Bastard Out of Carolina - Southern Gothic Debut
Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison’s Southern Gothic debut novel, first published twenty-five years ago, features Ruth Anne (Bone) Boatwright,…
"Twilight" - A Southern Gothic Novel
A Southern gothic novel about an undertaker who won’t let the dead rest. Suspecting that something is amiss with their father’s…
Yonder Stands Your Orphan - Southern Gothic Tradition
In his first 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 with two…Continue Reading →
Joe R Landsdale - Horror Western Writer
A prose writer in a variety of genres – Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense – Joe R Landsdale…
GOTH Book Features Heathen Apostles
This month “GOTH: Designing Darkness”, an Goth book by Design Museum Den Bosch, created in tandem with the museum’s GOTH exhibit (which runs…
Nick Cave New Memoir in 2022
Next year, the Nick Cave new 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…Continue Reading →
David Milch Deadwood Book (2006)
There is nothing on television like the award-winning HBO series Deadwood. Beautiful, profane, complex, and sublime, the show is drama at…
Pretty Deadly (2013) Western Horror Tales
Kelly Sue DeConnick’s (Avengers Assemble, Captain Marvel) and Emma Rios’ (Dr. Strange, Osborn) Pretty Deadly is their surprise-hit series that…
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner's Southern Gothic Grit
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…Continue Reading →
The Vine That Ate The South - Southern Gothic Myth
In The Vine That Ate The South JD Wilkes explores a forgotten corner of western Kentucky where there lies a…