Andy Davidson
Andy Davidson holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Mississippi. His work has appeared in publications such as Drunken Boat, Carve magazine, the Santa Clara Review and other journals. He lives in Georgia with his wife. In the Valley of the Sun is his first novel.
In the Valley of the Sun
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One night in 1980, a man becomes a monster.
Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in honky-tonk bars on the back roads of Texas. What he does with them doesnโt make him proud โ it just quiets the demons for a little while. But when he crosses paths with one particular mysterious pale-skinned girl, he wakes up weak and bloodied, with no memory of the night before. Finding refuge at a small motel, Travis develops feelings for the owner, Annabelle, but at night he fights a horrible transformation and his need to feed.
Half a state away, a grizzled Texas Ranger is hunting Travis for his past misdeeds, but what he finds will lead him to a revelation far more monstrous. A man of the law, heโll have to decide how far into the darkness heโll go for the sake of justice.
Prizes and awards
Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award 2018, SHORTLISTED
Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel 2017, SHORTLISTED
Best Novel in This Is Horror awards 2017, RUNNER-UP
REVIEWS OF In the Valley of the Sun
โBy turns spare and solemn โ but also vast and treacherous โ as the Southwest.โ Jeffrey Stayton
โDavidsonโs rich prose plunges the reader into a hell all the more terrifying for its banality... grabs you by the throat and drags you down a twisted road.โ E.Z. Rinsky
โA beautiful nightmare. A book that haunts, teases, and compels. a must-read for any brave horror fan.โ Erik Storey
โLike some knives, a work of artโsharp, frightening, and elegant.โ Nicholas Mainieri
โA perfectly paced thriller thatโs chillingly fun to read, but Davidsonโs prose transcends genre like a fresh Cormac McCarthy.โ Dana Chamblee Carpenter
โA flint-hard, gorgeously-written nightmare.โ Laird Barron
โA riveting blend of vampire horror, a serial killerโs tale, and police procedural.โ Dana Cameron
