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Genres: Southern Gothic

Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

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✧ Southern Gothic:

Hey y'all! I have been utterly captivated with the rise in the acknowledgment and interest in the southern gothic aesthetic, so I've decided to create a small collection of movies, books, music, and videos that talk about the southern gothic literary tradition!

Movies:

Eve’s Bayou

Miller’s Girl

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

The Beguiled

This Property is Condemned

Books:

Kindred, by Octavia Butler (I was actually assigned this book in one of my classes last year and it was my first glimpse into southern gothic literature. I consider it a southern gothic and sci-fi fusion. It remains one of my favorite books to this day.)

When the Reckoning Comes, by Latanya McQueen

Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves, by Quinn Connor

The Boatman’s Daughter, by Andy Davidson

The Bog Wife, by Kay Chronister

This Cursed House, by Del Sandeen

A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams

Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward

A House With Good Bones, by Ursula Vernon

House of Cotton, by Monica Brashears

Music:

Snakebit, Mary Gauthier

The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie, Colter Wall

Eat Your Young, Hozier

Rosemary, Sierra Ferrell

Bottom of the River, Delta Rae

Fingers to the Bone, Brown Bird

Satan and St. Paul, John Fullbright

Hells Bells, Cary Ann Hearst

Bang Bang, Nancy Sinatra

Hell’s Comin’ With Me, Poor Man’s Poison

Diana, Comus

Feeling Good, Nina Simone

Get Your Head Chopped Off, Rusty Cage

Weak Like Me, Trash the Brand

The Hand That Feeds, The Crane Wives

Glitter and Gold, Barns Courtney

Kill the Sun, Rusty Cage

Scavenger On the Wind, Mangy Bones

If It Hadn’t Been for Love, The Steeldrivers

Graves, Whiskey Shivers

Videos:

Southern Gothic Lit Still Matters, Please read your book

American Southern Gothic Literature: Themes, Characters, and Author Biographies of Southern Fiction, Learning Language Arts

Southern Gothic Literature, Mckenzie Hammack

Contemporary Southern Gothic Aesthetic With Jill Goad, Romancing the Gothic

DARK AMERICANA: The Horror of Home, Connor McGrath

✧ I hope y'all like this! I've got 10 tons of crap in the works but my requests are still open if y'all want to send one in! I have the fandoms I write from linked for y'all right here! Fandoms I can Write From. Have a good rest of your day or night! ✧

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FLANNERY O'CONNOR Wise Blood

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.

Nothing outside you can give you any place. You needn't look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

If there was any Fall, look there, if there was any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where in your time and your body can they be?

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Wise Blood, John Huston

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idk how many ppl out there know this film but i was thinking about it today so I made an edit. I feel like I've really gotten comfortable in my editing style

wise blood 1979 // god's away on business - tom waits

melismasthmatic

as I lay dying is in fact a very dark and serious book and so does nothing to prepare you for the absolute looney tunes slapstick shit that happens to that coffin