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Short stories in the genre of gothic fiction. See also Category:Horror short stories. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. S.
Southern Gothic is a subgenre of the Gothic writing style, unique to American literature. Pages in category "Southern Gothic short stories" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit". [2]
Examples of Southern Gothic plays include the Pulitzer Prize winner A Streetcar Named Desire (1948), the popular The Jacksonian (2014), and the Yale Prize winner Bottle Fly (2018). In addition, many Southern Gothic novels and short stories have been adapted for the stage by artists who are not the original authors.
The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story. amazon.com. $10.18. ... This collection compiles some of Poe's greatest short stories and poems, along with letters, articles, criticism.
The most influential Gothic writer from this period was the American Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote numerous short stories and poems reinterpreting Gothic tropes. His story "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) revisits classic Gothic tropes of aristocratic decay, death, and insanity. [59] Poe is now considered the master of the American Gothic. [1]
American Gothic Tales is an anthology of "gothic" American short fiction. Edited and with an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, it was published by Plume in 1996. It featured contributions by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, Anne Rice and others, and included over 40 stories. [1]
Raymond; a Fragment" is a short Gothic story published in 1799. Signed under the pseudonym Juvenis, it was reprinted, plagiarized, and served as the inspiration for other Gothic tales; it was likely inspired by a 1796 Gothic story.