Appalachian Gothic is distinct from just the blanket Southern Gothic description; Holler Gothic is not Swamp Gothic, y’all.
Southern Gothic generally conjures images of swamps and Spanish moss and old plantation houses in disrepair while their inhabitants refuse to admit the sins of their fathers and grandfathers upon those they enslaved. Southern Gothic is fallen grandeur and secrets.
Appalachian Gothic is ancient mountains and forests, old cabins in the middle of a sea of trees, Things That Are Not Deer moving across backroads, the ghosts of coal miners and the ghosts of the original natives each haunting the hills. Appalachian Gothic is lonely darkness and biding time.















