On southern gothic literature -- Contexts. Defining southern gothic -- "Dark legacy": gothic ruptures in southern literature -- Flannery O'Connor and Harry Crews get naked -- The road beyond zombies of the new south -- Critical readings. Charles W. Chesnutt's Tennessee Williams's Suddenly last summer -- "Fantastic terrors never felt before": southern gothic poetry -- Cthulhu visits the south, or Fred Chappell's Three levels of dagon -- Gothic fear and anxiety in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree -- "Anything dead coming back to life hurts": the double murder of Beloved.
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