/lit/ - Literature

>>15827550
>horror sucks
yes

haha yea thats cool man
anyway check out this pic i just found on the net crazy shit huh?

>>15827566
your blahd

BLEH

>>15827568
Based Inuyasha poster.

>>15827550
i thought house of leaves was pretty spoopy. old horror is quite predictable, trite, etc

>>15827550
>This genre was destroyed by technology.
Nothing gold can stay.

>>15827550
>This genre was destroyed by technology.
Na, gothic fiction/horror is constituted by technology. Think about the way media technology has been used in horror and gothic fiction: Lewis and Radcliffe we’re conscious they were writing fiction in prose (a textuality only available with invent of the printing press), similarly with stoker’s Dracula technology is used to tell the story, Frankenstein does the same, Poe and Lovecraft often employ themes that address alienation with the increase of technology within modernity. I wouldn’t attribute the shit quality of horror to be caused by the addition of technology in their texts - it’s always been there. I think postmodernism, in a broad sense, might have something to do with it. Postmodernist lit give the reader too many options of reading. What I mean is that there can be too many gestures toward allegorical readings that exhaust one ability to sum up a reading to specific topics. For gothic/horror, a genre that needs the unspoken excluded other to threaten to manifests itself in the text, the unspoken is already a visible element that can be easily absorbed into the narrative, without disrupting it. So many PM stories don’t have the same “scariness” as the earlier works because they don’t exclude the other, they absorb and assimilate it.

there is lots of good modern horror lit, the genre is in a much better state than fantasy or sci-fi

>>15827768
Can you give some titles? I’d like to read some new good horror

>>15827772
look up the Bram Stoker Awards and pick something

>>15827772
Not that anon, but King's Salem's Lot really is about as good as a horror novel gets -- it is a fine work of craftsmanship.* And the brief, short story sequel, One for the Road, is an *excellent* short modern horror story.

*That said, I don't claim it's as good as the *best* parts of Stoker's Dracula -- but in my estimate, the best parts don't amount to more than a third of the book, if that.

>>15827772
Laird Barron's best stories (there are a fair number of mediocre and bad ones).

You can read two good ones for free here:

https://www.freesfonline.net/authors/Laird_Barron.html

Those two would be:
>Old Virginia
>Blackwood's Baby

Also, Stephen King's best short story collections, eg, Night Shift.

The reason why horror sucks nowadays is because there’s no build up, no suspense. Everything is just in your face and gory in the moment. True feelings of dread come from fear of the unknown, not knowing who is out there, but knowing that someone is trying to kill you, that feeling where you may not wake up the next morning unless you keep one eye open.

>>15827722
exactly. galvanism made people creeped out and it's really tame compared to the shit we have today, like
>corporate digital panopticon
>GPS cyberstalking
>identity theft

Stephen King is sucks. Every movie is better than source book(except graveyard shift because movie is fucking next level garbage and book is actually good).

I want books like Alien, the thing etc but there's only horrors for teenagers and old people who's easy to scare

“Why’s, you’re Travis Clyde Tuckton, ain;t ya!”she drawled her verbal celebration once she slid her purdy cut-offed jeaned backside inta the truck. “Why’s I remember ya from way back when.”Her purdy freckly face blushed a bit. “Don’t mind tellin’ya now, I kinda had a fixin’for ya.”“Well I gots ta be honest, Iree,”Travis admitted, “Fore I got my butt throwed inta the county poky, I hadda mighty fixin’on you too!”“Ya did!”Travis slammed his big knuckly fist fight smack-dab inta her forehead, and her little lights went right out. then, pickup still rumblin’, he tied her up but good, gagged her, and stuffed her curvy skinny body down inta the footwell. Next thing he knowed, he was carryin’her in like a sack of farm feed inta Grandpap’s work room, and took ta settin’her down on the big cherrywood table Grandpap made boots on. “One of them dirt-eatin’blondie Reids!”Grandpap exalted. “Good job, Travis! Now tie her down on the table and git them silly, whory clothes off her.”Travis saw and didn’t even have ta be tolt, ‘cos there was eye-hooks screwed inta each corner’a the table. Little Iree was still out fer the count, so Travis cut her ropes and tied her right back down to the table, on her back, and her head hangin’over the table edge. “What I do next, Grandpap?”Grandpap tittered, stroked his whiskers, and wheeled right up ta the table. In one crabbed hand, though, he gripped the power drill, which were fitted with a 3-inch hole saw. “Travis, it’s sorta like anything, anything takes practice, ya know. Like Thomas down the roadside bar? that ol’coot kin play the washboard just as pretty as you please, and Conga Powers, boy, he kin git ta pickin’the banja like nobody’s business. Know why, son?”The calculative powerhouse that was Travis’mind ticked right away. “Practice?”he guessed. “S’right, boy. Practice. And as far as cuttin’open a splittail’s coconut goes, I gots a lotta practice, I kin tell ya. Me an’yer daddy, see —and God rest his soul —we’se got ta be the best head-humpers from here ta New Orleens.”And with that fine testimony Grandpap squeezed the drill’s trigger, paused, then applied it to the top of Iree Reid’s purdy blond head. Made quite a racket, it did, an’travis’nose twitched at the smell’a burnin’hair’n bone, but it weren’t another few more seconds ‘fore Grandpap set down the drill.

>>15827609
HOL was my doorway to literature. It will always have a special place in my own house

>>15827578
Based

>>15827578
based BLEH poster

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>>15827550
the entire genre is incapable of producing art, its a purely sensual adrenaline rush to stimulate the lizard brain of the mediocre pleb, rather than elevate themselves to higher sensations of beauty. it is ugliness.

>>15828117
art is for losers who can't get sex

>>15828133
that's actually another thing, it is no coincidence that horror tends to appeal to the other sex by a shockingly high standard. after all, she does not have to elevate herself to anything.

>>15828133

>>15828117
Read Burke. Surely he’s conservative enough for your tastes.

>>15827550
>This genre was destroyed by technology

But if anything technology has even bigger horror potential. Who needs ghosts and vampires when you can have consciousness hacking, brain transplants and other forms in which technology can just outright remove your control of reality and put you at the mercy of some unknown force?

>>15828160
i don't even consider romanticism. it is a nonentity to me.

>>15828242
consider sex

>>15828133
Sex is for losers who can't make art.

>>15828348
keep projecting, incelerino

>>15828111
"Hey, Grandpap, lets me ask ya somethin'. Weren't it be easier, 'stead goin" ta the trouble'a workin' the hole-saw with the drill, ta just knock a hole inner head with a good ballpeen or pig sledge?' "Νaw, boy, and lets me tell ya why." Grandpap, in his erudite wisdom, replied. "Hammer don't make a clean hole, an' that's a might important. 'Member Sisal Conner, fat sack cracker lived in the lean-to out by Watter's Pond? Fer years he dropped pigs fer William's Meat Company, 'fore they closed it a'corse. on account'a the 'conomy. Anyways, Sisal were an expert at crackin' skulls, did it eight hours a day, an' he could drop 'em pretty as you please. Then, once Williams laid his tired ass off, he got to cuttin' wheat on the government subsidy, an' I 'member one time one'a the Croll boys sugared the gas tank on his brant-new John Deer thresher, so Sisal just snatched one of the Croll kids a week later, see, an he invites me an' yer pappy over fer the header. An' insists on usin' a ballpeen on account he was so expert with it from his pig killin' days, an he smacks that boy a tad too hard, picks the pieces out best he could and puts his peter right in. Caught a bone sliver, son, right in his dick knob he did, an' next thing we know he's runnin' 'round screamin' with blood squirtin' out his stiffer like he's takin' a red pee. So that's why ya don't never use a hammer, boy. Ya always use the hole-saw 'cos there weren't never be no bone splinters ta catch a hitch in yer dick."

>>15828242
You’re an idiot. Romanticism permeates culture to such an extent that it’s lexicon and cultural forms have become embedded in everyday thought and speech. You can’t just turn your back on it, and expunge it, it is you.

>>15828443
based

>>15828415
Holy based...

King sucks dick