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Erica Waters is a lifelong Southerner who now lives in Salem, Massachusetts. She writes dark fantasy and horror for young adults. Her second novel, The River Has Teeth, won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel and was also an Indie Next pick and a Kirkus Best Young Adult Book of 2021. Erica’s other works include Ghost Wood Song, The Restless Dark, and All That Consumes Us. She is also a contributor to the bestselling folk horror anthology The Gathering Dark. You can visit her online at ericawaters.com.

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Erica Waters Ghost Wood Song is partially inspired by the traditional Appalachian ballad "Shady Grove," which has many modern interpretations. My favorite version …moreGhost Wood Song is partially inspired by the traditional Appalachian ballad "Shady Grove," which has many modern interpretations. My favorite version of it is by Doc Watson. My main character is named after the song, and the song plays a big role in the book overall.(less)
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I was inspired by my experience of being a first-generation college student and my love of gothic literature. The book is particularly influenced by Jane Eyre and Rebecca. (less)
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“There will always be men in the world who want to control and hurt and kill us. Men who drug us and drive us off roads and hit us with their fists. Men who take girls and make them their toys. Men who gain pleasure from our pain. […] They will walk through this world until it comes unraveled. They will keep on doing what they’ve been doing for thousands and thousands of years until the earth has had enough and ends us all. […] But today I refuse to fear them, not a single one. They have strength and cruelty and endless complicity. They walk tall and almost always win. But not here, not on the Bend, where owls that were once girls fly free. Not here, where magic rides up to meet my will. […] Here, we are witches and men are nothing. Here, the river has teeth.”
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“I scream until I am no longer a girl, no longer flesh and blood, but only sound and terror hurtling through the night.”
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“Bluegrass lyrics are almost always about death, loss, and unrequited love, but the music – the noise we make with out banjos and our fiddles – is joyful. The dead are always with us, even after their ghosts move on, but it's the life pulsing through our veins that makes the music.”
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