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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I'll Make a Spectacle of You
If the Dead Belong Here
Psychopomp & Circumstance
A House with Good Bones
The Bog Wife
When the Reckoning Comes
L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
Brutes
Midnight Is the Darkest Hour
Pew
The Caretaker
Mayra
The River Knows Your Name
Southern Man (Penn Cage, #7)
Psychopomp & Circumstance
Smothermoss
When Devils Sing
Revelator
As I Lay Dying
To Kill a Mockingbird
Wise Blood
The Sound and the Fury
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Child of God
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Devil All the Time
Absalom, Absalom!
Light in August
The Violent Bear It Away
The Complete Stories
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Suttree

From When Goodness Dies “Goodness doesn’t vanish—it fades slowly, like the last light in a room where love used to live.
Thomas Miller

Damon  Thomas
When I was a kid an older guy sat out front of a gas station in Old Town, FL. His favorite story involved roughing up a couple of guys because "you could tell they weren't from around here." The gruesome details were implied as he'd pull out a straight razor and a plastic bag containing Red Devil lye. "Deliverance", the end of "Easy Rider", and every "wrong turn" horror movie would later make more sense because of those childhood stops for gas and a Yoo-hoo. ...more
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