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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New Releases Tagged "Southern Gothic"

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

Thomas         Miller
A dark Southern Gothic tale of forbidden desire and supernatural vengeance. Within the cursed halls of Chesterson Manor, love turns deadly, and ghosts of the past hunger for redemption.
Thomas Miller, The Deadly Lust Of Chesterson Manor : A Story Of Lust Love And Death

William Faulkner
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind—and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists sat it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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