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, [ … ]

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 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 [ … ]

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 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 (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 [ … ]