/lit/ - Literature

>>21876322
>Anything you'd recommend to read beforehand?
i know it's overrated (and it's not even scary if anything) but it's a comfy book and made me start moby dick.

>>21640157

Anybody read picrel? Loved it and am now working my way through Children of the Fang a few stories at a time in between novels. Really liking Langan so far.

>Novel is highly praised
>It's actually boring amateurish garbage

Stop doing this. Stop praising shitty books.

felt unexpectedly cozy and eerie at the same time

So whoever recommended me laird bannon last week

Your a fucking cunt

Sure some of the stories were good (in a cavern, in a canyon / old Virginia) but most every other story just dissolves into surreal drivel and that does NOT make for a good campfire tale to tell your bros over a couple beers

Now what else is out there

Whenever me and the lads get together for a trip somewhere we all stay in a room together, pour glasses of their drink of choice (glen levit being mine), and I regale them with tales I’ve read across the internet and from books, their favorites being the left right game and pic related was the last one I told them and they loved it

Is there any other stories out there in that vein, I must pass on lovecraft because it won’t work orally for the same reasons they’ll never be properly filmed

Has /lit/ read picrel yet? I thought it was one of the most down to earth horror novels I've ever read. It stayed on task, didn't meander around from one random thought to the next. Everything serves the plot but you also start to get sucked into its comfy setting.

I ask that anons here do NOT spoil the plot or ending, in case anyone hasn't read it yet. Spoilers will often prevent someone from reading.

Are there any books from the last 10 years or so that are similar? Cosmic horror with a neverending sense of mystery and dread.

>>19537966

A horror recommendation: The Fisherman by John Langan

The Fisherman by John Langan

MODERN HORROR?

recommend modern horror

+

why isn't their a chart yet for purely modern horror

Thoughts on this one?

What are some weird books about sailing adventures? I mean none of the traditional Melville/Conrad/O'brien/Stevenson type of stuff.

>>16599044
Recently started The Fisherman. It has a slow start, but just finished chapter 3 and it's finally drawing me in.

>>16495181
The Fisherman - John Langan (2016)
It's October, so I thought I'd start off with a horror novel. The first 20% is a rather enjoyably and comfortably written slice of life - I had no problem with it. However, the author then concedes in his own writing how to better enjoy this bait and switch and why it's necessary. The next 50% is a story, the titular The Fisherman, being related to the reader and I was not amused to say the least. I simply couldn't find myself caring about it so it was quite the detriment for me. This is likely an atypical reaction and from what I can tell, most probably won't mind. The final 30% resumes the present-day story and I found myself enjoying it again, though not quite as much. I would have vastly preferred that the middle story had been vastly reduced or not included, or really for the book to have been entirely reworked. As it is, I felt as though I read two books that were inextricably linked and I had to read both but I only liked one of them. That I had the wrong expectations going into it didn't help. I had been expecting a modern day cosmic horror, which there is, but half of it is 1800s gothic horror, which isn't what I wanted. Initially the middle story gave me the feeling of Sleepy Hollow, but that was probably only a personal reaction, though Irving, along with various other literary references are explicitly mentioned. It ends up differently and more along the lines of cosmic horror. Considering the author says in the afterword that he worked on this for 12 years or so, I assume this is more or less how he wanted it to be. For the usual person who reads this, I think they'd enjoy it significantly more than I did, as it becomes increasingly clear to me that this literary mode isn't particularly suitable to my interests.
Rating: 3/5 (4 for present day, 2 for past)

Finished this recently and enjoyed it.

>>16089913
>What would /lit/ recommend as the best contemporary horror?
John Langan

What are some cosmic horror stories/novels that involve the sea? I recently read pic related and enjoyed it quite a bit.

ITT: Post the last book you finished

I found this through one of the horror threads on here, and I'm coming up on about halfway through. I gotta say I'm growing more and more annoyed with any and all "lovecraftian" horror tropes. What can you do besides roll your eyes when a book starts going on about studying old forbidden books with runes and symbols on them, or madness from seeing some unknown cosmic horror.

I hope this redeems itself somehow by the end.

>>14106355

This, but it's so damn boring that I can't get to the ending.