Looking for Southern Gothic that isn't Faulkner or O'Connor

Yeah. I know it may not be a popular opinion, but I think it's McCarthy's darkest, most atmospherically oppressive book, far more than The Road.

Thomas Wolfe is Faulkner's superior and successor. Died very young.

NEGATIVE, NEGATIVE

OP, if you want Faulkner and O'Connor, go with Suttree. Much closer to their feel.

>Southern Gothic
Corncobby provincialism t b h, lad.

I didn't like Look Homeward, Angel at all, especially once Gant went to college. Are any of his books better than that?
Also is Gone With The Wind actually good, or do people just remember the book because of the movie?

>Flaubert, Sartre, Proust
Frog-eating provincialism
>Homer, Greek Mythology
Chiton-wearing, homoerotic, pedophilic provincialism
>Bible
Dick-cutting, patata-pancake provincialism
>Sumerian texts
Clay-poking, goat-fucking provincialism
>Dante, Petrarch, Ovid, Virgil
Pasta-eating, political commentary-having, overly nationalistic provincialism

Being retarded is fun, user, why didn't you let us in on your secret earlier?

almost anything by Eudora Welty

Faulkner

Toni Morrison's song of Solomon

but really...there is no one quite like o'connor

oops. in mulling over some names I forgot you said no Faulkner as well.

Oil - Upton Sinclair

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This. It pretty much started the genre. It even has a crumbling plantation mansion.

wtf no

Gaddis, Flannery O'Connor, John K. Toole.
This so much. Why does no one ever talk about Walker Percy?

Too Western, too Sinclair.

>Toni Morrison

kys

Read Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Another recommendation for Suttree. It is really on another level from the rest of McCarthy's work, really an amazing novel.

forgot pict

Also OP this probably isnt helpful but if you feel like childrens literature pic related is a great choice.

I haven;t read them in years so they may not have aged well but they were amazing as a kid.

At least buy them for you own kids

Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina might be what you're looking for.
Also surprised no one has said it but any Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof especially. I wouldn't go as far as calling Stoner Southern Gothic, as it isn't really grandly gruesome or nature-driven but the painful melancholic realism might still be of interest, set among both Southern elite and the agrarian class.

Tony Earley is a pretty good contemporary Southern writer too.

Oh also check out anything from Black Mountain College's former staff, a lot of that will probably fit into what you want. Also Omensetter's Luck is in Ohio and not necessarily Southern geographically but feels a lot like a Southern Gothic Faulkner story written in the style of the Sandymount Strand chapter, it's what I think of as the inverse of Absalom, Absalom!

Fuck yeah this book is great

Southern Gothic is such a vapid genre title that has no distinguishing or shared traits. Just say American writers from the South.

both excellent recs
child of god >>> outer dark imo

>It pretty much started the genre
it pretty much did not

No, Southern Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction. It tends to be written by Catholics from the American South, but that's secondary.

Cormac McCarthy is from fucking Providence, Rhode Island. His corncobbery is all an act.

>catholics from the american south
Uhhhh... name one other than O'Connor. What is with Veeky Forums and this hipster Catholicism meme.

Both books rank among McCarthy's finest work.

"The rope drew taut and the first of the dead sat up on the cave floor, the hands that hauled the rope above sorting the shadows like puppeteers. Gray soapy clots of matter fell from the cadaver's chin. She ascended dangling. She sloughed in the weem of the noose. A grey rheum dripped."

He moved to Tennessee very young. And it's not an act. Suttree is basically about a middle class educated dude deciding to live amongst a bunch of dumb hillbillies and do hard labor. He pretty much lived in poverty until he started getting literary grants.

In cold Blood

Damn, son you've got that corncob stuck up there good don't you? Maybe YeCarthy will rim it out of the cold autortillaistic inner dank of your anus for you.

Agree with you both - in my opinion Outer Dark is the better of the pair, but it may be due to its being written sub specie aeternitatis, reading it is like reading the eternal, unchanging suffering of man. I don't really know how to explain it, but the dryness of the environment, the aphasic characters, the nameless, faceless fiends... It conveyed the recurrance of pain throughout all eternity much better than any one of his other novels (though, admittedly, I still have to read Suttree and I've heard it's amazing so I'll suspend my judgement for now).

>inb4 edgy
By suffering and pain I mean one of the, maybe, essential facets of humanity, our being subject (as bodies and, therefore, minds) to what is external and outside of our power - which is one of the oldest and more poignant themes of human reflection.

Where are you going, where have you been? by Joyce Carol Oates reminds me of O'Connor

Pic related is a bit Faulkner-esque.

Its about a mute in the deep south soo

>Toni Morrison's song of Solomon
You're an idiot.

Ayy, I remember this

>Flannery O'connor
>Walker Percy
>Cormac Mccarthy

So only all of the most important SG authors (excluding Faulker)
Have you ever considered not being retarded?

That book was the shit
I loved it

Seconding McCullers

The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories is also good.