THINGS ARE AS THEY SHOULD BE And Other Words To Die For

From Award-Winning Author P.M. Raymond, comes THINGS ARE AS THEY SHOULD BE And Other Words To Die For
 
Releasing April 21, 2026! 
 
THINGS ARE AS THEY SHOULD BE and other words to die for is an interconnected Southern gothic noir journey from Reconstruction New Orleans to a present-day landscape of terror. Each story invests the reader in a setting and characters that traverse the fringes of the Louisiana swamps, pool halls in New Orleans, and attics filled with boxes of cherished memories, each tale patinaed with desperation and death. 
 
An exploration of greed, vengeance, and generational trauma in tales that center Louisiana and its rich history of the wicked, the haunted, and the unforgiven who refuse to rest.
 
 
EARLY PRAISE!
“The imaginative stories in P.M. Raymond’s THINGS ARE AS THEY SHOULD BE And Other Words to Die For slip between Southern Gothic, thriller noir, and atmospheric horror with ease, bending reality till the familiar turns treacherous. Inside these pages lurk meddling ghosts, monstrous humans, and even a Santa gone wicked. Together, these tales guide the reader through a landscape of the strange, the cursed, and the beautifully unsettling.”-Andrew K. Clark, author of WHERE DARK THINGS GROW and WHERE DARK THINGS RISE