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John berendt books6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The Southern Gothic has been an active literary mode since at least the end of the American Civil War, and novels of southern crime have been around as long. Whether they’re taking place in the steamy alleys of New Orleans, the oilfields of Texas and Oklahoma, or the Ozark mountains, stories of crime and horror in the South are almost always distinct from their counterparts set in the rest of the world. Lansdale and Cormac McCarthy, to name just a few. From the Southern Gothics of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor to their modern-day successors like Joe R. ![]() Books and movies taking place in the American South have always had a unique-and often haunting-character. ![]()
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