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 [ … ]
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Gods of Howl Mountain – Southern Gothic and Bootlegging
In Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country of 1950s North Carolina. There has always been [ … ]
What Blooms From The Dust – Dust Bowl Gothic
What Blooms From Dust is set in Nowhere: a town slowly choking in the Dust Bowl Gothic of 1930s America. And it gets a shock when Jeremiah Goodbye returns: convicted of [ … ]
“The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” – Carson McCullers Dark Debut
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the début novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication. Set in a small town in the middle of [ … ]
Cormac McCarthy Southern Gothic Tale “Outer Dark”
A woman bears her brother’s child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother’s lie, she sets [ … ]
And the Ass Saw the Angel – Nick Cave Novel and Cult Classic
And the Ass Saw the Angel , the first Nick Cave novel, is an inventive tall tale featuring (and lampooning) religious fanaticism and bizarre dogma. Euchrid Eucrow, despised [ … ]
Sanctuary – A Faulkner Southern Gothic Classic
“Good God, I can’t publish this. We’d both be in jail.” So said Faulkner’s publisher prior to the 1931 publication of his sensational novel of rape and murder, focusing on [ … ]
Wise Blood and Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor’s haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom Wise Blood. Wise Blood and Flannery O’Connor are both astonishing and haunting; as a first novel Wise Blood is [ … ]