Southern Gothic

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Notable works

Literature

• Sartoris and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
• Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe (1929)
• As I Lay Dying and "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner (1930)
• Sanctuary by William Faulkner (1931)
• Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell (1932)
• Light in August by William Faulkner (1932)
• God's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell (1933)
• Pylon and "Uncle Willy" by William Faulkner (1935)
• Kneel to the Rising Sun by Erskine Caldwell (1935)
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (1936)
• "Black Canaan" by Robert E. Howard (1936)
• You Have Seen Their Faces by Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke White (1937)
• The Unvanquished by William Faulkner (1938)
• "Pigeons from Hell" by Robert E. Howard (1938)
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (1940)
• "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty (1940)
• The Hamlet by William Faulkner (1940)
• Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers (1941)
• A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty (1941)
• Go Down, Moses and "Two Soldiers" by William Faulkner (1942)
• The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty (1942)
• "Shingles for the Lord" by William Faulkner (1943)
• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (1944)
• The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (1946)
• 27 Wagons Full of Cotton by Tennessee Williams (1946)
• "The Geranium" by Flannery O'Connor (1946)
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (Pulitzer Prize award) (1947)
• Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote (1948)
• Summer and Smoke and The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams (1948)
• Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner (1948)
• The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers (1951)
• Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner (1951)
• The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams (1951)
• Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor (1952)
• The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb (1953)
• A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor (1955)
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (Pulitzer Prize award) (1955)
• Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams (1957)
• The Town by William Faulkner (1957)
• Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennessee Williams (1958)
• The Mansion by William Faulkner (1959)
• Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams (1959)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Pulitzer Prize Award) (1960)
• The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor (1960)
• The Reivers by William Faulkner (Pulitzer Prize award) (1962)
• The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy (1965)
• Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor (1965)
• Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy (1968)
• Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor (1969)
• Deliverance by James Dickey (1970)
• Geronimo Rex by Barry Hannah (1972)
• The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Pulitzer Prize award) (1972)
• Suttree by Cormac McCarthy (1979)
• The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor (1979)
• Lancelot by Walker Percy (1978)
• Ray by Barry Hannah (1980)
• Locked In Time by Lois Duncan (1985)
• Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair by Lewis Nordan (1983)
• Oral History by Lee Smith (1983)
• The Tennis Handsome by Barry Hannah (1983)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Pulitzer Prize award) (1987)
• And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave (1989)
• The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole (1989)
• Fiends by John Farris (1990)
• Joe by Larry Brown (1992)
• The Witching Hour by Anne Rice (1993)
• In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke (1993)
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (1994)
• The Sharpshooter Blues by Lewis Nordan (1995)
• Bats out of Hell by Barry Hannah (1995)
• The Green Mile by Stephen King (1996)
• A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews (1998)
• The Long Home by William Gay (1999)
• Tideland by Mitch Cullin (2000)
• A Fine Dark Line by Joe R. Lansdale (2000)
• Provinces of Night by William Gay (2000)
• Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah (2001)
• The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris (2001)
• The Little Friend by Donna Tartt (2002)
• The Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli (2003)
• Sunset and Sawdust by Joe R. Lansdale (2004)
• Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest (2005)
• Gather at the River: Notes From the Post Millennial South by Hal Crowther (2005)
• November Mourns by Tom Piccirilli (2005)
• Wings to the Kingdom by Cherie Priest (2006)
• Not Flesh 'Nor Feathers and Dreadful Skin by Cherie Priest (2007)
• The Shadows, Kith and Kin and Lost Echoes by Joe R. Lansdale (2007)
• Hume's Fork by Ron Cooper (2007)
• Tennyson by Lesley M.M. Blume (2008)
• Firefly Rain by Richard Dansky ()
• Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (2009)
• Purple Jesus by Ron Cooper (2010)
• Snakewoman of Little Egypt by Robert Hellenga (2010)
• The Pugilist's Wife by David Armand (Winner of the 2010 George Garrett Fiction Prize) (2011)
• Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs (2011)

Films

• The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
• Romance of the Limberlost (1938)
• Son of Dracula (1943)
• Intruder in the Dust (1949)
• The Glass Menagerie (1950)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Best Picture nom.)
• The Rose Tattoo (1955)
• The Night of the Hunter (1955)
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958, Best Picture nom.)
• The Defiant Ones (1958, Best Picture nom.)
• The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
• The Tarnished Angels (1958)
• God's Little Acre (1958)
• The Fugitive Kind (1959)
• The Sound and the Fury (1959)
• Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
• Desire in the Dust (1960)
• Summer and Smoke (1961)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Best Picture nom.)
• Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
• Cape Fear (1962)
• Toys in the Attic (1963)
• Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
• This Property is Condemned (1966)
• The Chase (1966)
• Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
• The Reivers (1969)
• Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)
• The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
• The Beguiled (1971)
• Deliverance (1972, Best Picture nom.)
• The Sugarland Express (1974)
• Days of Heaven (1978)
• Wise Blood (1979)
• The Beyond (1981)
• Southern Comfort (1981)
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984, television remake)
• Down By Law (1986)
• No Mercy (1986)
• Angel Heart (1987)
• Sweet Bird of Youth (1989, television remake)
• Wild At Heart (1990)
• The Reflecting Skin (1990)
• Scorchers (1991)
• Cape Fear (1991, remake)
• The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
• My Name Is Mud (1993, music video)
• The Neon Bible (1995)
• The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995)
• Dead Man Walking (1995)
• Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
• Sling Blade (1996)
• Eve's Bayou (1997)
• Eye of God (1997)
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
• The Gingerbread Man (1998)
• Wayward Son (1999)
• George Washington (2000)
• The Gift (2000)
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
• Two Soldiers (2003, short)
• Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2003, doc)
• The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
• Undertow (2004)
• A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
• Dead Birds (2004)
• The Skeleton Key (2005)
• The King (2005)
• Tideland (2005)
• Loren Cass (2006)
• Things That Hang from Trees (2006)
• The Reaping (2007)
• Black Snake Moan (2007)
• Hounddog (2007)
• No Country for Old Men (2007)
• Midnight Bayou (2009)
• That Evening Sun (2009)
• Provinces of Night, also known as Bloodworth (2010)
• Winter's Bone (2010)

Television

• American Gothic (TV series) (CBS, 1995–1996)
• True Blood (HBO, 2008–)
• The Heart, She Holler (Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim 2011–)

Music

• The Legendary Shack Shakers
• Pinebox Serenade
• The Builders and the Butchers
• Ode to Billie Joe
• The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

See also

• Southern Ontario Gothic
• African American literature
• Southern literature
• Southern Renaissance
• Suburban Gothic
• Tasmanian Gothic
• Magical realism

External links

• The Southern Literary Trail features the major fiction writers from the South during the 20th Century.