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Gothic is not a dirty-word!

	Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage Classics) by William Faulkner Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £1.37 William Faulkner wrote many great novels in the Southern Gothic tradition, the best include this, The Sound & the Fury, Light in August & Sanctuary....
	The Night Of The Hunter [DVD] [1955] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.49 The only film directed by Charles Laughton has a brilliant performance from Robert Mitchum. Simon Callow's book on it is excellent also....
	Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor Buy used from: £2.45 Another key writer of the Southern Gothic Tradition, and her one novel- later filmed by John Huston. Her short-stories are equally brilliant-
	And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave Buy used from: £4.72 Cave's demented advance on Faulkner & O'Connor, a bit like 'Light in August' on drugs, written by an Australian in West Berlin. See songs like 'Swampland' & 'Deep in the Woods'
	Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (Picador Books) by Cormac McCarthy Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £3.08 McCarthy's masterpiece - a haunting and bleak vision of the West. Rumours abound that Ridley Scott will direct a film of it - the horror! the horror!
	Whiskey for the Holy Ghost by Mark Lanegan Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £4.95 One of Lanegan's several solo-classics : Carnival, Dead on You, Shooting Gallery, The River Rise....A post-grunge Johnny Cash, if you must!
	Wisconsin Death Trip [1999] [DVD] Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £29.79 Brilliant documentary that seems to me extremely unappreciated!
	Fire of Love by The Gun Club Buy used from: £21.13 File next to Hallowed Ground, The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads, Dust & Liberty Belle & the Black Diamond Express....
	The Seventh Seal [DVD] [1957] Buy new: £12.98 / Used from: £5.75 This film always cheers me up! : plague, religion, death, witch-burnings, self-flagellation...who could not love this?
	Teenage Snuff Film by Rowland S. Howard Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £7.13 Excellent solo-album from ex-Birthday Party/Crime & the City Solution/These Immortal Soul/Boy Next Door-Howard. Features the ever wonderful Mick Harvey-
	The Killer Inside Me (Crime Masterworks) by Jim Thompson Buy used from: £18.91 Noir-gothic-murder....
	Deliverance [1972] [DVD] Buy new: £5.67 / Used from: £1.23 If you go down to the woods today....weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhh!!!!!!!
	Hallowed Ground by Violent Femmes Buy new: £13.19 / Used from: £2.78 .....
	The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (English Library) by James Hogg Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.62 .....
	The Spiral Staircase [DVD] [1946] Buy used from: £3.91 A classic thriller....
	Closer by Joy Division Buy new: £6.88 / Used from: £4.25 This is here not only due to songs like The Eternal & Decades, and its posthumous-associations, but also for the sleeve artwork from Bernard Pierre Wolff....
	Already Dead by Denis Johnson Buy used from: £0.01 Johnson's California gothic featuring cops, witches, murderers & drug-dealers. When will David Lynch film this?????
	Ballad of the Broken Seas by Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.87 Nancy'n'Lee collide with Cash & Rubin.....
	The Marble Index by Nico Buy new: £10.29 / Used from: £3.79 You have to include this....
	Tilt by Scott Walker Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £2.00 ....and no list should be without this, if you can help it!
	The Beguiled [VHS] [1970] Buy used from: £0.01 This and 'High Plains Drifter' are Eastwood at his most gothic....
	John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan Buy new: £5.18 / Used from: £2.89 Dylan's most gothic work, some of the songs having a Biblical-element
	The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Iain Banks' cult-classic always stands up, even if his best novel remains The Bridge....
	The Collector (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £0.87 Fowles' book owes Hogg's Justified Sinner a debt structure wise; the kind of obssessive girls just don't want from me! You wait, I have my lottery-ticket!!!!!
	Cat People [1942] [VHS] Buy used from: £9.99 I do like the remake, as I have that thing about Nastassia Kinski - but this is the better film & shared a set with The Magnificent Ambersons....