Southern Gothic novels

novel by Harper Lee

1929 novel by William Faulkner

1996 novel by Stephen King

novel by William Faulkner

novel by Toni Morrison

novel by William Faulkner

1982 novel by Alice Walker

1936 novel by William Faulkner

1980 novel by John Kennedy Toole

1940 novel by Carson McCullers

2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer

novel by William Faulkner

Sartoris is a Southern Gothic novel, first published in 1929, by the American author William Faulkner. It portrays the decay of the Mississippi aristocracy following the social upheaval of the American Civil War. The 1929 edition is an abridged version of Faulkner's original work. The full text was published in 1973 as Flags in the Dust. Faulkner's great-grandfather William Clark Falkner, himself a colonel in the American Civil War, served as the model for Colonel John Sartoris. Faulkner also fashioned other characters in the book on local people from his hometown Oxford. His friend Ben Wasson

novel by Truman Capote

1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell

1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell

1952 novel by Flannery O'Connor

novel by Thomas Wolfe

novel by Davis Grubb

non-fiction novel by John Berendt

novel written by Donald Ray Pollock