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** While he largely avoided discussing slavery directly in any of his surviving writings, many of Poe's fictional works ("The Black Cat", "Hop-Frog", ''Literature/TheNarrativeOfArthurGordonPymOfNantucket''...) have nevertheless been read by scholars as oblique commentaries on race relations in the antebellum U.S.--a primary theme of later Southern Gothic literature. Whether they were consciously intended to be taken this way, on the other hand, is impossible to say for sure.
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* ''Literature/SharpObjects'' is a Southern Gothic set in the twenty-first century. The protagonist is the BlackSheep of a rich and affluent family, who returns to her home town amidst a backdrop of murders, violence and dark family secrets.
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* ''Film/MillersGirl'': The film is set in Tennessee, with the protagonist Cairo Sweet being unhappy at her small town life. She lives in a vast, crumbling mansion, starting an affair with her teacher at her best friend's urging, which draws them both into dark aspects of their natures. The woods nearby are said to be dangerous and possibly haunted, as part of the story's setting.
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* ''Literature/RedDragon'' has elements of this with its title character, a SerialKiller who lives in the crumbling Missouri retirement home once owned by his abusive grandmother, who operated the place as a retirement home. Although the book is, in many ways, a very contemporary and gritty novel, the killer's traumatic backstory is played in extremely Gothic terms.
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* ''Literature/RedDragon'' has elements of this with its title character, a SerialKiller who lives in the crumbling Missouri retirement home mansion once owned by his abusive grandmother, who operated the place as a retirement home. Although the book is, in many ways, a very contemporary and gritty novel, the killer's [[FreudianExcuse traumatic backstory backstory]] is played in extremely Gothic terms.
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* "The Legend of Wooley Swamp" by Music/TheCharlieDanielsBand is about a swamp haunted by the ghost of a rich man who had been murdered by a couple of "white trash" rednecks who wanted to steal his money and feed his corpse to the alligators. The ghost, however, was determined to [[TakingYouWithMe take his killers with him]], so the spirit dragged his killers into the quicksand.
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Removed Children of the Corn, which is set in Nebraska and therefore, not Southern Gothic
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* ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn1984'' is a rare non-Southern example (it's set in Nebraska) with an Amish feel; however, the decay, staring unnatural inhabitants and eerie isolation are still present.
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* Creator/MichaelMcDowell's ''Literature/{{Blackwater}}'' books, a GenerationalSaga set in a fictionalized version of Perdido, Alabama, detailing a power struggle between the [[MyBelovedSmother domineering matriarch]] of the town's richest family and her mysterious daughter-in-law, who is secretly [[FishPeople some kind of water monster]].
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* Creator/MichaelMcDowell's ''Literature/{{Blackwater}}'' books, a GenerationalSaga set in a fictionalized version of Perdido, Alabama, detailing a power struggle between the [[MyBelovedSmother domineering matriarch]] of the town's richest family and her mysterious daughter-in-law, who is secretly [[FishPeople some kind of water monster]].monster]] in [[VoluntaryShapeshifting human form]].
* ''Literature/RedDragon'' has elements of this with its title character, a SerialKiller who lives in the crumbling Missouri retirement home once owned by his abusive grandmother, who operated the place as a retirement home. Although the book is, in many ways, a very contemporary and gritty novel, the killer's traumatic backstory is played in extremely Gothic terms.
* ''Literature/RedDragon'' has elements of this with its title character, a SerialKiller who lives in the crumbling Missouri retirement home once owned by his abusive grandmother, who operated the place as a retirement home. Although the book is, in many ways, a very contemporary and gritty novel, the killer's traumatic backstory is played in extremely Gothic terms.
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Doesn't fit the trope; Southern Gothic Rock isn't a genre
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* Music/MarilynManson's ''The Pale Emperor'' has a strong influence from southern gothic rock.
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