Southern gothic writing

Mississippi Gothic by @poetiicus

Georgia gothic

25 - they/them

Appalachian Gothic < not my post // as an Appalachian American, I love this. (Bonus points for no mention of inbred!)

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West coast gothic

Southern Gothic < not my image

Photo by Ashley Knedler on Unsplash I'd honestly love to see more Gothics set in the American South. So, I'm hoping to spark some writerly imaginations by providing a list of Southern and Appalachian Gothic elements. It would even be great to see some of these elements in a Dark Fantasy, Gothic Romance or some other unexpected Dark Fiction. Here's to your journey into the deeply dark and at times grotesque, but always disturbing, world of the Southern Gothic. Settings Decaying Plantations…

Alabama Gothic

Southern Gothic, Rickey Laurentiis

Midwest Gothic sparklyandheroic - At night you hear coyotes howling and deer screaming. At night you hear trains in the distance. At night you hear frogs. The worst nights are the ones where there are no sounds at all. - You let your dog outside, on a tether, so he can't run off. He stares out at the field behind your house, and further, at the woods behind it. You see nothing. You're glad. It's worse when you see what's out there - The cats have caught something and dropped it on your back…

Regional midwestern southern gothic written by me