Hellions: Stories

PRE-ORDER FOR APRIL 15, 2025

Hellions: Stories – A Daring Blend of Southern Gothic, Horror, and Feminist Folklore

🔥 From acclaimed author Julia Elliott (The Wilds) comes Hellions, a fierce and imaginative collection of short stories that merges Southern Gothic, folklore, feminist horror, and the surreal into a literary experience that’s as visceral as it is visionary.

Dark Magic, Forbidden Desires, and the Supernatural South

In this bold and genre-defying collection, women confront the eerie, the divine, and the monstrous across strikingly original settings:
🕯️ A plague-ridden medieval convent where a nun secretly pens mystical writings
🎥 A South Carolina summer obsessed with The Exorcist, where a teen girl discovers strange power
🧙‍♀️ A college town where a young woman resists a shape-shifting professor’s control
🌲 A feminist art colony disrupted by children with supernatural gifts and feral origins

With echoes of Angela Carter, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jeff VanderMeer, Hellions revels in the wild collision between the mundane and the magical, giving voice to earthbound characters who yearn for the otherworldly.

📚 Perfect for fans of dark fairy tales, Southern horror, and feminist speculative fiction, this collection is a stunning testament to Julia Elliott’s razor-sharp prose and boundless imagination.