Cormac McCarthy has died at 89 of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. McCarthy, long considered one of the great novelists of American literature, had his passing [ … ]
Category: Literature
Harrow County – Southern Gothic Graphic Novel
Harrow County is an Southern Gothic graphic novel that ran from 2015 to 2018. It was created by writer Cullen Bunn and artist Tyler Crook, and published by Dark Horse [ … ]
The Pale Blue Eye – Edgar Allan Poe Mystery
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 [ … ]
“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 [ … ]
“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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Hatfields and McCoys Book Blood Feud
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 [ … ]
The Vine That Ate The South – Southern Gothic Mythology
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 (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 [ … ]