American Gothic


We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Haunting of Hill House
Beloved
As I Lay Dying
The Scarlet Letter
The House of the Seven Gables
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Child of God
Wise Blood
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Absalom, Absalom!
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Don Robertson
“ Herman Marshall breathed the Smith & Wesson, and its odor was like wisps of powdered coal. Loop 610 was behind a distant row of tract houses, and he listened to the traffic. It was an unrelenting hiss the way Niagara Falls no doubt was an unrelenting hiss. It was a perfect and endless sound of fear and danger that had been created by the human race because everyone said Progress, and hip, hip, hooray, kiss my ass, let’s all bow down in the face of good old Progress. Herman Marshall grunted. He w ...more ”
― Don Robertson, The Ideal, Genuine Man

A.D. Aliwat
“ Them, graves, the city in late-August haze: a twenty-first-century American Gothic. ”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

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