Dagon

by Fred Chappell

Published 1 January 1987
Peter Leland, a young minister, inherits his grandparents' farm in the mountains of North Carolina. There, he aims to finish his book on Dagon, the maimed pagan deity of fertility described in the First Book of Samuel. But returning to the place of murky childhood memories strangely effects Peter.

It is Time, Lord

by Fred Chappell

Published 1 October 1996
James Christopher is headed for trouble. Once a North Carolina farm boy, James resigns from his job, drinks too much, fails in his attempt to become a writer and has an affair with a woman he dislikes. Obsessed with his past and its deceptions, he struggles to understand his history.