Deliverance collides with To Kill A Mockingbird!
In the long and jagged shadow of Riddle Top lies a darkling mountain world—a world of unholy mirth and madness, of gods and demons you never knew existed. Hitch a wild-ass ride with two runaway teens-the runty but tough preacher's girl Tizzy Polk and her punk boyfriend Matthew. They might think they are Bonnie and Clyde, but they might also race headlong into an evil far greater than their own. They may come to see things darkly different and seldom seen on that bewitched mountain known below as Riddle Top.
Take care, folks say in story and song. Watch your step. And beware up there where the wind doth howl like the hellhound electric. Up there, where Tizzy and Matthew come knocking on a strange door. For nobody knows what awaits once you've disturbed your disturbing host. Your hands are in his hands now.
And the scariest thing of all? He's got all the time in this world.
Stark, poetic, haunting: Wicked Temper unfolds like a waking fever.
"Thornhorn, where the hell have you been?" ~ William Peter Blatty (author of The Exorcist)
"One of the South's wildest new voices." ~ The Oxford American Magazine
"An instant Southern classic ... Wicked Temper is not good. It's great. Great may not even be an effusive enough word. It's a classic in the vein of William Faulkner, Harper Lee, Cormac McCarthy, and Erskine Caldwell. Yet, it is a much darker voice all its own. There's an underlying deep moan of creepiness throughout this story that lets you feel the soaring trek of ruin the main characters Tizzy and Matthew are on. They set out on a life of crime to escape their dismal childhoods only to fall into the hands of a charismatic backwoods deviant. This book deserves to be read and shared for generations to come."
