“Deo Vindici follows a traumatized veteran who returns to Mississippi and finds himself psychologically consumed by the violent legacy of the Civil War. Clark collapses the distance between past and present, treating inherited historical trauma not as memory but as living, inescapable possession.”
KEYWORDS: screenplay, biopic, thriller, horror, Civil War, Vicksburg campaign, Earl van Dorn
136 pages 6x9 Trade book Available as a Paperback, PDF book, or ebook Read a 15-page preview at Blurb.com
Where the Dead Vote and the Soil Remembers
Clark’s Deo Vindici is a fever-soaked plunge into the unfinished business of American history. Rebul, a veteran unmoored from the present, returns to Vicksburg to find that the Civil War has never quite conceded defeat — it lingers in the red clay, in family silence, in the architecture of grief. Clark writes with the reckless intensity of a man who believes the past is not metaphor but active wound. The prose is ragged, sometimes dangerously so, yet its disorientation feels earned. This is Southern Gothic stripped of its gentility — raw, haunted, and stubbornly unresolved.
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