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 [ … ]
Category: Literature
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a non-fiction Southern Gothic novel by John Berendt. The book, Berendt’s first, was published in 1994 and follows the story of [ … ]
Little Sister Death (2015) – Curse of the Bell Witch
A stirring literary rendition of Tennessee’s famed Curse of the Bell Witch, Little Sister Death skillfully toes the line between Southern Gothic and horror, and further cements William Gay’s legacy as not [ … ]
Swamplandia!: Gothic Swamp Novel
Swamplandia! is a 2011 gothic swamp novel by Karen Russell. Set in the Ten Thousand Islands, off the southwest coast of Florida, it is the story of the Bigtree family [ … ]
“Killers of the Flower Moon” – American Indian Gothic
From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, comes Killers of the Flower Moon, a haunting true-life American Indian [ … ]
Deliverance (1970) – Hillbilly Gothic
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state’s most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a [ … ]
Weird Wild West: True Tales of the Strange and Gothic (2019)
The Weird Wild West is infamous for its outrageous stories, cowboys, and gun battles. But the region is also known for its ghost stories, unexplained deaths, bizarre murders, and peculiar [ … ]
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Gothic American Story
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father’s inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, [ … ]
To Kill A Mockingbird – Deep South Gothic
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a [ … ]
The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner’s Gothic South
The Sound and the Fury is a novel written by the American author William Faulkner. It employs a number of narrative styles, including stream of consciousness. Published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury was [ … ]