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https://www.amazon.com/stores/Damon-Thomas/author/B09WTT6GPP?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=ebe73053-345f-4fb1-9747-07e2ed850448
Happy Birthday to @ruralgloom a southern gothic writer with tales weird and strange about small towns of the south! Celebrate his special day by grabbing some books, and even some comic books!
#southerngothic #books #indiebooks #reading #literature

Would you explore this abandoned #barn ? Or do you think some paranormal creature is inhabiting it? #country #rustic #southerngothic #dilapidated

Lighting the Dark South: Reclaiming Representation in Southern Gothic https://www.writersdigest.com/lighting-the-dark-south-reclaiming-representation-in-southern-gothic #AuthenticRepresentation #RepresentationInFiction #southerngothicnovel #WriteBetterFiction #Neurodivergent #SouthernGothic #Character #Settings #LGBTQIA+

"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" is a #SouthernGothic #murderBallad, written in 1972 by songwriter #BobbyRussell and first recorded by his then-wife, singer, comedian and actress, #VickiLawrence. Lawrence's version, from her 1973 album of the same title, went to number one on the US #Billboard Hot 100 chart after its release. Of several #coverVersions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-qK7oVXVRQ

Laura Venita Green: Promoting a Book Is Different From Writing One https://www.writersdigest.com/laura-venita-green-promoting-a-book-is-different-from-writing-one #Writer'sDigestAuthorSpotlight #AuthorSpotlightSeries #southerngothicnovel #WriteBetterFiction #AuthorSpotlights #AuthorSpotlight #SouthernFiction #SouthernGothic #BeInspired #Interviews #Literary #Genre

Life Isn’t Always Fair.
Scenes from the long road back South — a shirt, a cotton field, a store, a newspaper, a lone goose.
🔗 https://gram.social/p/eshuelegbara/877076453159056986
#SouthernGothic #Photography #Justice #Identity

🐺 A new poem

For anyone who’s ever worn the wrong skin,
bit their own tongue,
or forgotten how to howl.

Sheepish Wolf and Hollering Dogs
by Raphael Hythloday/Wittgenstein's Monster/Eshu Elegbara/Clint

Once upon a time there was a wolf
that dreamed he was a sheep
While he slept a deep sleep,
he forgot how to leap.

#poetry #SouthernGothic #MirrorCycle #wolves #identity #resistance #queerSolidarity #MastoPoets

New post just dropped on Substack:

🐐 The GOAT Samaritan
Neil deGrasse Tyson walks by.
Brady nods, but keeps going.
Madonna smiles, faintly.
And only the real goat stops—and offers him milk.

This is a modern parable. A myth for our moment. A mirror.
(And yeah, it bleats back.)

✍️https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/the-goat-samaritan

#Mythologies #Barthes #SouthernGothic #GOAT #CulturalCriticism #Homelessness #Substack #AltTextIncluded

the itsy bitsy spider
wove his web too well
down came the fascist
to wash the spider out

but the spider had a plan
he rhymed it to you now
the itsy bitsy spider
said: death to fascists.

📸: Caught this Joro spider weaving a masterpiece in the Georgia sun.
We don't run. We spin. We trap. We bite.

#ItsyBitsySpider #DeathToFascists #NaturePoetry #SpiderPoem #SouthernGothic #AntifascistArt #AthensGA

A Joro spider rests at the center of her web, suspended between green grass and brown forest floor. Her legs are long and striped in black and yellow, and the intricate web glimmers in sunlight. The spider’s calm stillness hides deadly precision—her trap is perfect.

I don’t know if I want to be saved.
But I do want to be seen.
And isn’t that the same thing?

#Poetry #SouthernGothic #FaithAndDoubt #Communion #Exvangelical #ReligiousTrauma #LiturgicallyConfused #AltLit #SubstackWriters

(Black Sheep's Prayer continued)

Lead us not into culture war debates,
But deliver us from unsolicited sermons.

For thine is the mileage,
And the Chick-fil-A stops,
And the five-hour forced family fellowship,
Amen.

🖤
#BlackSheepChronicles #Roadtrippians #QueerChristianHumor #SouthernGothic #FamilyRoadTrip #EvangelicalSurvivalGuide

Wer die Nachtigall Stört von Harper Lee: Ein Gerichtssaal, eine Kindheit – und die Zerreißprobe eines Ortes https://www.lesering.de/id/4941581/-wer-die-nachtigall-stoert-rezension-zusammenfassung-analyse/ #AmericanClassic #SouthernGothic #Buchrezension #Coming-of-Age #Buchrezension #HarperLee #Rassismus

🩸 True Blood (2008–2014): The Vampire Revival That Bled Into Everything

Step back into Bon Temps with Southern Gothic swagger, supernatural drama, and the sultry chaos that made True Blood a pop culture phenomenon.

#TrueBlood #VampireSeries #SouthernGothic #HBO #TVThrowback #NostalgiaTV #PopCulture #Fangbangers #AnnaPaquin #AlexanderSkarsgard #TV #TV News #television #Entertainment #Entertainmentnews #Celebrities #Celebrity

https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/2025/09/07/true-blood-the-vampire-revival-that-bled-into-everything/

This right here—a tall glass of water—is my brightest pride and whitest joy.
The spiders crawled over him, webbing and refracting a boy.
Praying with words like a game, but that was the ploy—
as he hummed away like a king, but really only was a bae.

#poetry #SouthernGothic #mirrorverse #writing #mythmaking #lit

I'm introverted and not good at networking. So I release books with a modicum of marketing skill and hope they hit with an audience. I'm grateful when they do.

My latest is a psychosocial Southern Gothic horror tale about anxiety, OCD, and discovering who you are.

https://books2read.com/tabs-terrible-third-eye
https://scary.ink/Ok

#TabsTerribleThirdEye #IsaacThorne #horror #SouthernGothic #PsychoSocial #novel #amwritinghorror #horrorbooks #horrornerd #horrorstory #writerdon #horrornerd

Paperback copy of TAB'S TERRIBLE THIRD EYE with an ebook copy of the same book on an iPhone propped against it. A QR code leading to https://www.isaacthorne.com/product/tabs-terrible-third-eye is in the upper right corner.

@Teyrnon

What is the most Southern Gothic thing I can think of?

Sweet Olive Cemetery, Baton Rouge Louisiana. A historically Black cemetery, tragically neglected, not a stone's throw from the State Capitol.

Thousands of people are buried in this tiny plot, eight, nine bodies deep. Nobody wanted to do the upkeep, it's become the most horrific outpost of segregation I know.

#SouthernGothic
#Gothic
#Horror