• 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-burie... [Read More]

    • 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-yea... [Read More]

    • 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—Hur... [Read More]

    • 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... [Read More]

    • 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... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B01N7EJ61A
    • ASIN: B01N7EJ61A
    • Manufacturer: Blue Crescent Press

  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil


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

  • The Road


    • 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�... [Read More]

    • 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 lef... [Read More]

    • 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... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B0755KSSVD
    • ASIN: B0755KSSVD
    • Manufacturer: Valancourt Books

  • The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)

    The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luk... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0143039989
    • ASIN: 0143039989
    • ISBN: 0143039989
    • Brand: Shirley Jackson
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • The Almost Sisters: A Novel

    With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality---the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really are.Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs’ weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman. It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuz... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B01M3QYT9U
    • ASIN: B01M3QYT9U
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • The Elementals

    "The finest writer of paperback originals in America." - Stephen King "Surely one of the most terrifying novels ever written." - Poppy Z. Brite "Beyond any trace of doubt, one of the best writers of horror in this or any other country." - Peter Straub "Readers of weak constitution should beware!" - Publishers Weekly "McDowell has a flair for the gruesome." - Washington Post After a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where three Victorian hous... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00KXAQ7NQ
    • ASIN: B00KXAQ7NQ
    • Manufacturer: Valancourt Books

  • The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek: A Novel

    From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality and creators of Good Mythical Morning, a thrilling and darkly funny novel about two best friends fighting the sinister forces at the heart of their Southern townIt’s 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina—a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and an unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town’s cheerful façade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to t... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1984822136
    • ASIN: 1984822136
    • ISBN: 1984822136
    • Manufacturer: Crown

  • The Complete Stories (FSG Classics)

    Winner of the National Book AwardThe publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0374515360
    • ASIN: 0374515360
    • ISBN: 0374515360
    • Brand: Noonday Press
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • The Bourbon Thief : A Southern Gothic Novel

    "A family with bourbon in the blood, and blood on their hands."--Front

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • UPC: 53405410

  • Southern Gothic - eBook

    Times are rough for Max and Sandra. The resurrected Tucker Hull has reduced them to living in a trailer and taken away any decent income they could find. The ghost detective, Marshall Drummond, refuses to

    • UPC: 355696559

  • Mercy (A Southern Gothic Short Story) - eBook

    In this Southern Gothic short, a sheltered, impoverished teenager seeks to impress a neighbor boy, with destructive results. This story explores poverty, neglect, mental illness, and misogyny in rural Appalachia. This story originally appeared in

    • UPC: 415813000

  • Big John: The Hick from Hell - Southern Fried Gothic Western Horror Stories - eBook

    Four Weird Western Horror Stories...from the South!Big John is a black hat-wearing, six-shooter packing, moonshine drinking, lying son of a bitch, who resides in a cowless backwater in Mississippi.Did I mention that Big John looks

    • UPC: 957967748

  • Best of Gothic - eBook

    Die Kinder der Nacht faszinieren die Menschen bereits seit Jahrhunderten. Drei der schönsten Gothicnovellen aus verschiedenen Zeitaltern von Carola Kickers finden sich in diesem Ebook, die teilweise als Hörbuch bereits veröffentlicht

    • UPC: 938216413

  • Southern Gothic and Other Stories - eBook

    A collection of short stories set mostly in piedmont North Carolina. Stories about the eccentric wife of a former movie star living on stories of the past in her crumbling mansion, a young man who

    • UPC: 409416783

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

    What is the Southern Gothic?

    To Kill a Mockingbird and the Southern Gothic Tradition