The Definitive Collective for all Southern Gothic
In the Southern Gothic pulp film Nightmare Alley a charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena and her has-been mentalist husband Pete at a traveling carnival, then [ … ]
2020 was a year of loss, reflection, and reevaluation. Trying as the times were to have a trio of tour cancellations both stateside and abroad as the live music industry [ … ]
The Heathen Apostles’ Chopper Franklin has been hired to compose music for the Southern Gothic series The Goodbye Family. The Goodbye Family is the creation of Lorin Morgan-Richards, who has adapted the [ … ]
In The Vine That Ate The South JD Wilkes explores a forgotten corner of western Kentucky where there lies a haunted forest referred to locally as “The Deadening,” where Southern [ … ]
The Heathen Apostles have had to postpone two tours and several shows this year due to COVID 19, and have taken a break from recording their upcoming Bloodgrass Vol. III [ … ]
Killer Joe is a 2011 American Southern Gothic black comedy crime film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay by Tracy Letts is based on his 1993 play of the same [ … ]
True Detective became a huge hit with audiences and critics upon its release in 2014. All the Southern Gothic themes are on display here: ritual murder, the pervasive influence of [ … ]
Margaret Eby wrote this fantastic piece on southern gothic folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham a while back for the Paris Review, we thought our readers would enjoy it: To grow up [ … ]
At SouthernGothicBible.com, GothicAmericana.com and GothicWestern.com we’ve been trying to keep up with the cancellations, postponements and rescheduling of several Southern Gothic music tours, but as everyone knows it’s been difficult [ … ]
James Franco is developing three gritty Southern Gothic films based on novels by crime fiction writer Tom Franklin — “Smonk,” “Poachers,” and “Hell at the Breech,” Variety announced. Franco and [ … ]