/lit/ - Literature

>>8159832
2/3

Dumping mine first. Only got, like, 6.

more essentials pls.

>>7202483
Not what /lit/ says.

>>5131667
just look around for 5 fucking minutes before asking for suggestions and you'll find your answer on the wiki

>>4232323
Here's a rec image, though since IT is on it you might not be a fan.

What's some horror that you've read and have enjoyed? I think to some extent it's a requirement that it's not as entirely cohesive and natural as 'non-genre' literature is. Part of why King works so well is the fact he manages to twist these silly things juuust over the line into being scary (also why his horror work is so hard to translate to film).

Hey /lit/, I was interested in reading a horror story with a key themes being darkness, loneness and with a faceless foe if possible. I saw your recommended reading (see pic) but nothing there catches my interest. Just wondering if anyone knows of any other novels that may fit this?

OP here. Dumping what /lit/ has deemed "essential" horror. Just to help out those in need.

>Weird
H.P.Lovecraft - At the mountains of madness
William Hope Hodgson - The house in the borderland
Clark Ashton Smith - The emperor of dreams
Jeff Vandermeer - City of saints and madmen
China Miéville - Perdido street station

>Classic Horror
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Edgar Allen Poe - The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Robert W. Chambers - The King in Yellow
Matthew Lewis - The Monk
Charles Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer
Ambrose Bierce - Ghost, and Other Stories
>20th Century Horror
Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
Clive Barker - Books of Blood
Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Stephen King - It, Pet Sematary
Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs
Dan Simmons - Song of Kali
Algernon Blackwood - Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
M.R. James - Casting the Runes, and Other Ghost Stories
Mervyn Peake - Boy in Darkness
William Hodgson - The House on the Borderland
H. P. Lovecraft - The Dunwich Horror

If you go back to the link and click on that same image, it pops up in a little window. In the bottom right corner there is a little icon with a document and a magnifying glass. Click on that icon and it'll take you to another page where you can then get the full sized image.

I'll help you out just this once.

What the fuck guys?

>>1805040

why don't people ever read the sticky?

this?

If you could pick only one of these books. Which one would it be?
I'm going to buy one of them soon during the amazon sale. I'm currently leaning towards The Pilo Family Circus.

Not sure if troll, or just retarded

>20th century
>H.P. Lovecraft

..wait what?

>>1463450
I'm still here.

Well, I wanted to add one of each author. The only double author is King because I dont think you can ignore him, even when I tried. Anyway, I already have a joe hill in "Heat Shaped Box"

I don't know people are ignoring my updates and repeating, it's odd. But thank you for the thoughts thus far.

THIS IS WHAT I HAVE SO FAR. I asked a friend who know more about modern horror then me and apparently the odder and gory thing is hip at the moment. I think you can pick the three out.

Anyway, Any more classic or 20th?