/lit/ - Literature

>>14130662
I'm sure it looks better in person, but Ligotti has got to have the most shit-tier cover art of any author famous enough to have better

>>13560439
No, the message is that you should kill yourself.

Im searching for pessimistic black pill literature as Conspiracy agaiinst human race . i need books that give no chance to hope . i need absolutely dark mysantropic literature that leaves no hope. It should be absolutely negative without any slightest hiint at hope whatsovever.

Any authors with a similar style to Tommy "The Body" Ligotti? Grotesque, surreal, nihilistic, Kafkaesque, bureaucracy-obsessed, etc.

I’m suffering from a terrible ennui involving horror authors. I want something engaging, thought provoking and visceral. I enjoyed a few of this guy’s short stories, is he worth digging deeper into?

Ligotti is top-tier

Ligotti is the perfect contemporary horror / weird tales writer. Why? Because whereas Lovecraft capitalized on the subjects of space, unexplored territories (the sea, exotic lands) etc, Ligotti instead looks around and wonders where might the source of modern horror / weirdness be? Koji Suzuki wrote The Ring (1991) because he saw it in modern television. I'm sure somebody I'm not aware of has written something spooky about the internet. But Ligotti realized that distant lands either in earth or in space just aren't that creepy any more. We know life is mundane and depressing wherever we go. At the bottom of the ocean there's no giant monster, just some obscure fish that may at best be good material for a clickbait article. So Ligotti looks around his own life and sees the horror and weirdness in the corporate landscape, in the Kafkaesque nightmare of lengthy meetings scheduled apparently for sadistic purposes, at the mysterious workplace hierarchy which decides who is to stay at the company ("Oh thank ye master!") and who is going to be "cut". He finds the source of his inner turmoil not, as Lovecraft discovered it, in having been forced - as a sensitive individual - into a city full of blacks and what Lovecraft deemed "Italo-Semitic Mongrels" (or "sweaty apes") but in being forced to suffer in silence in a cubicle-packed office wherein absurd rules, nauseous formalities and so on are the norm, and where someone like Ligotti can only allow the grudge he bears to become more intense and all-consuming by the way. And this is the "Progress" he is apparently a part of. Much like Houellebecq in that respect, Ligotti is a dissenter among the Last Men of the contemporary western middle-class. Like Houellebecq he comprehends the basic fact that progress and modernity are largely hollow mantras to which many people, including the dreaded Co-Workers (often the malevolent characters in Ligotti's work) subscribe, as they thrive and proliferate in the hellish grey flannel officeworld governed by that mysterious shadowy figure lurking behind the stained glass floor-to-ceiling Head Office window.

Aside from Poe, Lovecraft & Ligotti, what Horror writer have you read that had you legitimately scared?
I recently picked up Algernon Blackwood’s short stories and found them only mildly chilling.

>>11208026
Ligotti

Does Weird Fiction work in novel form, or is it something that can only really work as short stories?

Why is he so perfect?