Southern Gothic

[Enuffsenuffsenuff]

Does anyone have any recommendations for this genre? Especially if they're more recent publications! I recently read Soil and loved it, looking for more in that vein. Thanks

[tripfiction]

Try perhaps Bayou Born and Bayou Bound by Linda Joyce, otherwise some more books on this link: www.tripfiction.com/find-a-book/?location=Mississippi&btitle=&bauthor=&genre=Genre... Hope you find something you like!

[Snowqueeny75]

Is We Have Always Lived in the Castle considered Southern Gothic? Really pleased to be educated on this subject?

Just auto corrected to Southend Gothic, hmm an interesting new genre...

[SatsukiKusakabe]

My references for this are all more classic - Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is more recent (not recent recent!), that might fit.

[Enuffsenuffsenuff]

Thank you for the recommendations! Going on a book shop scout this afternoon

Also very interested in the potential in Southend gothic

[OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow]

In crime fiction-Daniel Woodrell, the Hap and Leonard series by joe Lansdale, some James Sallis (though he's not really southern) Angelheart I really liked (was a film with Mickey rourke)

[Piggywaspushed]

God Of Small Things, whilst Indian, has been said to be influenced by the Southern Gothic.

You could read plays like Streetcar.

Donna Tartt's Little Friend was v southern Gothic iirc.

Salvage The Bones by Jesmyn Ward : I hated it as I found it too too grim. But others have raved about her.

[LassWiADelicateAir]

Might be out of print but Richard Marius' An affair of Honour, After the War and The Coming of Rain
They are a very loose trilogy spanning many years but are standalone novels.

[BeastInView]

Donna Tartt's Little Friend was v southern Gothic iirc

It was. But a real letdown of a book.

[LassWiADelicateAir]

George R R Martin's Fever Dream. Southern gothic vampires on Mississippi steam boats.

[LassWiADelicateAir]

Donna Tartt's Little Friend was v southern Gothic iirc

It was. But a real letdown of a book

It was indeed.

[BeastInView]

It's set in Canada so can't be described as Southern Gothic (although the vibe is certainly dark and gothic) but geographic location aside Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie McDonald might fit the bill.

[LassWiADelicateAir]

Oh gosh I wept buckets at that book and even more at The Way the Crow Flies

[BeastInView]

I'm still so emotionally wrung out from Fall On Your Knees that I haven't tried any of her other books yet

[OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow]

Oh yes forgot about Fevre Dream, read it when it first came out (gulp) about 30 years ago. If you're going horror, you can't beat Interview with a Vampire.