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, ...
A southern gothic tale of familial revenge, Is God Is finds first-time filmmaker Aleshea Harris adapting her own play for the screen.
In his new novel Revelator, Shirley Jackson Award winner Daryl Gregory spins an addictive tale of Southern gothic-tinged horror, set alternately in 1936 and 1948 in Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains.
It's the misfortune of “Jessabelle” to arrive just a few months after HBO's “True Detective,” which commanded all the gravitas and exoticism the Southern Gothic genre has to offer. The gruesome crime ...
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 ...
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 ...
A house has been built inside the Windy City Playhouse on Irving Park Road. I speak not of a conventional setting nor the usual stage facsimile of a house. As you walk into the theater for the play ...
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 ...