Rougarou

ROUGAROU is a Southern Gothic horror novel rooted in Louisiana folklore, generational trauma, and the terrifying idea that some sins never die, they only wait.

In the swamps of Monroe, Louisiana, there are old stories people whisper only when the sun goes down. Stories about something that hunts beneath the cypress trees. Something older than the towns built around it. Something that wears many skins.

In 1995, a pastor and his young son vanish after a brutal night in the bayou. What remains is a massacre the town refuses to explain and a legend no one dares challenge. The truth is buried with the bodies, soaked into the soil, and carried forward in blood.

Twenty seven years later, Emma Robichaux returns to Monroe to bury the mother who abandoned her as a child. She plans to settle the estate, sell the decaying house she grew up in, and leave Louisiana forever. But the past does not let go so easily.

The house remembers her.

The town watches her.

And something in the swamp knows her name.

As Emma unravels her mother's secrets, hallucinations blur with memory, nightmares bleed into waking life, and the line between inherited trauma and supernatural curse begins to dissolve. Strange men speak in warnings. Animals vanish. The air itself feels heavy with hunger. And beneath it all is a truth her mother died trying to keep buried.

The Rougarou is real.

And it is not finished with her family.

Blending Southern folklore with brutal psychological horror, ROUGAROU explores the cost of survival, the weight of legacy, and the terrifying idea that love can be twisted into something monstrous. It is a story about blood inheritance, about parents who try to protect their children by running, and about the horror of discovering that what was meant to save you may be the very thing that destroys you.

Dark, grounded, and relentlessly atmospheric, ROUGAROU is a haunting descent into the Louisiana swamps where faith fractures, curses endure, and the hunger never sleeps.

Once it marks you, it never lets go.