/lit/ - Literature

>>13301233
The Color Out of Space
The King in Yellow
House of Leaves

>>13301233
The Terror, first half is scary, second half isn't because you get use to the monster walking around the ship and killing brits.

the pit and the pendulum by Poe

>>13301233
I have no mouth but I must scream,

Most stuff Ive read by lovecraft, Mountains of madness and Horror at Innsmouth to start

>>13301233
The Shadow over Innsmouth is my favourite Lovecraft story

>>13301284
Try expand your readings to other authors that Lovecraft knew, like Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen

Is there anything similar to this in these horror stories?

>>13301722
Seconding Blackwood

Perfume

>>13301251
The colour out of space is terrible.

Don’t understand the hype at all

>>13301284
>shadow over innsmouth
>the dunwich horror

correct titles

>>13301233
The Yellow Wallpaper

>>13301233
Try Robert Aickman for some great short stories in the horror/strange fiction genre. Cold Hand In Mine, Tales of Love and Death, Painted Devils, all good collections.

Bump

>>13301233
Clark Ashton Smith's short horror stories are the most exemplary of their kind

>>13301233
One of Koontz's darkest novels.

>>13306329
Seems like cheap genre fiction.

>>13306373
Believe it or not, his fiction helped me decide on the person I want to become.

>>13301233
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

>>13306445
Too bad i already saw the movie.

>>13306405
What type of person did you decide on becoming.

>>13302549
>terrible
I honestly can't express how much I fucking hate you.

The Ritual wasn't bad for current genre fiction.

>>13306475
I chose to become greater then what I suffered and become stronger from my struggles, to face it head on instead of shirking away.

>>13306547
That is inspiring anon.

>>13306485
Compared to his other works I don’t see why it’s held in such high regard

MR James is great for short horror

>>13302475
The broadsword ( Occultation and Other Stories, Laird Barron )
there's no cat tho

>>13302712
Nice to see him mentioned on here, usually I'm the only one shilling him. What are some of your favorite stories?

>>13307051
It's creepy, interesting, and has probably the most well-executed sense of surmounting doom. though I first heard The Whisperer in Darkness as an audiobook, while driving through a national forest at night, and it's the only time a written work has actually unnerved me like a movie might. I'd consider it a close 2nd.

>>13306373
He’s got some really shit stories and some really mediocre stories but I’d be lying if I said he didn’t have some really good novels, too. I haven’t read a lot of them, but “Ticktock” is a very good one as well as “Lightning.”

I haven’t personally read them but his “Frankenstein” novels, “By the Light of the Moon”, “Phantoms”, and the first two “Odd Thomas” novels are supposed to be good too

>>13301233
Anything by my man Brian Evenson

>>13308786
While looking up his books to make sure I didn’t miss one I stumbled across The Voice in the Night which sounds pretty good too

>>13308786
My bad, it was Life Expectancy not Ticktock. I got confused because the cover of the book is a cuckoo clock and one of the characters names is Jimmy Tock

>>13301283
Excellent choice

Mom found the poop sock

>>13306450
the southern reach trilogy is far from being a masterpiece, but the movie is just a bad adaptation of the first book

>>13301251
>The Color Out of Space
This is my comment
>>13302549
There are two things that distinguish it from other horror stories for me.
The first is the alienness of it. A monster, a portal into another world, etc. these are terrifying but I've been around a frightening animal or an unsafe place. This weird substance that cannot be contained, that can't even be accurate described, that's something unique and beyond my life experience.
Second I think you have to have experienced a severe illness or simply be older to appreciate what it means to have your body, your home, your life wasting away around you. When you're young you wake up and don't notice your body. It simply does what you ask of it. But if you've ever been truly incapacitated your body cannot do as you tell it to, as you are accustomed to, and you experience for the first time in your life your body failing you. And it is that horror that the The Color Out of Space captured for me.

any of y'all niggas actually scared by any book? be honest

>>13309291
I wouldn't be against reading it, but half the fun of horror is having absolutely no idea of what is coming next. I feel there are actual stakes in horror which is why I like it so much. If the movie deviates strongly from the source material then I would definitely give the books a chance, but if it is only changes here and there people are upset about, then I am not sure if I am interested.