Thursday, October 10, 2019

Ten notable titles in gothic fiction

Kate Racculia is a novelist living in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She is the author of the novels This Must Be the Place and Bellweather Rhapsody, winner of the American Library Association’s Alex Award.

Her new novel is Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts.

At CrimeReads, Kate Racculia tagged ten gothic fiction titles that meant something to her, including:
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor

This collection is dark af all the way through, but the eponymous story, with its roadside family murder, is a master class in voice, character, suspense, what you can get away with—and desperately morbid comic timing. The Addams Family first crystallized my appreciation for black humor, but O’Connor taught me how to level up.
Read about the other entries on the list.

A Good Man Is Hard to Find is among Melissa Albert's sixteen most indispensable books of the 1950s and Tina Jordan's top ten books.

--Marshal Zeringue