Bookish and Cozy

Genres: Southern Gothic

Hey y'all! I have been utterly captivated with the rise in the acknowledgment and interest in the southern gothic aesthetic, so I've decided to create a small collection of movies, books, music, and videos that talk about the southern gothic literary tradition!

Movies:

Eve’s Bayou 

Miller’s Girl

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

The Beguiled

This Property is Condemned 

Books:

Kindred, by Octavia Butler (I was actually assigned this book in one of my classes last year and it was my first glimpse into southern gothic literature. I consider it a southern gothic and sci-fi fusion. It remains one of my favorite books to this day.)

When the Reckoning Comes, by Latanya McQueen

Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves, by Quinn Connor

The Boatman’s Daughter, by Andy Davidson

The Bog Wife, by Kay Chronister

This Cursed House, by Del Sandeen

A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams

Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward

A House With Good Bones, by Ursula Vernon

House of Cotton, by Monica Brashears

Music:

Snakebit, Mary Gauthier

The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie, Colter Wall

Eat Your Young, Hozier

Rosemary, Sierra Ferrell

Bottom of the River, Delta Rae

Fingers to the Bone, Brown Bird

Satan and St. Paul, John Fullbright

Hells Bells, Cary Ann Hearst

Bang Bang, Nancy Sinatra

Hell’s Comin’ With Me, Poor Man’s Poison

Diana, Comus

Feeling Good, Nina Simone

Get Your Head Chopped Off, Rusty Cage

Weak Like Me, Trash the Brand

The Hand That Feeds, The Crane Wives

Glitter and Gold, Barns Courtney

Kill the Sun, Rusty Cage

Scavenger On the Wind, Mangy Bones

If It Hadn’t Been for Love, The Steeldrivers

Graves, Whiskey Shivers

Videos:

Southern Gothic Lit Still Matters, Please read your book

 American Southern Gothic Literature: Themes, Characters, and Author Biographies of Southern Fiction, Learning Language Arts

 Southern Gothic Literature, Mckenzie Hammack

 Contemporary Southern Gothic Aesthetic With Jill Goad, Romancing the Gothic

 DARK AMERICANA: The Horror of Home, Connor McGrath 

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.

Nothing outside you can give you any place. You needn't look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

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