War South. Villains who disguise themselves as innocents or victims are often found in Southern Gothic literature, especially stories by Flannery O'Connor, such as "Good Country People" and "The Life You Save May Be Your Own", giving us a blurred line between victim and villain. Southern Gothic literature set out to expose the myth of old Antebellum South, and its narrative of an idyllic past hidden by social, familial, and racial denials and suppressions. Authors V. C. Andrews (1923–1986) Dorothy Allison (b. 1949) Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) Poppy Z. Brite (b. 1967) Larry Brown (1951–2004) Erskine Caldwell (1903–1987) Truman Capote (1924–1984, early works) Fred Chappell (b. 1936) Brainard Cheney (1900–1990) Harry Crews (1935–2012), who has been called "the Hieronymus Bosch of Southern Gothic" James Dickey (1923–1997) William Faulkner (1897–1962) Tom Franklin (b. 1962) William Gay (1941–2012) William Goyen (1915–1983) Davis Grubb (1919–1980) Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951) Charlaine Harris (b. 1951) Harper Lee (1926–2016) Robert R. McCammon (b. 1952) Cormac McCarthy (b. 1933) Carson McCullers (1917–1967) Michael McDowell (1950–1999) Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964) Walker Percy (1916–1990) Edgar Allan Poe, work usually described as Dark Romanticism (1809–1849) Cherie Priest (b. 1975) Anne Rice (1941–2021), particularly The Feast of All Saints and The Witching Hour Frank Stanford (1948–1978), specifically The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You Eudora Welty (1909–2001) Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) Some have included Eudora Welty in the category, but apparently, she disagreed: "They better not call me that!", she abruptly told Alice Walker in an interview. A resurgence of Southern Gothic themes in contemporary fiction has been identified in the work of figures like Barry Hannah (1942–2010), Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), Helen Ellis (b. 1970) and Cherie Priest (b. 1975). Other media A number of films and television programs are also described as being part of the Southern Gothic genre. Some prominent examples are: Films Haunted Spooks (1920) Swamp Water (1941) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) The Night of the Hunter (1955) Baby Doll (1956) Written on the Wind (1956) The Fugitive Kind (1960) The Young One (1960) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) Mudhoney (1965) Hurry Sundown (1967) The Beguiled (1971) Deliverance (1972) The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972) Macon County Line (1974) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Eaten Alive (1976) Ode to Billy Joe (1976) The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) The Evictors (1979) Wise Blood (1979) A Day of