Best Southern Gothic Literature

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Thirteen Moons
Thirteen Moons 3.75 avg rating — 16,136 ratings
202.
All We Need of Hell
All We Need of Hell 3.95 avg rating — 669 ratings
202.
The Mysterious Stranger
The Mysterious Stranger 4.12 avg rating — 11,374 ratings
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Tales of Mystery and Imagination 4.09 avg rating — 10,387 ratings
202.
The Tilted World
The Tilted World 3.87 avg rating — 6,002 ratings
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The Counselor: A Screenplay
The Counselor: A Screenplay 3.32 avg rating — 2,359 ratings
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The Black Cat
The Black Cat 4.03 avg rating — 54,348 ratings
206.
The World Made Straight
The World Made Straight
by: Ron Rash
3.90 avg rating — 3,298 ratings
209.
The Portable Faulkner
The Portable Faulkner 4.30 avg rating — 888 ratings
209.
The Cove
The Cove
by: Ron Rash
3.70 avg rating — 12,378 ratings
211.
The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death 4.06 avg rating — 44,775 ratings
211.
One Foot in Eden
One Foot in Eden
by: Ron Rash
4.13 avg rating — 6,024 ratings
213.
The Unvanquished: The Corrected Text
The Unvanquished: The Corrected Text 3.77 avg rating — 6,498 ratings
213.
The Raven
The Raven 4.29 avg rating — 163,420 ratings
213.
Above the Waterfall
Above the Waterfall
by: Ron Rash
3.53 avg rating — 6,291 ratings
213.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 3.97 avg rating — 3,972 ratings
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Burning Bright
Burning Bright
by: Ron Rash
4.11 avg rating — 3,478 ratings
217.
The Last Ballad
The Last Ballad 3.87 avg rating — 8,263 ratings
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Saints at the River
Saints at the River
by: Ron Rash
3.84 avg rating — 4,771 ratings
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The Gardener's Son: A Screenplay
The Gardener's Son: A Screenplay 3.46 avg rating — 1,407 ratings
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The Risen
The Risen
by: Ron Rash
3.73 avg rating — 4,627 ratings
222.
Dead Ends: Stories from the Gothic South
Dead Ends: Stories from the Gothic South 3.70 avg rating — 233 ratings
222.
She Walks These Hills (Ballad, #3)
She Walks These Hills (Ballad, #3) 4.11 avg rating — 4,406 ratings
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Southern Gothic
Southern Gothic 3.46 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Fay
Fay 3.99 avg rating — 3,106 ratings
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Maestro del terror (Epoca Warren) - Berni Wrightson (Obras Completas, #1)
Maestro del terror (Epoca Warren) - Berni Wrightson (Obras Completas, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings
226.
Tap Roots (Dabney Family Saga #2)
Tap Roots (Dabney Family Saga #2) 4.02 avg rating — 59 ratings
228.
The Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery, Vol. 1
The Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery, Vol. 1
by: Russ Kick
3.58 avg rating — 125 ratings
228.
Oh, Promised Land (Dabney Family Saga #1)
Oh, Promised Land (Dabney Family Saga #1) 4.19 avg rating — 58 ratings
230.
Graphic Classics, Volume 1: Edgar Allan Poe
Graphic Classics, Volume 1: Edgar Allan Poe 3.69 avg rating — 359 ratings
230.
Good-Bye, My Lady
Good-Bye, My Lady 4.27 avg rating — 128 ratings
232.
Jayber Crow
Jayber Crow 4.40 avg rating — 21,227 ratings
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Edgar Allan Poe's Haunt of Horror
Edgar Allan Poe's Haunt of Horror 3.69 avg rating — 297 ratings
233.
A Gracious Plenty
A Gracious Plenty 3.98 avg rating — 2,646 ratings
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A New Reader of the Old South: Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs, 1820-1920
A New Reader of the Old South: Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs, 1820-1920 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
236.
A Modern Southern Reader
A Modern Southern Reader 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
236.
Cross Creek
Cross Creek 4.05 avg rating — 2,615 ratings
238.
Appalachian Gateway: An Anthology of Contemporary Stories and Poetry
Appalachian Gateway: An Anthology of Contemporary Stories and Poetry really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Gap Creek
Gap Creek 3.74 avg rating — 54,202 ratings
240.
The Night of the Hunter
The Night of the Hunter 4.18 avg rating — 2,809 ratings
241.
Armored Hearts: Selected & New Poems
Armored Hearts: Selected & New Poems 4.03 avg rating — 69 ratings
241.
Traveller
Traveller 3.91 avg rating — 1,250 ratings
243.
Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump
Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump 4.54 avg rating — 57 ratings
243.
The President's Lady
The President's Lady 3.95 avg rating — 1,843 ratings
245.
In a U-Haul North of Damascus
In a U-Haul North of Damascus 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings
245.
The Handsome Road (Plantation Trilogy, #2)
The Handsome Road (Plantation Trilogy, #2) 4.05 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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Under the Vulture Tree
Under the Vulture Tree 4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
247.
Deep Summer (Plantation Trilogy, #1)
Deep Summer (Plantation Trilogy, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 1,702 ratings
249.
Vagrant Grace: Poems
Vagrant Grace: Poems 3.71 avg rating — 31 ratings
249.
Confederates
Confederates 4.07 avg rating — 1,258 ratings
251.
The Searchers
The Searchers 4.21 avg rating — 4,052 ratings
252.
The Boys of the Dark: A Story of Betrayal and Redemption in the Deep South
The Boys of the Dark: A Story of Betrayal and Redemption in the Deep South 4.03 avg rating — 508 ratings
253.
THE GREAT MEADOW
THE GREAT MEADOW 3.84 avg rating — 70 ratings
254.
The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement
The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement 4.14 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The Time of Man
The Time of Man 3.84 avg rating — 165 ratings
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THE STARRY PLACE BETWEEN THE ANTLERS. WHY I LIVE IN SOUTH CAROLINA
THE STARRY PLACE BETWEEN THE ANTLERS. WHY I LIVE IN SOUTH CAROLINA 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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House Divided
House Divided 4.31 avg rating — 249 ratings
258.
Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir
Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir 3.49 avg rating — 1,996 ratings
258.
Maria (Florida Trilogy, #1)
Maria (Florida Trilogy, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 966 ratings
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Southern Selves: From Mark Twain and Eudora Welty to Maya Angelou and Kaye Gibbons A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
Southern Selves: From Mark Twain and Eudora Welty to Maya Angelou and Kaye Gibbons A Collection of Autobiographical Writing 3.97 avg rating — 63 ratings
260.
The Kentuckians (Kentuckians, #1)
The Kentuckians (Kentuckians, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 255 ratings
262.
Southern Appalachian Storytellers: Interviews with Sixteen Keepers of the Oral Tradition (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 27)
Southern Appalachian Storytellers: Interviews with Sixteen Keepers of the Oral Tradition (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 27) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
262.
Jubilee
Jubilee 4.37 avg rating — 6,827 ratings
264.
Fatal Flowers: On Sin, Sex, and Suicide in the Deep South
Fatal Flowers: On Sin, Sex, and Suicide in the Deep South 3.73 avg rating — 91 ratings
264.
Nop's Trials
Nop's Trials 4.10 avg rating — 804 ratings
266.
Southern Ladies and Gentlemen
Southern Ladies and Gentlemen 4.08 avg rating — 535 ratings
266.
Christy
Christy 4.25 avg rating — 56,479 ratings
268.
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady: A Memoir
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady: A Memoir 4.02 avg rating — 1,954 ratings
268.
The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War
The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War 3.99 avg rating — 1,816 ratings
270.
All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality
All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality 3.86 avg rating — 37 ratings
270.
The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War
The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War 3.97 avg rating — 612 ratings
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The Complete Lunch Box: The Life and Works of Deacon Lunch Book, a Cornucopia of Southern Culture
The Complete Lunch Box: The Life and Works of Deacon Lunch Book, a Cornucopia of Southern Culture 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
272.
The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War
The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War 3.99 avg rating — 618 ratings
274.
Pelican Road
Pelican Road 4.04 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living
Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living 3.96 avg rating — 5,055 ratings
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Enemy Women
Enemy Women 3.76 avg rating — 8,329 ratings
277.
News of the World
News of the World 4.08 avg rating — 110,564 ratings
278.
Puella
Puella 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
278.
The Widow of the South
The Widow of the South 3.78 avg rating — 18,312 ratings
280.
The Complete Poems of James Dickey
The Complete Poems of James Dickey 4.71 avg rating — 31 ratings
280.
A Separate Country
A Separate Country 3.29 avg rating — 1,987 ratings
282.
James Dickey: The Selected Poems
James Dickey: The Selected Poems 3.96 avg rating — 103 ratings
282.
A Story of Deep Delight
A Story of Deep Delight 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
284.
The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945–1992
The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945–1992 4.27 avg rating — 142 ratings
285.
Buckdancer's Choice
Buckdancer's Choice 4.04 avg rating — 114 ratings
285.
Nightwoods
Nightwoods 3.66 avg rating — 14,848 ratings
287.
The James Dickey Reader
The James Dickey Reader 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
287.
My Dog Skip
My Dog Skip 4.02 avg rating — 2,177 ratings
289.
James Dickey Poems 1957-1967
James Dickey Poems 1957-1967 4.26 avg rating — 212 ratings
289.
My Cat Spit McGee: A Memoir
My Cat Spit McGee: A Memoir 3.96 avg rating — 1,097 ratings
291.
Taps
Taps 3.98 avg rating — 309 ratings
292.
James Dickey: The World as a Lie
James Dickey: The World as a Lie 3.79 avg rating — 53 ratings
292.
Southern Discomfort
Southern Discomfort 3.88 avg rating — 1,640 ratings
294.
Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon
Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon 4.37 avg rating — 2,021 ratings
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High Hearts
High Hearts 3.77 avg rating — 975 ratings
296.
How Far She Went: Stories
How Far She Went: Stories
by: Mary Hood
3.98 avg rating — 161 ratings
297.
And Venus Is Blue: Stories
And Venus Is Blue: Stories
by: Mary Hood
4.02 avg rating — 50 ratings
298.
Familiar Heat
Familiar Heat
by: Mary Hood
3.93 avg rating — 46 ratings
298.
The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living
The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living 3.54 avg rating — 957 ratings
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution 4.21 avg rating — 1,042 ratings
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