The Dark Water Gospel: Signed Edition — Douglas Stuart McDaniel

This is not a copy pulled from a warehouse shelf.

Personally signed and addressed by the author. Printed and shipped directly to you.

When you order a signed edition from Premium Pulp Fiction, Doug McDaniel handwrites your dedication, signs it, and it is printed as the very first page of your book before it ships directly to you. The ISBN barcode on the back is replaced with a not-for-resale code. This copy was made for you. It cannot be purchased anywhere else. It cannot be resold.

About the book:

Set in East Tennessee, The Dark Water Gospel examines how civic power operates in small communities through omission, loyalty, and managed memory. Drawing on archives, court records, and lived accounts, the stories trace how decisions are made without minutes, how accountability is deferred, and how public language absorbs private misconduct.

Like the work of Flannery O'Connor and James Baldwin, the book is less concerned with exposure than with process — how patterns of harm are reframed as isolated incidents, and how communities learn to live with what they refuse to name. The result is a civic record rather than an indictment, attentive to how power survives by appearing ordinary.

At checkout: Tell us who to address this to. A name, a city, a line that means something. Doug will write it by hand.

Delivery: Made to order. Please allow 7–10 business days.

Want all three? The Southern Civic Noir Trilogy — Signed & Personalized Edition ships all three books together for $69.99, limited to 1,500.