The tales in Faulkner's The Hamlet create a cycle that explores the lives of the Sartoris and Snopes families, detailing their complex relationships and declines from the era of Abner Snopes to the early 1900s.

Faulkner's Sanctuary (1931) is a novel characterized by its themes of irrationality and violence. It has faced criticism for seemingly exploiting the same brutality that "Barn Burning" condemns. Written as a commercial endeavor, Sanctuary also reveals Faulkner's more market-oriented side.

Similar to Faulkner, H. P. Lovecraft was an agrarian anti-modernist with a passionate focus on the concept of degeneration. Lovecraft's "Shadow over Innsmouth" (1936) depicts themes of inbreeding, isolation, and violence within a small New England town. His stories "Whisperer in Darkness" and "The Dunwich Horror" feature a fictional American setting, Arkham County in Massachusetts, which shares many similarities with Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha. These stories are included in Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and Others.

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) centers on the moral and emotional development of a young girl in Alabama. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, To Kill a Mockingbird is celebrated as a prime example of Southern regionalism.

California poet Robinson Jeffers crafted narrative verse that delves into nineteenth-century California much like Faulkner's exploration of the nineteenth and early twentieth-century South. Jeffers's "The Roan Stallion," found in Selected Poems of Robinson Jeffers, serves as a powerful illustration of regionalism conveying a universal vision.