08-14-2008, 04:00 AM
paigenumber Wrote:I think the Old South is also another very appropriate setting for Gothics, especially historic ones. I think the "Southern Gothics" tend to take place in historic towns like Williamsburg and Charleston. Very nice settings.
I agree with this too -- there are few locales are as ideal for a gothic novel as an old plantation mouldering under the gloom of live oaks dripping with Spanish moss, and slowly being dismantled by kudzu . . .