The nine short stories in Names present Daniel L. Williams’ original take on Southern Gothic. Vignettes of ordinary suburban lives, punctuated by irrational and gruesome acts violence, are recounted in the awkward, dream-numbed voices of kids and teens. For the most part his style is plainly bare in a way that evokes a child-like purity and vulnerability—but his sentences can become thornily strange and alienating.
Fiction is just one of several mediums in the small and compelling body of work that Williams created before his death in July 2013. He considered himself primarily a photographer. As the nine images included in Names show, he loved to shoot in-between spaces, the portals the mixed public and private life: lobbies, entryways, air ducts, corridors, and other places that makes the circulation of bodies possible. But he always tried to catch these places when they were empty, and avoided photographing signage or any other traces of fixed meaning. The spaces of his photography are blank, open, and impressionable, like people whose names are unknown, or names unattached to people. They are as empty as the minds and bodies of the characters in Names before they are suddenly visited by evil.
— Brian Droitcour
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