Cherokee syllabary

The inclusion of a family tree and transliterated Salagi words provides a crucial context that centers the Cherokee worldview.

Stunning white-on-black graphic art by Cherokee artist Jeff Edwards, incorporating symbols of Cherokee syllabary visually enhances the collection.

Rogers masterfully blends traditional horror elements, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, zombies, and various folkloric creatures like the Deer Woman and Lake Worth Monster with the chilling realities of historical and ongoing atrocities.

The true horrors explored are genocide, cultural annihilation, domestic violence, sexual assault, school shootings, medical experimentation, pandemics, and ecological catastrophes.

And in a cave in northern Alabama, it has one.

Manitou Cave contains inscriptions written on its walls in the Cherokee syllabary, the writing system developed nearby by Sequoyah in the 1820s.

A team of Cherokee scholars working alongside archaeologists has read them.

They are first-person accounts, left by Cherokee people, of what they were doing deep inside that cave.