In Southern-Fried & Horrified, Splatterpunk Award-winning author Ronald Kelly shares the story of his life and writing career. The latter spanning nearly-forty years as a self-described Southern storyteller. Kelly shares his early influences, his long road to publication, his success as a horror author under Zebra Books, and recalls the devastating collapse of mass market publishing in the mid-90s. He shares the details about his ten-year hiatus from writing and from horror as well as his triumphant return to the genre. Sprinkled generously throughout are essays, writing advice, and lists of Kelly’ s favorite books and movies, as well as his most cherished heroes, villains, and creatures from the Ronald Kelly mythos.