Recs if you like Midwestern Gothic...

"What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight." — Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love

Fiction that embodies the experience of being Midwestern and full of big feelings: depression, yearning, being lost in a cornfield

All those books that have a place name and the word Gothic. In case you need a little bit of Gothic closer to home (or farther away...)

Note that I haven't read all of these

Books that have won the Shirley Jackson Award for outstanding achievement in the literature of horror, the dark fantastic, and psychological suspense.