The Haunted Hillbilly Paperback by Derek McCormack

Product Details

• Publisher: Soft Skull (2004-09-13)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 112 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781932360479
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

The Haunted Hillbilly is an historical first-person narrative, told by Nudie "The Rodeo Tailor" (perhaps most famous for dressing Elvis Presley) a gay couturier who, in Derek McCormack’s spellbinding world, also happens to be a vampire. As the story evolves with its magical poetic cadence, Nudie, in grand Svengali-style, makes, then breaks, the career of Hank, a country-and-western singer at the Grand Ole Opry. A blend of fact and fancy, The Haunted Hillbilly conjures the seamy gay underside hidden beneath country music’s sparkly, sequinned surface.

About the Author

Derek McCormack is a Canadian writer whose work is characterized by its extreme brevity and its humorous, often distinctly queer forms of sexual darkness. The author of eleven novels and collections of short stories, he currently lives in Toronto.