/lit/ - Literature

>>22081991
Young Goodman Brown - Hawthorne
Short and simple but intensely sad loss of innocence story

>>16376922
I really enjoyed a book called The Search for William Tully by Wm. Hallahan.

Discovered the book via this blogpost (this is a great horror blog, btw):
http://toomuchhorrorfiction.blogspot.com/2010/10/search-for-joseph-tully-by-william-h.html

The book satisfies in just the way the post describes.

Stephen King is controversial on this board, to say the least, but when he's good, he's good. Salem's Lot and Pet Semetary are v. good, imo. I would rank for the former as one of the best horror novels written.

It's all a matter of taste, and horror fans often seem to disagree on what's good and what's not. But those are a few that I've enjoyed; ymmv.

(pic related by hawthorne = cool horror story)

>>16350128
It's a variant on the pleasures of all genre fiction, which conjure up a warm, pleasurable feeling in the reader.

Perhaps analogous to flavors in food that you particularly enjoy.

>>16213597

The Search for Joseph Tully is a good read. It's not super-scary, but it's got a great sense of mood, and it builds to a very potent climax of the book. If I'm not mistaken, it has been recently been re-released as an e-book after being out of print for a long time.

Here is the review that (happily) persuaded me to read it:

http://toomuchhorrorfiction.blogspot.com/2010/10/search-for-joseph-tully-by-william-h.html

Also, pic related is a v. good story if you haven't read it.