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The Heathen Apostles’ Chopper Franklin has been hired to compose music for the Southern Gothic series The Goodbye Family. The Goodbye Family is the creation of Lorin Morgan-Richards, who has adapted the [ … ]
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 [ … ]
The Heathen Apostles have had to postpone two tours and several shows this year due to COVID 19, and have taken a break from recording their upcoming Bloodgrass Vol. III [ … ]
Killer Joe is a 2011 American Southern Gothic black comedy crime film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay by Tracy Letts is based on his 1993 play of the same [ … ]
True Detective became a huge hit with audiences and critics upon its release in 2014. All the Southern Gothic themes are on display here: ritual murder, the pervasive influence of [ … ]
Margaret Eby wrote this fantastic piece on southern gothic folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham a while back for the Paris Review, we thought our readers would enjoy it: To grow up [ … ]
At SouthernGothicBible.com, GothicAmericana.com and GothicWestern.com we’ve been trying to keep up with the cancellations, postponements and rescheduling of several Southern Gothic music tours, but as everyone knows it’s been difficult [ … ]
James Franco is developing three gritty Southern Gothic films based on novels by crime fiction writer Tom Franklin — “Smonk,” “Poachers,” and “Hell at the Breech,” Variety announced. Franco and [ … ]
The Earl Brothers aren’t brothers or named Earl, but they’ve been making waves in bluegrass circles by dropping the fancy picking of traditional bands on top of tunes that hew [ … ]
In the southern gothic drama Beasts of the Southern Wild a storm approaches a southern Louisiana bayou community called the “Bathtub” (a community cut off from the rest of the world by a levee), [ … ]