Recs if you like Child of God...

A list of 100 gothic classics which covers over 250 years of literature, from the high-drama castles of the 1700s to the psychological "New Gothic" of today.

For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.

More to come!

Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!

Family Secrets. Decay. Death. Rebirth.

Books set firmly in the Southern Gothic genre or books that incorporate Southern Gothic elements.

A list of Banned or Censored books (from around the world) that I want to read and form my own opinions about...

Tier 3 of the Disturbing Novel Icberg. Stories are more graphic with darker themes.

Note: some books are missing due to lack of access.

God loves you, but not enough to save you from these stories. Ethel Cain & Preacher’s Daughter vibes/inspired fiction

A comprehensive list from Dr. Rebecca Marks (ig:culture_dumper). Includes English, American, Irish, Scottish, German, French, Spanish and Latin American Gothic stories.

lots of gore and/or taboo topics trying to add mostly based off what i’ve read

Books of all genres set in and focused on the Appalachian Mountains!

List named in honor of the women who rode on horseback to bring books to remote mountain regions during the Great Depression, this list now brings books out of the mountains to all of us.

Bite-sized books you can read in a single sitting.

Books that feel like, “I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.” — Flannery O’Connor AND “Let us take a knife and cut the world in two—and see what worms are eating at the rind.” — Langston Hughes

TLDR; The southern gothic, the grit lit, the darkened, beautiful, rotten, heady places of the South.

featuring dysfunctional families, troubled relationships with religion, underlying decay, the southern gothic, and just a sprinkling of cannibalism

Grimdark is about the dirt, the blood, and the crushing weight of reality in a world where "might is right." The genre takes its name from the tagline of 'Warhammer 40,000': "In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war." Here is a list of 100 essential Grimdark works including standalone novels, series starters, and graphic novels.

booked i enjoyed but also found extremely disturbing

Cormac McCarthy

Ethel Cain + True Detective (S1) vibes