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Must-read Southern Gothic Novels
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Tags: books, gothic, southern, American South, literature, stories
From Wikipedia: Southern Gothic is a subgenre of the Gothic writing style, unique to American literature. Like its parent genre, it relies on supernatural, ironic, or unusual events to guide the plot. Unlike its predecessor, it uses these tools not for the sake of suspense, but to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the American South.
| | Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor |
| | The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor |
| | Deliverance by James Dickey |
| | The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers |
| | Child of God by Cormac McCarthy |
| | Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison |
| | King of Nod by Scott Fad |
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