The Pale Blue Eye is an Edgar Allan Poe mystery tale: At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a [ … ]
Heathen Apostles’ Southern Gothic Video
The Heathen Apostles have released a new Southern Gothic music video; Roots Run Deep is the first single from their new album Bloodgrass Vol. 3 & 4 (produced by Chopper Franklin), out now on Ratchet [ … ]
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020) Ma Rainey Film
The Ma Rainey film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a 2020 American biographical drama film directed by George C. Wolfe and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, based on the 1982 play [ … ]
“Yonder Stands Your Orphan” – Southern Gothic Novel
In his first Southern Gothic novel in ten years, Barry Hannah’s Yonder Stands Your Orphan opens with the establishment of an orphans’ camp and the discovery of an abandoned car [ … ]
Heathen Apostles New Gothic Americana Album
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 [ … ]
“Twilight” – A Southern Gothic Tale
A Southern gothic tale about an undertaker who won’t let the dead rest. Suspecting that something is amiss with their father’s burial, teenager Kenneth Tyler and his sister Corrie venture [ … ]
Southern Gothic Art Book by Jean-Luc Navette
With his black crows, black shotguns and Appalachia angers, to the fine-line scratching of handlebar-mustached men, rustic shacks and dead stags, Jean-Luc Navette’s oeuvre is much more firmly fixed on [ … ]
Nightmare Alley (2021) – Southern Gothic Pulp Film
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 [ … ]
Nick Cave Memoir Coming Soon
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 [ … ]
Heathen Apostles – New Southern Gothic Release
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 [ … ]