Southern Gothic Bible presents our first Southern Gothic music playlist. It is the first of an ongoing series and features such artists as Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The [ … ]
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 [ … ]
The Night of the Hunter – Best of the Southern Gothic Films
The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American thriller directed by Charles Laughton, and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubb. The [ … ]
The Gun Club – Southern Gothic Blues
You can’t talk about Southern Gothic blues music without mentioning The Gun Club. The band was the creation of Los Angeles singer, songwriter, and guitarist Jeffrey Lee Pierce. Born of [ … ]
Welcome to Southern Gothic Bible
Welcome to our new site Southern Gothic Bible! We plan on being the definitive collective on all Southern Gothic, and while we will be scouring the depths to shine a [ … ]