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 ...
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 ...
Houndmouth’s Matt Meyers and Shane Cody catch up with Kyle Meredith to talk about their new album, Good for You. The pair welcomed Meredith into the very practice space and recording studio that they ...
These days, she’s the immortal doyenne of Southern Gothic for literary critics. But before that title stuck, when she was still alive and young and frustrated with critics, Flannery O’Connor wrote ...
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 ...
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