Recs if you like Child of God...
100 Gothic Classics
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.
Bleakness Is My Weakness
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!
Baptized in Southern Gothic
Family Secrets. Decay. Death. Rebirth.
Books set firmly in the Southern Gothic genre or books that incorporate Southern Gothic elements.
The Big List of Banned or Censored Books
A list of Banned or Censored books (from around the world) that I want to read and form my own opinions about...
Southern Gothic
Disturbing Novel Iceberg - Tier 3
Tier 3 of the Disturbing Novel Icberg. Stories are more graphic with darker themes.
Note: some books are missing due to lack of access.
Sun Bleached Flies
God loves you, but not enough to save you from these stories. Ethel Cain & Preacher’s Daughter vibes/inspired fiction
A Comprehensive List of Gothic Literature
A comprehensive list from Dr. Rebecca Marks (ig:culture_dumper). Includes English, American, Irish, Scottish, German, French, Spanish and Latin American Gothic stories.
the gross and horrifying
lots of gore and/or taboo topics trying to add mostly based off what i’ve read
Short Reads
Bite-sized books you can read in a single sitting.
Christ-Haunted South
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.
100 Grimdark Masterpieces
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.
what the f***
booked i enjoyed but also found extremely disturbing
Southern Gothic
Pack Horse Library Project
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.
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy
Southern Gothic
Ethel Cain + True Detective (S1) vibes
This is Appalachia
