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Wells Without Water
A SOUTHERN GOTHIC EPIC OF FAITH, INHERITANCE, AND RECKONING.
Book releasing Spring 2027
Simon & Schuster
Feb 9, 2027
THE AUTHOR OF SKY FULL OF ELEPHANTS RETURNS WITH AN EVOCATIVE, HARROWING NOVEL.
Wells Without Water is an incendiary, poetic, horrifying, and, above all, deeply felt adventure through the lives and loves of the Lo. Cebo Campbell has written a literary horror novel with the heat and rhythm of a Black sermon and the surreal, myth-soaked atmosphere of Southern gothic at its most hallucinatory. As the Lo teeters between rot or revolution, Carmichael is forced to confront a spiritual evil that has plagued humanity from its very beginnings. Wells Without Water brings to light the magical roots of Nat Turner’s rebellion, the power of religion when put in the wrong hands, and the cosmic horror of slavery itself.
IP DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
FORMAT: LIMITED SERIES
STATUS: In Development
A LIMITED SERIES THAT SUMMONS WHAT’S BEEN BURIED
Film/TV Rights are available
The format strategy for Wells Without Water centers on its translation from novel to limited television series. Its layered characters, generational tension, and supernatural undercurrents require space to unfold, the kind of depth only episodic storytelling can hold. Across each episode, the series explores faith, inheritance, and the quiet violence of memory, drawing viewers deeper into the mystery that binds a family, a town, and a nation.
Our goal is to translate the novel’s lyricism into visual and emotional momentum, building a rhythm of revelation, haunting, and release. Through this adaptation, Wells Without Water becomes a modern Southern epic told in chapters of vision and reckoning, an immersive journey through belief, legacy, and the ghosts that refuse to rest.
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