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K. Scott Culpepper

Home Featured Authors & Panelists Featured Participant Lineup 2025 K. Scott Culpepper

K. Scott Culpepper is an author, historian, and speaker creatively exploring the history and mystery of human experiences. He holds a PhD from Baylor University and specializes in the history of the Atlantic World. His nonfiction book Francis Johnson and the English Separatist Influence was published by Mercer University Press in 2011. He teaches courses in history and religious studies at a private university in Iowa where he lives with his wife, Ginger.

Schedule

9:30 am to 10:15 am
State Library, Fifth Floor, Serials
Speak of the Devil: Where Music, Madness, and Murder Meet
K. Scott Culpepper, The Demonologists’ Daughters
Vincent B. “Chip” LoCoco, The Devil’s Jazz: The Haunted Chronicles of the Axman of New Orleans

10:30 am to 11:15 am
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

The Demonologists' Daughters

Some family secrets may be better left buried.

Diana Chambers thought she escaped her life as the daughter of famous demon hunters Denny and Lucille Hebert, that is until an exorcism turns fatal and her father is charged with murder. Now, forced to return home to Louisiana and the family she left behind, Diana is reunited with her surviving sisters to uncover the truth behind the murder. She unearths long-buried secrets that could destroy her family by unleashing the most frightening demons of all, the Heberts’ personal demons.

The Demonologists’ Daughters, a suspense and psychological mystery thriller with horror elements, takes readers into a world where The Conjuring meets Little Women.