Find Your Next SGF Read

  • Ariail, Gregory - The Gospel of Rot: A Novel

  • Bledsoe, Alex - The Hum and the Shiver (Review) (60/35/5)(WH)

  • Beeman, Rita - Mabel Murkwood and the Overly Familiar

  • Buehlman, Christopher - Those Across the River

  • Clark, P. Djèlí - Ring Shout

  • Davidson, Andy - The Boatman's Daughter

  • Elmendorf, Dana - In the Hour of Crows

  • Harris, Charlaine - The Southern Vampire Mysteries

  • Harrow, Alix E. - Starling House (Review) (40/55/5) (WH)

  • Hendrix, Grady - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

  • Jacobs, John Horner - Southern Gods

  • Kingfisher, T. - A House With Good Bones

  • Martin, George R.R. - Fevre Dream

  • McGough, Bob - The Redemption of Howard Marsh Series

  • McCammon, Robert - Boy's Life

  • McDowell, Michael - The Elementals, Blackwater (Review) (60/20/20)

  • Meeks, Ben - The Keeper Chronicles

  • Prewitt, Ellen Morris - When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women

  • Priest, Cherie - Eden Moore Trilogy

  • Young, Adrienne - The Unmaking of June Farrow: A Novel

Below are books we consider to be Southern Gothic Fantasy. Those books that we have reviewed, will have a link to said review, as well as the rating. Each rating is in the following format: (SG/F/H). Each number corresponds to what percentage we feel the book pulls from one of those three pillars. (WH) Indicates that the book features a Waffle House.

Horror Reads

  • Kiernan, Caitlin R. - Threshold, Low Red Moon

  • Kingfisher, T. - The Twisted Ones

  • McQueen, LaTanya - When the Reckoning Comes

  • Priest, Cherie - Cinderwich, The Toll, The Family Plot

Some books are horror novels first, and Southern Gothic Fantasy second. For those books that fit that criteria, we list them here, since not everyone is a big horror fan:

Short Stories, Novellas, and Anthologies

  • Ariail, Gregory - Hermits Die on Thursday: Stories of Appalachia and the Dark Ages

  • Cox, F Brett, Duncan, Andy (Editors) - Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic

  • Telep, Trisha (Editor) - The Mammoth Book Of Southern Gothic Romance (Mammoth Books)

In the mood for something a little shorter? Check out these short stories and collections of works.

Poetry

  • Kidd, Jessica Fordham - Bad Jamie

In the mood for some poetry? Check out these collections.

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