Southern Gothic

Southern Gothic is a subgenre of the gothic novel, unique to American literature.

Southern Gothic is like its parent genre in that it relies on supernatural, ironic, or unusual events to guide the plot. It is unlike its parent genre in that it uses these tools not solely for the sake of suspense, but also to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the American South. One of the most notable features of the genre is "the grotesque." Southern Gothic authors commonly use deeply flawed, grotesque characters for greater narrative range and more opportunities to highlight unpleasan
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A House with Good Bones
The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree
The Bog Wife
When Devils Sing
The River Knows Your Name
Brutes
The Caretaker
This Cursed House
When the Reckoning Comes
Midnight Is the Darkest Hour
The Devil Three Times
A Spell for Saints and Sinners
Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)
The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)
What Kind of Mother
As I Lay Dying
To Kill a Mockingbird
Wise Blood
The Sound and the Fury
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Child of God (Vintage International)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
The Devil All the Time
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Absalom, Absalom!
Light in August
The Violent Bear It Away
The Complete Stories
Beloved
Suttree

Damon  Thomas
I'd not be shocked if bad water was the source of all the moody Gothic Lit classics. With a few cases of hookworm to add some Southern spunk. ...more
Damon Thomas, Some Books Are Not For Sale

William Gay
In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being born, eggshaped, silverplated, phallic, time thrusting itself gleaming through the worn and worthless husk of the microsecond previous, halting, beginning to show the slow and infinitesimal accreations of decay in the clocking away of life in a mechanism encoded at the moment of conception, withering, shunted aside by time's next orgasmic thrust, and all to the beating of som ...more
William Gay, The Long Home

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