/lit/ - Literature

>>19101223
start with the greeks

>>19101230
That's cool but I'm kind of looking for Halloween themed books

>>19101234
start with romans / learn latin
https://youtu.be/K80LgryEOBE

>>19101327
Hmmmm. Not the answer I was expecting but okay that’s kind of interesting. Thank you

I'd read Homer (both works) and move onto the tragedies, dealer's choice.
Greeks and Halloween are perfect together.

>>19101223
Ligotti's Halloween/autumn-themed stories.
>Alice's Last Adventure
>The Shadow at the Bottom of the World
>Conversations in a Dead Language

>>19102425
Thank you. This is exactly the types I was looking for.
>>19102389
Thank you too. I'm suprised to hear the Greeks are really that good for horror. But you guys were right about Call of the Crocodile and House of Leaves so maybe your right about that too. I'll give it a fair chance.

Call of the Crocodile and Sleepy Holly are probably the "best" halloween esque books you can read if you want the general atmosphere of the season. The Greeks are essential but I'm not sure they convey the same degree of atmosphere.

>>19101230
based

>>19102544
Yeah call of the crocodile is a great choice too.
You can't go wrong with anything self published of you are looking for horrific literature.

>>19103188
I am sorry if this is a stupid question but why do people on this board like Call of the crocodile so much? I do not uderstand. I usually get all the books this board loves like Kafka, Dostoevsky, Mishima, Nietzsche, the Greeks and so on but why this one? Aren't there hundreds of books like this one? Or is this one genuinely special somehow?

>>19103188
Its written by a coomer so its shilled hard on this board.

>>19103845
Call of the Crocodile proved to me that, even though they say they are not, 4chan is very much as ad swayed as a woman reading Cosmopolitan.

>>19101223
Boyd Rice - No!

>>19103845
Here’s a pretty good pic that ive seen going around. Other than this it has a genuinely unique twist and deals with a lot of meta and existential horror themes. It’s a ridiculous complex book in terms of the themes it delves into and subjects discussed.

>>19103970
Ok. Thanks. I'll check it out sometime later then.

>>19101223
if any anons are for some reason interested in wasting their time reading gardener's dogshit, at least don't also waste your money - it's available for free here:
https://au1lib.org/book/11994656/1ff726
https://pastebin.com/be7ALyVf

>>19101223
I just read Dark Harvest, fun little Halloween read.
Once I finish In A Lonely Place I got a pretty good spooky read pile:
Our Lady of Darkness
Fevre Dream
Blind Voices

>>19101223
Edgar Allan Poe of course

Saw this posted in another ridiculously early Halloween reading thread and was intrigued enough to pick it up
Enjoyed the short story Faust so far
And the werewolf one. The tragic death ones are kinda meh though ngl

>>19103845
Yes it’s genuinely special, it has some of the craziest twists I’ve ever read, it’s already a /lit/ classic

>>19103954
4chan isn't ad swayed like a woman, its irony-swayed like a numale

>>19101223
Ghost Story by Peter Straub, I love that book

>>19104929
>>19105777

Thanks

>>19103803
Is this real? I haven't read any of Gardner's stuff but I'm gonna start call of the arcade right now.
>Why not start with call of the crocodile?
I know from the countless shitposts that they can be read in any order.

>>19107308
No idea if that’s real. But call of the arcade is awesome.