/lit/ - Literature

>>16488665
No, you don't have to have read it; although if you have read it (specifically, the Inferno), the "intertextuality" aspects add to the reading experience. It does help to know at least a little bit about Dante's life, but no more than what you'd learn from perusing his Wikipedia page. To wit: Dante's adult life was spent in forced political exile from Italy.

>>16489773
>whats a really mysterious horror novel or story? the kind that makes you feel like youre going down a creepy interesting rabbit hole on the internet, or just something that revolves around a mystery

A lot of Ramsey Campbell's stuff is like that. Or at least The Grin of the Dark is. A solid horror novel, and solid piece of writing. I actually haven't read a *lot* of Campbell's work; tbqf, the stuff I have read creates such disconcerting feels that it kind of diminishes my enthusiasm to read more. That cat weirds me out like nobody else. And he is a helluva writer. Grin, for instance, among other things, has a *great* feel for the personality and character of internet discussion boards, *and* a great feel for silent movie weirdness. Campbell is really a kind of virtuosic writer in some respects.