Southern gothic books

For eccentric, flawed characters, sinister events, and explorations of race, class, decay, and isolation, get into Southern Gothic novels.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil-Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares.

Authors form Southern American transformed this very European genre into American during 19th Century, starting with Edgar Allan Poe. American-Southern Gothic novels focus on macabre, sinister, supernatural, grotesque, decay and explore social and cultural problems of the time. Here are 41 best American Gothic novels you must read to fully appreciate the genre. They all are incredibly thought-provoking books in the Southern Gothic canon.

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In the daytime, it is easy to imagine the South as it looks in tourism photos – sunny and filled with smiling people. At night, some people's thoughts turn to darker themes – swamps, voodoo, ghostly strands of Spanish moss, abandoned mansions – the themes of Southern Gothic horror.Southern authors, ...

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Read reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Beautiful and alone, Jennie Gordon came to her sister Selena's San Francisco mansion to find f…

Read 1,369 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. In this atmospheric Appalachian gothic, the Haddesley siblings of West Virginia must une…

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