, we would tell people, “We live in the first house up from the nearest corner where Nancy got hit by that drunk driver.” We meant Nancy Thurmond, Strom’s daughter, who was struck while crossing the street and died in the arms of the Democratic Lieutenant Governor. That accident had happened more than twenty years before Chris and I moved in. Why We Need More Queer Female Southern Gothic Horror Ginger Nuts of Horror The paradigm of womanhood offers two options. We can be virtuous daughters, wives, and mothers, or we can be whores. In few places is that contradiction as stark as the American South. It derives, in part, through our unironic, twin literary obsessions with Alexander Dumas 1 and Walter Scott—our forebears made the crucial mistake of taking The Three Musketeers and Waverley as stellar life advice, and we haven’t been quite right since. Night Country: A Dark, Powerful Feminine Mirror Ginger Nuts of Horror While the stick-labyrinth Carcosa in True Detective’s first season carries a hint of perverse womb, one that harbors death rather than life, the ice caves in Night Country might as well be a frozen birth canal. They’re the true essence of Night Country, that unknowable realm that swallows men whole. It’s here that the Tsalaal scientists exact their enviro-sexual crimes; it’s here that the cradle of life lies waiting in the guise of frozen microorganisms. Recent Book Reviews: The Curse of Hester Gardens, Tamika Thompson , Cemetery Dance Decomposition Book, Sara Van Os , Cemetery Dance The Night Ship, Alex Woodroe , Cemetery Dance ITCH! , Gemma Amor , Cemetery Dance Psychopomp and Circumstance, Eden Royce , NightTide Magazine The Pulse Remains , Rob Grimoire , Cemetery Dance Moonflow, Bitter Karella , Cemetery Dance Fever Dreams of a Parasite, Pedro Iniguez , Cemetery Dance

Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories, Elizabeth Broadbent; Undertaker Books, 2026 Stay the hell out of the swamp — the backwater town of Lower Congaree recites it like an eleventh commandment. Lower Congaree is a backwater of a backwater, a poverty-stricken South Carolina town where nail salons come and go, but the Marine recruitment center never closes. Swamp surrounds it, and strangeness stretches back as far as anyone can remember. Stay the hell out of the swamp — the backwater town of Lower Congaree recites it like an eleventh commandment. Lower Congaree is a backwater of a backwater, a poverty-stricken South Carolina town where nail salons come and go, but the Marine recruitment center never closes. Swamp surrounds it, and strangeness stretches back as far as anyone can remember. For the first time, Undertaker Books has collected Elizabeth Broadbent’s intertwined Southern Gothic stories, including her linked novella, Ink Vine. Swamp witches and standing stones, battered mansions and shoeless patriarchs, strip clubs and roadside diners—Lower Congaree blossoms with the otherworldly, the bizarre, the outcast and the outside of time. These are stories where the prose is as lush as the canopy beneath which Lower Congaree’s inhabitants walk. But the descriptions do not detract from the power of the stories. Empathy and affection is clear for those who are poor and ignored, for those who are othered. — The Horror Tree Read the full review here Broadbent's world lures you in with gentle tendrils of growth and fragrant flowers and only when you are in its viney grasp do you realize you are trapped in its thrall as the swamp burbles up its ghastly tales. --Kate Maruyama, author of Alterations, The Collective , and Bleak Houses With lyrical prose and haunting imagery that will chill you to your bones, Broadbent’s new collection weaves hypnotic tales of home and heartache, of family secrets and small town angst, where echoes of the past swirl seductively within the sinister clutches of the swamp itself, where all things here take root. Ink Vine & Other Swamp Stories is an excellent display of Southern gothic at its finest. —Candace Nola, author of Shadow Manor Ink Vine When exotic dancer Emmy Joiner escapes to the swamp, she meets beautiful, long-legged Zara, the first girl she dares to kiss. But the small-town South hates a woman who dares to dance instead of plucking chickens for minimum wage. As Emmy’s life falls apart, her relationship with Zara grows more tangled and bizarre. Zara’s offering something beautiful. Its price may be more than Emmy’s willing to pay. A stunning debut with a narrative voice so strong, you’ll feel the swamp breathing down your neck. Eerie and very moving. —Tim McGregor, author of Eynhallow and Wasps in the Ice Cream March 2026 from Undertaker Books Click image to preorder

short stories by Southern Gothic author Elizabeth Broadbent, including both her interconnected Southern Gothic shorts (recently collected in Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories) and her science fiction Science Fiction click to buy or read Neon Bois and Dream Baes (three story arc published in Hyphen Punk) Blue Raspberry The Doctor's Boy Spaceboi In Case of Emergency A Map like Constellations Atop Dead Trees Until I Return to the Earth that Made Me, Penumbric Best of Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine vol vii: June 2k23 to April 2k24 An Incident in Concourse C , Your Flight Has Been Cancelled Southern Gothic click to buy or read A Mouthful of Roses , Ghostlight: The Magazine of Terror Folded in Light , Haven Spec Questions a Man Ought Not to Ask , Black Beacon Book of Horror Babylon Burning , Judicial Homicide: Tales of Executions A Living Pentecost , If There's Anyone Left, Vol. 4 For Thine is the Kingdom , Tales to Terrify, episode 538

An old school email chain quiz about Southern Gothic author, essayist, and book reviewer Elizabeth Broadbent Old School Chain Email Quiz Name : Elizabeth Broadbent Nickname : Eliza Do you like blue cheese : on salads? Do you own a weapon : anyone who's seen my insta has seen the swords in the background Favorite flavor of Kool-Aid : red, always red Opinion on hot dogs : split-grilled only, boiling is for suckers Favorite Christmas movie : Home Alone Can you do push-ups? yes Favorite piece of jewelry: my sapphire engagement ring Favorite quote: No passion, no point OR Living well is the best revenge Three thoughts at this exact moment: This really feels like 1999; I hope my crows have enough peanuts; are my kids actually doing their school upstairs? Favorite place to be: Do not ask Southern Gothic authors complicated questions like this Where would you like to go: Tunisia or Morocco Do you own slippers: Not til I moved to Virginia, which is frozen in the winter What color shirt are you wearing rn: gray. It has pineapples on it Can you whistle: I whistle at the crows every morning Favorite color: green Would you like to be a pirate: fictional pirate or actual pirate? The answer differs What songs do you sing in the shower? Everything What's in your pockets? So used to having no pockets that nothing Last thing that made you laugh: my husband making fun of the cat sulking Worst injury you had as a child: a horse kicking me in the stomach Do you love where you live: Stop it How many TVs do you have? would happily live without one Who's your loudest friend? I'm too old to call people out How many dogs do you have? my own and my husband's Sumter County dog goblin Cats? Two Fredricksburg Dumpster Gremlins and two Chesterfield Trash Tabbies Does someone have a crush on you? I like to think my husband does What is your favorite book? Tie between Absalom, Absalom! and Moby-Dick What is your favorite candy? black licorice, this is a contentious choice What song do you want played at your funeral? If I was really mean, I'd say Blackstar

Books by Southern Gothic author Elizabeth Broadbent, including Blood Cypress (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2025), Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories (Undertaker Books, 2026), and Ninety-Eight Sabers (Undertaker Books, 2024). Click on a book to learn more Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories Undertaker Books Blood Cypress Raw Dog Screaming Press Ninety-Eight Sabers Undertaker Books Undertaker Books March 9, 2026