/lit/ - Literature

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Unironically read Reverend Insanity. Xiaxias are set in a REAL fantasy where EVERYTHING is magic, and the ultimate goal of all wizards is uncovering the fundamental nature and mechanism of that magic in order to gain power over it.
In RI EVERYTHING IS A GU, all the things you think aren't are just due to ignorance and are later revealed to be so.

There's no low fantasy medieval bullshit here, even a random peasant fishing village makes it's living by diving for mermaids trapped in magical tar vents off the coast to sell their bones which can be used to manufacture cosmetic potions. The closest thing to a conventional traveling merchant caravan rides inside weightless pagodas carried by giant toads. The Alpha of a wolf pack is determined by which animal is best at using magical powers and can often be found able to fly, regenerate, breathe fire, etc...

Has a book ever scared you?
If so, what book was it, how scared, and why?
If not, what would you say is the emotional limit of the horror genre?

In general, what emotions do you think books are capable/incapable of producing in the reader?
Some of them are obviously possible, even common, like sadness, happiness, disgust, confusion, concern, discomfort, anxiety, amusement, love, and hatred. But I've never once felt anything I could call fear while reading. Am I just missing something, or is it a fundamental limitation of the medium?