A guide to Gothic Fiction | What it is & what to read
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Burying the Honeysuckle Girls
- ASIN: B017LGAKEG
- Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing
Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother’s tragic, premature death—and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into young Althea’s ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She’ll find you, I think, but if she doesn’t, you find her.Adrift ever since, Althea is now fresh out of rehab and returning to her family home in ... [Read More]
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The Southern Novels: Boy's Life, Mystery Walk, Gone South, and Usher's Passing
- ASIN: B07CMDB8VK
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media
Four chilling tales from the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song and the “true master of the Gothic novel” (Booklist). From rural Alabama to the Louisiana bayou to the North Carolina mountains, World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award–winning author Robert R. McCammon has made the American South his own Gothic playground in these f... [Read More]
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
- ASIN: 0061120065
- ISBN: 0061120065
- Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
- Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Wa... [Read More]
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Aunt Sookie & Me: the sordid tale of a scandalous southern belle
- ASIN: 1545568723
- ISBN: 1545568723
- Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
*****Publishers Weekly - Booklife Finalist*****Indie Brag Award Winner*****Pinnacle Book Award Winner*****Shelf Unbound Notable 100 Books*****BIBA Star Award*****Book Excellence Award Winner*****Golden Crown Winner*****Winner of The Beverly Hills Book Awards*****Winner of The Royal Dragonfly Awards*****New York Book Festival Finalist*****Five Star ... [Read More]
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Wickers Bog: A Tale of Southern Gothic Horror
- ASIN: B01N7EJ61A
- Manufacturer: Blue Crescent Press
Every autumn, when the weather turned and the wind came off the marsh, the dark waters of Wickers Bog gave up its ghosts and reawakened the old yarns. Julene Ella Haddan is about to be drawn into one of them.It was a grey, joyless day, when young Julene heard the song of the siren and followed its melody into the enchanted swamp... a journey which ... [Read More]
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- ASIN: B003JMFKVK
- Brand: Unknown
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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The Road
- ASIN: 0307387895
- ISBN: 9780307387899
- Brand: Vintage Books
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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The Weight of Lies: A Novel
- ASIN: B01M04OQWE
- Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing
In this gripping, atmospheric family drama, a young woman investigates the forty-year-old murder that inspired her mother’s bestselling novel, and uncovers devastating truths—and dangerous lies.Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of privilege, thanks to a bestselling horror novel her mother wrote decades ago. But Meg knows that the ... [Read More]
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Cemetery Road: A Novel
- ASIN: B07B7L4QMF
- Manufacturer: William Morrow
Sometimes the price of justice is a good man’s soul.The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy returns with an electrifying tale of friendship, betrayal, and shattering secrets that threaten to destroy a small Mississippi town.“An ambitious stand-alone thriller that is both an absorbing crime story and an in-depth e... [Read More]
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Blackwater: The Complete Saga
- ASIN: B0755KSSVD
- Manufacturer: Valancourt Books
Blackwater is the saga of a small town, Perdido, Alabama, and Elinor Dammert, the stranger who arrives there under mysterious circumstances on Easter Sunday, 1919. On the surface, Elinor is gracious, charming, anxious to belong in Perdido, and eager to marry Oscar Caskey, the eldest son of Perdido’s first family. But her beautiful exterior hides ... [Read More]
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The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0143039989
- ISBN: 0143039989
- Brand: Shirley Jackson
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive a... [Read More]
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The Almost Sisters: A Novel
- ASIN: B01M3QYT9U
- Manufacturer: William Morrow
With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality---the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really are.Superheroes have always been Leia Birch... [Read More]
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The Elementals
- ASIN: B00KXAQ7NQ
- Manufacturer: Valancourt Books
"The finest writer of paperback originals in America." - Stephen King "Surely one of the most terrifying novels ever written." - Poppy Z. Brite "Beyond any trace of doubt, one of the best writers of horror in this or any other country." - Peter Straub "Readers of weak constitution should beware!" - Publishers Weekly "McDowell has a flair for the gr... [Read More]
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The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek: A Novel
- ASIN: 1984822136
- ISBN: 1984822136
- Manufacturer: Crown
From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality and creators of Good Mythical Morning, a thrilling and darkly funny novel about two best friends fighting the sinister forces at the heart of their Southern townIt’s 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina—a sleepy little place with all the trappings of a... [Read More]
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The Complete Stories (FSG Classics)
- ASIN: 0374515360
- ISBN: 0374515360
- Brand: Noonday Press
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Winner of the National Book AwardThe publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Conv... [Read More]
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The Unremembered Girl: A Novel
- ASIN: B06XNPT7FQ
- Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing
An Amazon Charts bestseller. In the deep woods of East Texas, Henry supports his family by selling bootleg liquor. It’s all he can do to keep his compassionate but ailing mother and his stepfather—a fanatical grassroots minister with a bruising rhetoric—from ruin. But they have no idea they’ve become the obsession of the girl in the woods.A... [Read More]
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The Witching Hour (Lives of Mayfair Witches Book 1)
- ASIN: B004AM5QWG
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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If the Creek Don't Rise: A Novel
- ASIN: B06XRMFXN1
- Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Landmark
"[A] striking debut..." — BUSTLE "...masterful use of language....Weiss' novel is a great suggestion for fans of the Big Stone Gap books, by Adriana Trigiani, and Mitford series, by Jan Karon."—Booklist, STARRED ReviewHe's gonna be sorry he ever messed with me and Loretta LynnSadie Blue has been a wife for fifteen days. That's long enough ... [Read More]
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As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text
- UPC: 884157876417
- ASIN: 067973225X
- ISBN: 067973225X
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Carolina Moon
- ASIN: B005JE2LKO
- Manufacturer: Berkley
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