Nightmare Alley Remake By Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro is ready to return to directing after winning an Oscar for The Shape of Water. The filmmaker…
Peetie Wheatstraw - The Devil's Son in Law
Peetie Wheatstraw began recording in 1930 and was so popular that he continued to record through the Great Depression, when the…
Outer Dark - Gothic Appalachia
Outer Dark is the second novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy, published in 1968. The time and setting are somewhere in gothic Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the twentieth century. The…Continue Reading →
Lawless Soundtrack - Nick Cave Bootlegger Movie
Listening to 85-year-old bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley sing Captain Beefheart and Velvet Underground songs on the soundtrack to Lawless is certainly disorienting – which…
Agnes Lake Hickok Biography - Wife of a Legend
This Agnes Lake Hickok Biography is the amazing story of the wife of Wild Bill Hickok that appears for the…
Wise Blood, Southern Gothic Literature At It's Best
Flannery O’Connor‘s haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom is Wise Blood, the Southern Gothic literature gold-standard. Wise Blood and Flannery O’Connor are both astonishing and haunting;…Continue Reading →
And the Ass Saw the Angel: Nick Cave and His Demons
And the Ass Saw the Angel, Nick Cave of the Bad Seeds’ first novel, is an inventive tall tale featuring…
The Grapes of Wrath (1939), American Gothic Literature
Widely renowned as a literary classic, and a great example of American Gothic literature, The Grapes of Wrath is a novel…
Nightmare Alley (1947) - Gothic Carnival Tale
In this gothic carnival saga, the ambitious Stanton “Stan” Carlisle works in a sideshow as carny and assistant of the mentalist Zeena Krumbein, who is married with the alcoholic Pete.…Continue Reading →