Next year, the Nick Cave memoir on life in the wake of his son Arthur’s sudden death in 2015 will be published. Faith, Hope and Carnage is based on 40 hours [ … ]

From the bestselling author of Kinflicks and Kinfolks comes Blood Feud, a riveting new narrative history of America’s most infamous fighting families, the Hatfields and the McCoys. Lisa Alther, a native of [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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! 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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 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, [ … ]