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  • Burying the Honeysuckle Girls

    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 Mobile, Alabama, determined to reconnect with her estranged, ailing father. While Althea doesn’t expect him, or her politically ambitious brother, to welcome her with open arms, she’s not prepared for the chilling revelation of a grim, long-buried family secret. Fragile and desperate, Althea escapes with an old flame to uncover the truth about her lineage. Drawn deeper into her ancestors’ lives, Althea begins to unearth their disturbing his... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: B017LGAKEG
    • ASIN: B017LGAKEG
    • Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

  • The Southern Novels: Boy's Life, Mystery Walk, Gone South, and Usher's Passing

    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 four unforgettable novels.  A Boy’s Life: “Strongly echoing the childhood-elegies of King and Bradbury, and every bit their equal,” McCammon’s World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award–winning novel takes place in 1964 Alabama, where a twelve-year-old boy’s idyllic life takes an abrupt turn into a dark world of mystery when he and his father witness a car roll into a lake—only to discover a corpse handcuffed to the steering wheel (Kirkus ... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: B07CMDB8VK
    • ASIN: B07CMDB8VK
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    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 Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.
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    • ASIN: 0061120065
    • ASIN: 0061120065
    • ISBN: 0061120065
    • Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

  • Aunt Sookie & Me: the sordid tale of a scandalous southern belle

    *****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 Readers' FavoritePublishers Weekly - "Aunt Sookie & Me is a heady and hilarious mixture of hard-won wisdom and Southern saltiness.....the tale deals with some weighty issues including sexual identity and domestic violence, but Garvin's compassion and light touch make this a highly entertaining and enjoyable novel."************************************************************** Kirkus Reviews....Michael Scott Garvin tells the story of a 13-year-ol... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: 1545568723
    • ASIN: 1545568723
    • ISBN: 1545568723
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

  • Wickers Bog: A Tale of Southern Gothic Horror

    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 led her into a tale of murder and deceit. It's only the fated who hear the siren. Yet Julene's fate now seems bound to the fabled Lady of Lisenby, the spectral gatekeeper of the Bog, queen of the haunted deep. However, is it justice the Lady seeks or is Julene the siren's next victim? Myth and mystery collide in this tale of Southern Gothic horror.
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    • ASIN: B01N7EJ61A
    • ASIN: B01N7EJ61A
    • Manufacturer: Blue Crescent Press

  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil


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    • ASIN: B003JMFKVK
    • ASIN: B003JMFKVK
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Road


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    • ASIN: 0307387895
    • ASIN: 0307387895
    • ISBN: 9780307387899
    • Brand: Vintage Books
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Weight of Lies: A Novel

    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 glow of their very public life hides a darker reality of lies, manipulation, and the heartbreak of her own solitary childhood. Desperate to break free of her mother, Meg accepts a proposal to write a scandalous, tell-all memoir.Digging into the past—and her mother’s cult classic—draws Meg to Bonny Island, Georgia, and an unusual woman said to be the inspiration for the book. At first island life seems idyllic, but as Meg starts to ask tough... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: B01M04OQWE
    • ASIN: B01M04OQWE
    • Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

  • Cemetery Road: A Novel

    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 exploration of grief, betrayal and corruption… Iles’s latest calls to mind the late, great Southern novelist Pat Conroy. Like Conroy, Iles writes with passion, intensity and absolute commitment.”   — Washington PostWhen Marshall McEwan left his Mississippi hometown at eighteen, he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away spurred him to become one of the most successful journalists in Washington, DC. But as the ascendancy o... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: B07B7L4QMF
    • ASIN: B07B7L4QMF
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • Blackwater: The Complete Saga

    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 a shocking secret. Beneath the waters of the Perdido River, she turns into something terrifying, a creature whispered about in stories that have chilled the residents of Perdido for generations. Some of those who observe her rituals in the river will never be seen again ...Originally published as a series of six volumes in 1983, Blackwater is the crowning achievement of Michael McDowell, author of the Southern Gothic classics Cold Moon Over Babyl... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: B0755KSSVD
    • ASIN: B0755KSSVD
    • Manufacturer: Valancourt Books

  • The Bourbon Thief : A Southern Gothic Novel

    "A family with bourbon in the blood, and blood on their hands."--Front cover.
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    Betrayal, revenge and a family scandal that bore a 150-year-old mystery When Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it's to discover he's been robbed. The only item stolen--a million-dollar bottle of bourbon. The thief, a mysterious woman named Paris, claims the bottle is rightfully hers. After all, the label itself says it's property of the Maddox family who owned and operated the Red Thread Bourbon distillery since the last days of the Civil War, until the company went out of business for reasons no one knows... No one except Paris. In the small hours

    • UPC: 49983005
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Mammoth Book of Southern Gothic Romance

    Presents a collection of Gothic romance stories set in the South that contain elements of mystery, magic, and the
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    Dark romance and the Deep South meet in this collection of eighteen thrilling stories. Set in a lush, steamy world of ceaseless rain, swamps, alligators, overgrown cemeteries, and home-grown magic, these dark and scary, yet pleasurable stories unfold sinister secrets at every

    • UPC: 39967821

  • Spook Lights II: Southern Gothic Horror

    Y'all gather round for thirteen more tales of Southern Gothic horror: Boys find evil in their favorite sweet treat, a perfume shop that makes more than scents, a hurricane carries a mother's vengeance, a conjure woman lies dying, unable to name a successor... This is Gothic horror Southern style-shadowy rice fields, creatures that assume humanity at will-where even the most damaged and delicate have their power. Spook Lights II takes us again South with stories that are graceful in the telling, and beautifully edgy in their details. Humans and haints traverse historic land in search of magic and revenge, finding
    Best Southern Gothic Novels
    Y'all gather round for thirteen more tales of Southern Gothic horror: Boys find evil in their favorite sweet treat, a perfume shop that makes more than scents, a hurricane carries a mother's vengeance, a conjure woman lies dying, unable to name a successor... This is Gothic horror Southern style-shadowy rice fields, creatures that assume humanity at will-where even the most damaged and delicate have their power. Spook Lights II takes us again South with stories that are graceful in the telling, and beautifully edgy in their details. Humans and haints traverse historic land in search of magic and revenge, finding

    • UPC: 866781722
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The Secret Sense of Wildflower - Southern Historical Fiction, Best Book of 2012

    The story of Louisa May "Wildflower" McAllister whose life has been shaped around the recent death of her beloved father in a sawmill accident. While her mother hardens in her grief, Wildflower and her three sisters must cope with their loss themselves, as well as with the demands of daily
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    Named a Best Book of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews! Set in 1940s Appalachia, The Secret Sense of Wildflower tells the story of Louisa May "Wildflower" McAllister whose life has been shaped around the recent death of her beloved father in a sawmill accident. While her mother hardens in her grief, Wildflower and her three sisters must cope with their loss themselves, as well as with the demands of daily survival. Despite these hardships, Wildflower has a resilience that is forged with humor, a love of the land, and an endless supply of questions to God. When Johnny Monroe, the town's

    • UPC: 53392142
    • Rating: 4.25

  • Southern Gothic : New Tales of the South

    Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South is an anthology like no other. Featuring over 15 stories and poems by new and veteran authors, the writing reflects a diverse range of Southern experience. From the post-Katrina New Orleans of Rose Yndigoyen's "Long Gone Girls" and the deep-rooted family of Hardy Jones' "Visitin' Cormierville" to the racial tension of Eryk Pruitt's "Them Riders" and Shane K. Bernard's "The Phrenologist," the anthology represents a new interpretation of the long-established Southern Gothic genre. Each story is paired with original art by Nathan Mark Phillips. Phillips' images pull at the underside of the stories
    Best Southern Gothic Novels
    Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South is an anthology like no other. Featuring over 15 stories and poems by new and veteran authors, the writing reflects a diverse range of Southern experience. From the post-Katrina New Orleans of Rose Yndigoyen's "Long Gone Girls" and the deep-rooted family of Hardy Jones' "Visitin' Cormierville" to the racial tension of Eryk Pruitt's "Them Riders" and Shane K. Bernard's "The Phrenologist," the anthology represents a new interpretation of the long-established Southern Gothic genre. Each story is paired with original art by Nathan Mark Phillips. Phillips' images pull at the underside of the stories

    • UPC: 53405410

  • A guide to Gothic Fiction | What it is & what to read

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    What is the Southern Gothic?

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    To Kill a Mockingbird and the Southern Gothic Tradition

    Did you know that To Kill a Mockingbird descends from a literary tradition with roots that go all the way back to Frankenstein? This educational and entertaining video traces the novel’s literary h...
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