/lit/ - Literature

>Always dreamed of writing weird fiction.
>Bunch of ideas never used.
>Now I'm 38.
>Wife stays up until 3am writing fan fiction about a mobile game called Choices and has a ton of fans.
>Be jealous

Is it too late bros?

>Be raised a homeschooled Jehovah's Witness
>Find freedom in the library since no one polices what you check out
>Read everything you can get your hands on
>Go to college after leaving cult
>Ace every single English course but ignore it to go into nursing for money
>Now just want to write short horror/strange fiction

Should I just jump off a bridge?

The House on the Borderland is easily my favorite book of all time. Are there any more like this?

Most of it seems to come from Blackwood, Chambers, Bierce, for the old stuff, and Barron and Ligotti fur the newer stuff.

Are there any others? I've read these authors works many times and always wished there was more.

I've tried looking at other "horror" books but they are all Kootz level garbage our worse.

Thanks in advance for any help.

>>18536412
>I can’t think of many books that drop in quality as quickly or steeply
Since we're on the subject of horror novels, pic-related after 50 pages

>>17132983
The House on the Borderlands

"The House on the Borderland" by William Hodgson
It's an amazing cosmic trip with some horror elements to it. Kind of makes you feel small and puts you face to face with the strange and the unknown, just like Lovecraftian horror. Give it a try.

I am a Hodgson fan but haven’t read this one. Will put on my to read list.

>>12255867
After the pig men attack it starts to get really werd

>>9516978