/lit/ - Literature

Thisssss...

Read it, of course, but be careful with the book. Ligotti's publications are constantly appreciating in value.

>>4586802
captcha: Spirit freeess

There’s an Italian restaurant at the end of my street that serves a very special “house special” once a year. The place is called Bella Ate. In Roman mythology, Ate was the daughter of Nox, and the sister of Nemesis, the Parcae and Death. Also known as Discordia, she was the goddess of blind folly and delusion.

I keep an eye on Bella Ate from my apartment. The scope gives me a pretty good view.

Every July 18th, the restaurant serves a spaghetti marinara made to a recipe that’s supposed to be generations old. The sauce is crammed with what look like baby octopuses, but the creatures in the topping have eight eyes. The things don’t do much because they’ve been chopped in half. The spaghetti, on the other hand, moves restlessly on the plate...

There’s no accounting for taste. Every table is reserved on July 18th. In the old Roman calendar, this was the day of bad omens.

I never eat at Bella Ate on that day – I carry my sniper rifle up to the roof of my building and take out any fucking thing that makes it past dessert and tries to get back outside.

It still doesn’t stop whatever’s in the kitchen doing exactly the same thing every year.

_Mal appétit_.

>>4168619

>>4090654
This is now a punk rock thread.
Captcha: arketIn Dionysius

>reading through resumes...
>pleb tier confirmed...
>that's not how it works in the real world, you know, cupcake...

MFW I'm over 30 and I love pygmy hunting in the jungles of /lit/.

>>1911714

>Borges hated him, therefore, I hate him.

Borges didn't hate Lovecraft, you clown; in fact, he dedicated his story “There Are More Things” “to the memory of H.P. Lovecraft”:

See:

http://www.contrasoma.com/writing/borgeslovecraft.htm

>That feel when I make more money than Tao Lin by my writing.

>>1823424

>There is no standard.

There is, amongst professionals, and just posted it.

Deal with it.

Asshole.

>failtroll
>mfw

>>1623521

>>1501957

You mad, and way to go with a snappy comeback again, Stag.

>>1427931
>Thinks Peter Ackroyd's "The House of Doctor Dee" is a children's book.

>>1366475

Robert Aickman: "The successful ghost story is akin to poetry and seems to emerge from the same strata of the unconscious."

Check mate, anon.

>>1201569

Christ, you're a douchebag.

In amongst the well-considered comments by Anonymous, you've been given a succinct -- and free -- analysis by a professional writer and editor, you ignorant pig.

GTFO and go to bed.

I didn't, so fuck you.

>>910569

For all the aspiring writers on /lit/:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript_format