/lit/ - Literature

>>12301594
I enjoy Lovecraft and have several collections of his stories. However his work is very much limited by its pulp origins. Very repetitive storylines, and I'm not overly fond of the disconnect between the protagonists and the actual horrific events that happen in the story (I've read a couple where the protagonist just reads about stuff the whole time and only sees or feels something for himself literally in the last couple of paragraphs). Shadow Over Innsmouth is my favorite because it doesn't do this for the whole story, and reading about the history of the town is really captivating. Haven't read At the Mountains of Madness yet.

>>12301593
I've heard he's good, but haven't read anything of his yet.

>>12301581
I've heard good things about this, but I've already seen the film The Others. Will that spoil the book for me? Can't remember if they're the same story.

>>12301565
Read it, fantastic book. Also a fantastic example of what I mean by horror but not marketed as horror. Any more?

Any books with the same depth of meaning and maybe similar themes to Silent Hill 2? I know it's /v/, but the sad thing is that SH2 might be a better horror story than any novel that I know of, and certainly any movie. Please, I want a literary horror novel or short story that isn't labelled a "tour de force" by infantile people who giggle and clap when scenes of cheap sex or gore are dangled in front of their faces.