“Teddy Perkins” begins with a simple quest for a used piano; by the end, it’s invented its own genre, the half-hour Southern Gothic satirical psychodrama.

Source: https://slate.com/culture/2023/09/best-stand-alone-episodes-tv-television-writers-showrunners-recommendations.html?via=rss

This Southern Gothic is full of nightmares, romance and dark fairy tale magic.

Source: https://observer.com/2023/10/best-halloween-books-monsters-scary/

"Wildcat" will tell the story of 20th-century Southern writer Flannery O'Connor, whose disturbing, religion-fueled Southern Gothic stories like "A Good Man is Hard To Find" and the novel "Wise Blood" remain literary mainstays to this day.

Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1175981/ethan-hawke-to-direct-daughter-maya-hawke-in-flannery-oconnor-biopic-wildcat/