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It's funny that you posted this, because I was just thinking about that movie. The only book I can come up with right now is Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ...I'll try to think of some others.

I don't think it has voodoo, but def a southern gothic vibe

maybe Graveminder. she does write YA, but this one is an adult novel.

Rebecca isn't set in the south, well, not the south of the US, but I think it may have the atmosphere you're after.

well, if it's just southern gothic you want, i could definitely give you a good list. after work?

sorry, i meant to come here after work, but i was too weary. and then i left my list at work, derrr. but here are a few for you to look at. take a look, and tell me if this is the right tone, and i will try to add to it once i get my list in my hands.

A Choir of Ill Children
A Twisted Ladder
Candles Burning
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
The Reapers Are the Angels
The Violent Bear it Away

none of those have voodoo specifically i don't think, but they all have elements of horror, either real or psychological.

this one is just great dark south writing without horror-as-such:

Suttree

and this one is more of a dark crime novel:

Dogs of God

in other news, there are these two titles that borrow the tone of the southern gothic without actually taking place in the south:

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

and

A Prayer for the Dying

hopefully more later, unless this is enough.

For an easy, beach read along the lines you are describing, you might consider The Witching Hour by Anne Rice. It's the first in her Mayfair collection and, while the sequels were not good, I REALLY enjoyed this, almost in spite of myself. All takes place in NOLA, and there's even some voodoo, if I remember correctly!