Southern Gothic

Heat, family, and rot beneath the gentility. The American South as gothic landscape — grand houses in decline, secrets kept for generations, and grotesquerie treated as ordinary.

On the Gothic shelf.

Books shelved as Southern Gothic

• Dig — J.H. Markert
• Dark Harvest — Norman Partridge
• La riada — Michael McDowell
• Bastard Out of Carolina — Dorothy Allison
• Blackwater: The Complete Saga — Michael McDowell
• Dark Tales — Shirley Jackson
• Midwestern Gothic — Scott Thomas
• We Are Here to Hurt Each Other — Paula D. Ashe
• Ring Shout — P. Djèlí Clark
• Quaint Folk — Bitter Karella
• Boy's Life — Robert McCammon
• In These Gilded Ghostly Hearts — Gwendolyn Kiste
• I Was a Teenage Slasher — Stephen Graham Jones
• It Ends With Her — Brianna Labuskes
• Boys in the Valley — Philip Fracassi
• Our Sister's Keeper — Jasmine Holmes
• Ghost Eaters — Clay McLeod Chapman
• The Elementals — Michael Rowe
• Summer Sons — Lee Mandelo
• These Prisoning Hills — Christopher Rowe
• Lone Women — Victor LaValle
• American Rapture — CJ Leede
• We Already Dug the Grave — Emma C. Wells
• The Spite House — Johnny Compton

Related genres

• Gothic
• Feminist & Sapphic Gothic
• Classic & Older Gothic
• Dark Academia
• Feminist Gothic
• Sapphic Gothic
• American Gothic
• Australian Gothic

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