Where Dark Things Grow

By: Andrew K. Clark

Narrated by: E.B. Barkley

Fifteen-year-old Leo is watching the world crumble. His father is missing, and his mother is slipping into madness as she cares for Leo, his sick sister Goldfish, and two useless brothers. Relatives are no help, and the church folk have turned their backs in the midst of the Great Depression.

When he discovers an enchanted wulver from ancient folklore that will do his bidding, he decides to settle old scores. Revenge is sweet, but Leo soon learns he can't control what he's unleashed. It takes his spitfire best friend Lilyfax to help Leo overcome his anger and try to escape the wulver's evil. As they search for his father, Leo, Lilyfax, and friends are pursued by dark forces and pulled into a rescue effort to find and save trafficked girls rumored to have been taken by the mysterious Blue Man.

Featuring elements of horror, folklore, and magical realism, Where Dark Things Grow is a dark bildungsroman set squarely in the place and culture of the 1930s Southern Appalachian Mountains. Where Dark Things Grow is a winner of the Literary Global Book Award for Magical Realism and a Literary Global Book Award for Horror.

Narration and Production by E.B. Barkley.

©2024 Andrew K Clark (P)2025 Andrew K. Clark and E.B. Barkley

Captivating & involved

Really enjoyed this story, the narrator kept me in the moment with the characters almost as if there in the story with them.

Characters woven into a tapestry of Terror and Yearning

Characters, they stick in your thoughts. Andrew K. Clark carefully weaves them into a story tapestry of colors,words, and images that speaks of darkness that dances and tangles with light. Silver threaded thoughts of wisdom, yearning, and love. While smoke winds through darkening the edges of your mind calling forth terrors worse than you imagined narratives expertly told by E.B Barkley.