Southern Gothic is essentially tragic, treating darkness as a normalized part of society (see Deliverance), whereas noir is essentially psychological, treating darkness as something that comes from ...

On TikTok, nestled alongside cottagecore, dark academia and gorpcore, the Southern Gothic hashtag has amassed over 9 million views. Played out through current spring-ready trends like puff sleeves, ...

It turns out that I was raised surrounded by Southern Gothic storytelling fodder and had no idea. Those of you raised in the South certainly were, too. Life was what it was. Our world was everything ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This is an image from the official trailer for “The Night of the Hunter” distributed by the ...

Has any other 20th century American author with so little published output – virtually everything she wrote for publication and a few things that she didn’t fit neatly into a single Library of America ...

After the Civil War, the Southern ruling class got to work idealizing the antebellum era of slavery, painting a picture of sweeping oaks, genteel folk and honeyed drawls. "The Lost Cause" was an ideal ...

The post Maya Hawke is Southern Gothic Writer Flannery O’Connor in New Trailer for Wildcat: Watch appeared first on Consequence. Maya Hawke stars as Flannery O’Connor, the celebrated author of ...

Adia Victoria will release a new album on Sept. 17, she announced on Wednesday (Aug. 4). A Southern Gothic is the singer-songwriter's third full-length album. Victoria’s latest album is a work of ...

A much-needed antidote to Mark Twain’s romanticized version of the American South, the Southern Gothic genre drew its gothic elements not from the supernatural or the fantastical but from the ...