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Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner, Truman Capote and Flannery O'Connor set dark and bizarre stories in rural American settings, drawing from Gothic fiction traditions but addressing the darkness within society. William Faulkner is particularly influential as he used the fictional Yoknapatawpha county in Mississippi as the setting for many of his stories featuring colorful and peculiar characters, often employing nonlinear flashbacks that blend past, present and future. Faulkner is credited with inspiring magical realism, exemplified by Gabriel Garcia Marquez's highly acclaimed novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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