The Hounded Slave

A Southern Gothic Novella by Romer Shaw

In the sultry shadows of 1960s Mississippi, Hollis Lane returns to a land he tried to forget, only to find the ghosts of blood and memory waiting beneath every root and rooftop. A scholar of history and son of the Delta, Hollis is caught between the quiet ache of the past and the brutal clarity of the present-between the pull of his brother Carter and the fire of Louisa, a woman unafraid to challenge every lie the South was built upon.

As the cotton fields bloom and the hounds begin to howl, love becomes dangerous, silence turns deadly, and buried sins rise like smoke. What follows is a reckoning-of family, of race, of history itself.

Told in a voice both haunted and lyrical, The Hounded Slave is a Southern Gothic elegy about what it means to inherit shame, carry hope, and try-against every storm and scar-to stand.

About the Author:

Born in New Orleans, Romer Shaw is a historical fiction writer. He is considered a leader in the modern Southern Gothic Revival. Having lived, worked, and traveled extensively throughout the American Deep South and Latin America, his work primarily focuses on two areas: the Mississippi Delta in the 1960s, and the relationship between the United States and Latin America and the effect American Imperialism has had on those countries. He is deeply passionate about Anthropology and American-Southern History. His favorite backdrop for any novel is the Mississippi Delta, the area between Memphis and New Orleans.