/lit/ - Literature

>>18497192

Anything else like this?

Made me cry, made me horny, gave me goosebumps, made me feel like I had friends, and educated me on Parisian intellectual interests of the time period. Now that's what I call a page turner!

Read it.

>>17268928
La-Bas or Down There by JK Huysmans, mostly looking for inspiration for a sci-fi/horror thing I've been working on for a while. Finally got to the part that's supposed to be scary and realized I have no idea how to generate dread, fear, mystery, etc. in my audience.
I'm feeling really nostalgic these days. I'm at several forks in the road in terms of my career and personal life, all of which represent good things, improvements, taking on more responsibility in a good way type shit. And I'm outwardly embracing and taking on the challenge, but inside I feel emotionally paralyzed or maybe better put, emotionally constipated. Regressing a little bit.
Spent like an hour yesterday watching sonic adventure 2 battle playthroughs, which was one of my favorite video games as a kid. I don't even like video games any more, haven't thought about that game since ages ago, but it popped into my head. I find myself craving basically one of those idyllic late elementary, early middle school summers. I want my mom to take me to a pool where I can jump off the high dive to impress some girl whose breasts have only recently come in, pop rock hard boners in the locker room I can hang my heavy-ass beach towel on. Fall out of a tree and break my arm. Have a sleepover where me and the boys take over the living room, have my mom make us pizza rolls while we stay up til like 1 playing james bond nightfire.
All of this feels very toxic and shitty, by the way, and I have such a strong association between man-babies and nostalgia that each wave of impulsive regression is followed with intense self-hatred. Damn it, face your fucking life. You fought hard to get here and now is the moment you've been sweating and bleeding for and your head is, where? In your childhood?
Adolescence is a marketing construct anyway, and it's not like my parents created some sort of perfect safe-haven life for me so I'd have an arrested development and desire to never leave the nest. Shit was hard. But it's still pulling me back right now and I need to snap out of it. Hanging out on 4chan more than usual is definitely part of it.

>>15139433
Are you looking for novels and fiction that involve Satanism, or actual grimoires and educational literate? If it’s the former, see pic related.