In Southern-Fried & Horrified, Splatterpunk Award- winning author Ronald Kelly expounds on a lifetime shaped by his love of horror and the macabre, as well as a thirty-six-year career as a Southern storyteller. His early influences, the long road to publication, success as a Zebra Horror author, the devastating collapse of mass market publishing in the mid-1990s, and his ten-year hiatus from writing and horror... it is all here, between two covers, as well as his triumphant return to the genre and a fresh, new resurgence of his creativity and popularity. Sprinkled generously throughout are essays, writing advice, and lists of Kelly's favorite books and movies, as well as his most cherished heroes, villains, and creatures from the RK mythos. Hunter Shea, author of Creature and To the Devil, A Cryptid, says, " This will sit on my shelf right next to King's On Writing. A treasure to be rediscovered over and over."