/lit/ - Literature

What horror books have you guys been reading?

>>21213468
I've rad Frankenstein a few weeks ago, and I'm planning to start The Shining in a few days, after I'm finished with Naked Lunch

How would one describe Michael Shea's brand of horror

>>21213468
Currently reading B.R. Yeager's Negative Space, phenomenal book

>>21214864
Horror Fiction

What Ligotti story scares you the most

>>21213468
Started John Dies at the End; more comedy than horror. Pargins was a writer for Cracked and it really shows; really 2008-style edgy humor

I have The Ruins by Scott Smith sitting in the stack. I have heard it is immaculate ecohorror

>>21215190
So far? Alice's Last Adventure is a good candidate but all of them are amazing

Why do I hate Stephen kings writing?

Bump why do you guys quit with your input. These threads are a god send

I haven't read this book but I already know I hate this book

>>21213468
>Some Ghost Stories MR James
Some are quitechilling, but often he ruins it with bad impressions of working class people. Sound like Dick Van Dyke in Marry Poppins

>The Halloween Tree by Bradbury
Kind of a halloween version of A Christmas Carol where a bunch of kids go on a journey exploring the origins of halloween. A kids book but quite surreal, written beautifully.

>Legion by William Blatty
A spin off to the Exorcist featuring some of the same characters. About half way in it's more a feeling of dread than horror at the moment, even if some nasty stuff has happened. Love the atmospheric way he writes.

Pls rec me body horror about bodies being cut open and shit

>>21215390
Maybe you're an illiterate edge lord?

He's a verbose mother fucker, but I've never hated a word he's written. Only read about 4 of his novels though.

>>21215501
I like blatty but I can't seem to get into Bradburys writing, it's just like the perfect painting but it's too perfect he puts too much into detail. Like no I don't need to know what color a dudes balls are. I'd rather have tension build up.

>>21215507
Apparently everybody recommends Salems lot but man the dialogue isn't realistic. Would you really start talking to somebody you've barely met like you've known them your whole life? That's rare if you find someone like this. I was only 25 pages I read the foreword and the prologue but I couldn't get into it. With the haunting of hill house its more realistic because that is how they talked to each other in the time period they were in

>>21215509
Hah, yeah he does like to paint a scene. He straddles the line between novel prose and epic poetry. Sometimes I wish a shoe was just a shoe.

>>21215518
But that's what made me not want to continue on with it. I was around 100 pages in. It's didn't feel like horror. It didn't
feel incomprehensible to invoke fear

>>21215516
I mean Haunting of Hill House is excellent, and while I like Salem's Lot, it is a little empty. The mini series was better.

Also, depending on the stranger, I'll treat them like I've known them all my life. Probably not the extent of the book.

>>21215525
I'll guess I'll give it another go. So far loved the haunting of hill house and the exorcist. Any recommendations for more of this writing style that's horror send it my way. Whoever called me an edgelord faggot can go fuck themselves

>>21215505
The Autopsy by Michael Shea, short story though

>>21215540
If you don't like salem's lot, you probably don't like king. Which is a blessing in a way. His scariest is meant to be Pet Cemetary, but I won't read it as it's a bit triggering for me. Give that a try.

How well has it aged?

Which books of this chart have you read, and what did you think of them?
Are there (newer) books that should be on this chart?

>>21213468
Finished Edward Lee's most recent collection. Was disappointed.

Onto "Ritualistic Human Sacrifice" by C. V. Hunt, which is fun.

>>21216018
HOL is 9,5/10
I am Legend was 7/10
Dracula was 3/10 boring asf

>>21213365
>>21216018
Highly recommend House of Leaves, it was kino.

>>21216059
>>21216062
I've also read HoL, it is an incredible book indeed

Any edition experts who can help me pick one?

>>21214048
I hope you like The Shining. I normally enjoy older King but I think loving The Shining movie so much sort of ruined my ability to enjoy the book

>>21216343
Whichever one is biggest so you look super smart wielding your EAP tome

>>21216630
I hope so too, it'll be my first King novel (heard it's a good place to start, and one of his best novels). I also liked the film, but I've heard it is pretty different from the novel, so I'm curious to see how it is

>>21215540
>>21215706
Actually just thought of one: The Strain co written by Guillermo Del Torro. Though it was creepier than Salem's Lot, sharing many of the thrmes.

>>21216689
I know most people really like the book as well. Whether or not you end up enjoying it, definitely give IT or Misery a chance. He churns out a lot of trash, but those are definitely two good ones by him.

>>21213365
This book was super comfy

>>21216343
I'm looking for a box set with divided volumes of the complete tales of Lovecraft and Poe, did you find something like that?

>>21213468
the monk
its kino

Has anyone read this or the sequel The Wicca Woman? Apparently Shaffer used this as a template for The Wicker Man but curious to see how it deviates from the film adaptation.

>>21215507
>though

>>21215498
It would take a lot of convincing for me to read a book by Chuck Wendig.

>>21213468
I read this right before Halloween. It was a fun read

>>21216715
I'll definitely look into Misery. Have you read Salem's Lot, Pet Sematary or his short stories? I'm curious to hear what you think of those

>>21213365
Just finished The totem. I really like it, a small town has a gruesome animal mutilation problem and builds up to a small war at the end.

>>21215914
The pseudo-science stuff hasn't aged well. I still liked it, characters exploring their demons and a feeling of being isolated in an evil place.

>>21217248
Salem’s Lot is on my list. I liked Pet Sematary, but it does take a while to get to the point. It may just be my own personal fears, but I felt particularly horrified at the part where he’s actually digging up his dead son

>>21215914
The evil ghost guy was based on Aleister Crowley and an American theater owner and perv named Belasco.
Editors had to explain to Matheson he better throw some murders in to explain why the house was haunted and evil because the boomers weren’t going to be prudishly horrified by the sex orgies and drug abuse since they were pretty much doing the same thing every chance they got.
The finale was kind of meh. The movie had a couple qt grils in it but Roddy McDowell was a huge faget.

>>21217042
based, I think it’s better than Dracula and Frankenstein

>>21216018
16 from early horror and 1 from post war horror, although I think I own all the novels and stories from early horror.

>>21217523
Which ones did you like the most?

>>21217258
Yes I've heard "The Totem" is based. Endorsed heavily by Kristopher Triana, whose a based contemporary horror author.

>>21217534
All of them

>>21217534
That's a hard question. I enjoyed most of them, but I have something things to say about some of them.
The story of the spaniar in Melmoth the Wanderer is a filter, it's so long that it feels like a novel within a novel.
I thoroughly enjoyed the gothic stories of Poe, but I hated everything else.
W.W. Jacobs is a very shitty horror writer. He nailed it with one or two stories, but everything else is mediocre at best.

>>21215516
>>21215706
Salem's lot is trash. I have no idea why it's loved so much. It's probably my least favorite King's early book.

>>21217889
The 70s mini series carries a lot of its weight. It was genuinely scary as fuck.

>>21217889
Which ones are your favourite?

>>21216927
Can't say I've seen anything like it.
Tbh I doubt they would pair Poe with HPL but it's not impossible.
However it'd be more likely that you'd find an HPL/Clark Ashton Smith/Hodgson set for example

>>21213468
Nothing.

>>21213468

Idk if its exactly horror but i just ended reading In the miso soup

It was short but sweet, and the end half was pretty kino and thougth provoking

Looking for anything quality that's ghost story related. Compilations, novellas, books. Just nothing too obvious (pic related).

>>21216699
Read the comic of the strain. Really really good. Loved the ending

>>21215706
I'll try Pet sematary

>>21218213
I haven't read a lot of them, but The Stand, The Shining, The Green Mile, The Mist, Under the Dome were pretty good. Even liked Carrie and Rage more than Salem, can't remember why exactly.

Bump for interest

will ligotti ever publish any new writing guys? or has he checked out for good?

>>21220866
He put out another book of poems a couple weeks ago. Short stories probably not unless they find some unpublished early shit after he dies

>>21216018
anyone read The Fisherman, is it recommendable for one who absolutely hated House of Windows or more of the same?

"Rose" by Paul Town is the scariest book I've ever read. I wish the guy wasn't so autistic so that he could write dialog, but regardless, this book is the scariest, and I read a lot of books.

>>21221015
Paul Town is an actual schizo and convicted arsonist, he got caught burning down some random barn

>>21220989
I enjoyed The Fisherman but didn’t think it was particularly scary. It seemed more like a Weird fiction adventure than a horror novel, though it did have some horror elements. The parts I liked best were the immigrants living in the labor camp while they’re building the dam and the German professor’s back story about ventures into an alternate universe.
It’s kind of like Jaws for me. I appreciate it more as adventure than horror.xe0na

>>21215390
You don't like McDonalds' junk food?

>>21221254
Yeah I hate it, thanks king

>>21221030
>>21221015
a glowing endorsement

>>21213468
Recently finished The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez. It's closer to magical realism than straight-up horror but it had some striking moments and imagery I really enjoyed.
I also read The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio de Maria but was left unimpressed. I don't know enough about the history of Italian fascism to get a lot of the symbolism, but even so it just didn't scratch my horror itch.

Started reading Lovecraft.
The Alchemist
>Thus isolated, and thrown upon my own resources, I spent the hours of my childhood in poring over the ancient tomes that filled the shadow-haunted library of the chateau, and in roaming without aim or purpose through the perpetual dusk of the spectral wood that clothes the side of the hill near its foot.
Modern poets would be jealous of the rhyme

The beast in the cave:
>Nearer, nearer, the dreadful footfalls approached. It seemed that I must give vent to a piercing scream, yet had I been sufficiently irresolute to attempt such a thing, my voice could scarce have responded. I was petrified, rooted to the spot. I doubted if my right arm would allow me to hurl its missile at the oncoming thing when the crucial moment should arrive.

I love his oldstyle sentence structure. Sometimes they are even easier to read than modern english. Perhaps they resemble my native language somewhat.

>>21213468
Call of the Crocodile. It’s way better that I thought it would be. You guys were right.

>>21221631
Don't forget to write a believable Goodreads review. It's being bombed by 1-star ratings, this is outrageous!

>>21221597
Note that both of those stories were written when he was a teenager and are not representative of the quality of his later work. One of the problems with these collections that put everything in chronological order is that they start with his poorer stories like this first.

>Legion
>William Blatty

I must have forgotten this was a sequel to The Exorcist, but you wouldn't know going by the first 2/3, and then it spins out of control, ups the tension at every turn to fizzle out at the end.

There's an oppressive mood to the whole thing, and the atmosphere Blatty creates in every scene could earn him an award in imagined folley work. You hear the sound of traffic and sirens through the badly insoulated precinct windows, the telephones, the perpwalks. The streets breath, rooms hum with the gloom. If anybody wanted SE7EN in a novel, this isn't a million miles away, even down to the affable old detective who rambles to himself and anyone who'd listen.

It was never going to be a 5; the Exorcist is such a great read. But despite the crappy ending and general lack of horror for most of the book Blatty knows how to write interesting characters, and the creepines make it more a generous 3/5

>>21213468
Just finished Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud, it's definitely one of the better books I've read this year.

The depictions of hell in the stories was really unique and imaginative with an almost cosmic horror feel to them, which really stood out compared to the standard fire and brimstone stuff.

Plus, it ends with an incredible pirate story, which is a tragically underutilized setting in horror.

>>21213468
Just started House on the Borderland.

Any horror books where the horror is incorporated into a psychological Bildungsroman?
Like it has actual meaning what happens?

>>21221819
I don't mind chronological order, since I'm determined to read all of them. Have the translations of these volumes in my library, but apparently I'm capable of reading the original.

>>21222400
That's good. I think some people read the very early stuff, don't like it, and then quit.

Anyone pick up Garth Marenghis Terrortome yet? I know it's a comedy, not sure if it will translate to book form.

>>21221631
>>21221802
Fuck off with your shill-spamming, Gardner.
Stephen King farts more horror than you'll ever possess.

>>21223235
That's why I got the audio book. Figured it would ve like listening to the behind the scenes interviews of Darkplace.

Not exepecting horror though.

>>21223788
From the reviews I read it has lots of nods to horror and seems faithful to the original.

>>21218959
I really like the baseball part

>>21222154
Which horror novels got a 5/5 from you?

>>21213468
Lately I've been reading a couple of Algernon Blackwood stories before bed and most of them have been great.
It's a different (or rather classic) kind of horror and won't scare most readers. But they're so well written that I don't even care.
I haven't even read The Willows or The Wendigo yet.

Any particular stories of him to look out for?

>>21223893
Sorry, should have said 'not expecting to be scared'. It'll be lousy with horror tropes.

>Blood?
>Blood.
>Crimson, copper smelling blood.
>His blood.
>Blood... Blood.
>Blood
>And bits of sick.

>>21224504
>Lately I've been reading a couple of Algernon Blackwood. It's a different (or rather classic) kind of horror.
I also started to read them. It's not jumpscare horror, many aren't even that horrory. The writing is excellent.
Best stories I've read so far are: The Insanity of Jones, The Man Who Was Milligan, Violence, The Wood Of The Dead.
And I liked Wendigo more than Willows, it was easier to imagine, and easier to let myself get scared. Or I was in the right mood at the time of reading.

how is books of blood

How is this

>>21224155
I think the Exorcist was pretty close. As was Annihilation.

Anything that makes me question what I've read, I think. Maybe dementia is my real fear?

>>21225333
Read it and find out

Can somebody recommend a good audio book (or podcast) version of The Fall of the House of Usher on Spotify?

There's a few, but I don't care for all the reimagined version from the perspectives of other characters etc. Just give me the raw, original piece by Poe, written by somebody whose voice isnt shit.

>>21214894
thanks

>>21215190
Probably "The Medusa" because the protagonist reminds me of a friend who I think might be slipping down that slope of schizophrenia.

Has anybody read it? If so, would you recommend it?

>>21216018
>The House on the Borderland
Amazing book but wtf was that ending?
If it wasn't for that I'm pretty sure we'd have a movie by now

>>21225333
Barker is peak contemporary horror writing desu

>>21225607
Not horror. More transgressive fiction

This dude knows how to tell a good story

>>21213468
I've slowly trudged through Lovecraft, chronological order of his works. I'm currently at The Rats in the Wall and I've been awed and amazed by the slow improvement of his writing.

>>21226952
who?

>>21228093
Soren Narnia. The pic related is a collection of short stories as told on his podcast "Knifepoint Horror"

Is The Haunting of House Hill as good as everyone says it is?

Any books where the military or soldiers fight against monsters/demons? I know "monster hunter international" but it would be quite surprising if no one else ever thinkered with that idea.

>>21228119
Yes, I highly recommend it

>>21228119
Shirley Jackson is very good, most of her novels and stories aren’t creepy or disturbing but they’re very well written with a distinct atmosphere and well developed characters

>>21225689
dont have much money lad
wont waste my money on a book if its shit

>>21229005
Download and "preview" it then? Keep previewing until it gets unbearable. If you finish it - good, you have read the book. Didn't like and dropped - good, won't have to waste money on a disappointment.
I have previewed hundreds of books this way, a real money saver.

>>21229657
>Download and "preview" it then? Keep previewing until it gets unbearable. If you finish it - good, you have read the book. Didn't like and dropped - good, won't have to waste money on a disappointment.
>I have previewed hundreds of books this way, a real money saver.
i only read physical books
yeah there's the thing on amazon where you can view the first twenty pages but i've ordered books where the first pages are good and then it turns out shitty
and there's plenty of books that aren't on amazon and don't have that feature

>>21228119
>The Haunting of House Hill
lmao

>>21228119
It has perhaps the best first few paragraphs of any horror novel. But I bounced off it. I was reading it when my kid was very young so maybe didn't give it my full attention. It is very well written, and hella spooky in parts.

So even though I didn't like it on my first read, take comfort in knowing I do want to read it again.

>>21229924
Gotcha . What I meant was "pirate", but I like "preview" more.
>I only read physical books
I mostly read ebooks, but try to sneak in paper ones to diversify the experience.

For me, It's Quincey Morris, the best vampire hunter.

>>21228011
That's my favorite of his

>>21228119
Not really, I found it pretty bland. But maybe you'll love it.

>>21213365
You guys all still doing horror post Halloween?

I'm finishing up Harvest Home right now, which somehow manages to be both comfy and creepy at the same time.

Picked this up today
Thoughts?

>>21231931
Also neat little card someone put in the cover…in 1971 it seems. Immaculate condition aside from the slip cover.

If anyone in this thread enjoyed the movie Barbarian you should probably read some Edward Lee since the movie felt like a way toned down Lee story in the second half

>>21231931
Thoughts about what?

>>21214864
Is this the dude who did nifft the lean

>>21225333
Excellent.

How is this collection?

>>21232457
I've wondered this recently too after I saw it on goodreads

>>21232344
about the book

>>21226952
Agreed. I have been listening to his audiobooks on his podcast for years.

>>21231934
Your book it almost certainly haunted. Take a pic of the cover again tomorow and post it here. If the photo gets clearer you'll know.

Ligotti is wonderful, especially Teatro Grottesco, which I find very funny and almost ecstatically weird - but in general I find him to be the only real living "weird tales" author with any substance - pretty much all of the mainstream "weird horror writers" (fanboys) are actual losers, basedboys, etc. Pronouns in bio, Black Lives Matter, all proceeds go to Planned Parenthood (which I firmly believe most of the foundational Weird Horror authors - Poe, HP - would have found too grim and unbelievable had someone told them about a nationwide syndicate of abortion clinics funded by the government, but I digress)... Ligotti is also a loser, but he also fried his mind out with drugs- which not enough writers do at all anymore, at least in this world.

"Conspiracy Against the Human Race" should have never been released; almost everyone I know who reads finds the premise contrived if not distasteful and barely anyone I know who reads really reads short fiction.

Severini, The Bungalow House, Gas Station Carnivals. Absolutely perfect.

The best contemporary weird tales and cinema/art aren't being published or shared publicly, btw - there are fairly large but very private mailing lists and a forum which took me about two years to get an invite and interview for. Literally a "you don't find us, we find you" type deal. There is a member with collection of about a thousand HP Lovecraft letters that no-one has seen besides this user, who posts and transcribes roughly a letter a week.

>>21233020
okay?

>>21234253
I also found a realtors card from 1974 being used as a bookmark

>>21234272
>The best contemporary weird tales and cinema/art aren't being published or shared publicly, btw - there are fairly large but very private mailing lists and a forum which took me about two years to get an invite and interview for. Literally a "you don't find us, we find you" type deal. There is a member with collection of about a thousand HP Lovecraft letters that no-one has seen besides this user, who posts and transcribes roughly a letter a week.
cringe
lovecraft would be ashamed at such a sight

>>21234431
Your mom is ashamed of you

>>21234440
lovecraft would be reviled at the sight of what his fandom has become
autists talking about a "cthulhu mythos", pseuds hoarding his letters, people analysing every aspect of his stories and life
ligotti is a hack, virtually all modern weird fiction is navel gazing drivel that misses what made the greats like lovecraft and ashton smith and machen so great

>>21234453
Your mom is reviled at the sight of you

>>21231931
Good read, mediocre ending kinda

>>21228119
Really good, wish the ending was better just a little

>>21235111
What'd you dislike about the ending?

>>21217644
I tried to make it through Melmoth the Wanderer some years ago, and it filtered me. Just so many unrelated layers that it felt like a complete shaggy dog story.

Should it be one of my next buys

>>21236161
I don't know, that's more of a you problem.

>>21235724
She just commits suicide, but the doctor didn't conclude if paranormal phenomenon was real even though his wife was proving it to him with her machine. In the end every one just went on with their lives

>>21235808
This is how I felt about ray Bradbury's something wicked this way comes

>>21236161
Disappointingly formulaic ending, but everything leading up to the ending is very good. Slow, creepy, symbolic. Wonderful use of the Pine Barrens setting. Even the ending isn't bad, like it would be in a King novel, just feels like he wimped out and could've/should've done something weirder but had to make sacrifices for marketability. Still very much worth it.

>>21221015
thanks for the endorsement, eddie!

>>21234272
>The best contemporary weird tales and cinema/art aren't being published or shared publicly, btw - there are fairly large but very private mailing lists and a forum which took me about two years to get an invite and interview for. Literally a "you don't find us, we find you" type deal.
Sounds like an edgy redditors club
>There is a member with collection of about a thousand HP Lovecraft letters that no-one has seen besides this user, who posts and transcribes roughly a letter a week
Sounds like some faggot’s creative writing project
Kys lmao

>>21237287
fuck off back to /pol/ loser

>>21213468
I've been pissing and shitting all the way through reading it.

>>21237312
Absolute nigger

>>21234272
Mark Samuels is Based and Redpilled™ in the literal /pol/ sense and his first couple collections are really good by modern weird fiction standards. Brian Evenson wrote a story called Trigger Warning which is quite boomerish but also funny and is pretty much exactly what you'd think based off the title. Reggie Oliver and Richard Gavin I get the impression don't give a shit about any of the neoliberal woke crap. The rest are pretty much exactly what you're describing, even very good ones (Slatsky, Kiernan, Bartlett etc) but thankfully it's rarely an issue in their writing

>>21221597
>Joshi
Can someone tell this pajeet he doesn't own Lovecraft.
I'd really like to know a deep psycho analysis of this obessesion with HPL.

>>21213468
I read the Hellbound Heart last month then I watched Hellraiser, Hellraiser is a great movie but I was sad they cut the two best scenes from the book out.

>>21237733
Joshi is a good guy because he'll eternally defend Lovecraft against the woke retards mob

>>21237746
Which is funny because Lovecraft became a socialist and dropped all the racism a couple years before he died

>>21237747
>Lovecraft became a dindu loving imbecile before he died
Because that's being said by contemporary 'horror' libshits who give prices only to black whamen anymore no matter how shit their prose is.

>>21237358
Bought a copy for my bro, but sneakily read a few pages.

It's peak Darkplace.

>>21237747
Yeah but he's still eternally tainted to those people

>>21213365
Any horror fiction set in africa?

>>21238336
Shake Hands with the Devil.

But it's not fiction.

>>21237733
Joshi seems to be a perfectionist:
>I have, however, now undertaken a renewed investigation of the textual status of Lovecraft’s stories, re-examining my textual notes and refining my decisions as to the best textual sources for the stories as well as of Lovecraft’s preferences in regard to spelling, punctuation, and other details. I also wished to present these textual variants for interested readers, since there has on occasion been confusion as to the sources of the corrections I made in my previous editions. I have now presented these variegated results in this variorum edition, which lists all the textual variants in important publications of each Lovecraft story.
He started going through HPL stories and realized that the butchered spelling and publisher errors were a greater horror to him than any fiction could ever be.

I've been tempted by this for a while now, but my instincts tell me it's meme garbage.

>>21226952
I love KH, but Soren's style of... speech, can get incredibly... grating...

>>21238781
Negative Space is great so this should be too

>>21238971
Nice

Breaking news!

New F Gardner kino!

>>21216689
>it'll be my first King novel
I'm reading The Shining as my first King novel right now too, currently at the last 150-200 pages.
It really is very different to the movie, and to add my two cents, Kubrick improved on pretty much everything I didn't like about the book so far.
But this is definitely a bias talking.
>>21216715
>definitely give IT or Misery a chance
Would those be novels where he lets loose?
What I enjoyed from The Shining was the fantastical, anything concerned with personal family drama I found extremely boring.
I think I could become a fan of his if I read him at this most freaky.

is it any good?

>>21240004
Read it

>>21239812
Cool. F Gardner’s books are always a real treat.

>>21240837
You can just talk about yourself in the first person

>>21239812
How the fuck does he pump out books so fast he's like Stephen King levels of a one man content factory

>>21241189
>How the fuck does he pump out books so fast
Short
Shit
Indie publishing has never been easier

Traditionally most authors would produce a shit load of work, but only publish the best stuff. They'd usually polish older shorter stories into an anthology. You don't have to do any of that if you just publish POD with Amazon or Lulu.

Here's an excerpt from Jikogu:

>He was a boy named Jerry. A Kid from Chicago. It was late afternoon and he was sitting on his front lawn Indian style. His legs were crisscrossed as he sat on the grass and it was so far as otherwise normal summer afternoon. The boy shuffles a deck of cards, holding them up to his face. Not a normal deck of cards.

Let's analyse this...

>He was a boy named Jerry. A Kid from Chicago
As opposed to a goat from New Jersey.
>he was sitting on his front lawn Indian style. His legs were crisscrossed
A borderline racist slur, combined with instructions on how to sit like that for idiots.
>normal summer afternoon
Uh oh... I think something going to get cray
>The boy shuffles a deck of cards, holding them up to his face
We've switched to present tense now. So not only is the boy shuffling in real time, he's shuffling the whilst holding them up to his face. Quite a feat for an Angora from Ohio.
>Not a normal deck of cards.
Fucking knew it. There is nothing normal about this afternoon.

I can't go on. This wouldn't pass a high-school creative writing class unscathed. This is just bad weblit without the commitment to 200 chapters.

>>21240004
I want to read this, but I also have Dark Matter by Michelle Paver on my shelf looking at me. It's a similar theme but about 1/4 the length.

>>21241558
Then read it.

>>21241591
>read

>>21241604
You don't read?

>>21241684
Where do you think you are?

>>21241552
This makes me want to read it actually

>>21216018
The Willows is the only true perfect cosmic horror ever written. Even Lovecraft agreed.

>>21243641
The time to read it was before you published, G.

>>21234453
Based

Good and underrated collection of short stories. The Man From the Peak is an all time great horror/weird fiction story

How is this one?

>>21213365

>>21213365
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>>21241591
>>21240066
>Yes, I COULD talk about books but I choose not to
Quality posts.
Hang yourself.

>>21243902
I will check this out

>>21243902
Going to check this out, thanks!

I'm glad this thread is still up. Bump

>>21213365
I read Bram Stoker's Dracula and after the first sequence through the castle, the rest of the book was such a slog.

Any recommendations for more exciting horror novels? I haven't read that much in the genre, but love Poe and have read some by Lovecraft. I used to love those Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark books as a kid, which genuinely frightened me.

No meme recs plz. I read CotC in a single sitting and was nonplussed. That guy had some fun ideas but badly needs an editor.

I'm thinking about picking up Between Two Fires. Has anyone here read it, and would you recommend?

>>21245779
it's shit

>>21245813
why's that, anon?

>>21245828
>dude gay priests in medieval europe
>dude the same lone wolf and cub le grizzled warrior with innocent child trite trope we've seen a thousand times before
it's shit
drivel
trite

>>21246003
Fair enough. Thanks for saving me the trouble.

>>21245108
I really liked this. It's not pure horror, more of a weird character study (American Psycho if written by Ligotti), definitely check it out if that sounds good to you

>>21237287
you're welcome paul!

>>21218959
It's really great, if you like (the good) Murakami, you should try From the Fatherland with Love. But avoid Almost Transparent Blue, I hated it.

>>21245760
Robert E Howard might be the guy for you, his stories are like a better-paced more action oriented version of Lovecraft's works.
There's also Clark Ashton Smith if you're into more weirder horror fantasy.

>>21241552
That’s not true though. Most of F Gardner’s books are 200+ pages. He pumps these out at a really fast rate.

>>21248718
I’ve read Call of the Crocodile. The twist in it was cool.

>>21215256
Man I fucking love the John Dies series. The fourth book was released last month & I enjoyed it a lot

>>21213468
Just finished "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant, It was excellent. Going to read either "The Wolf", also my Guy de Maupassant, or "The Dream-Quest of Kaddath" by H.P. Lovecraft

>>21248718
>Most of F Gardner’s books are 200+ pages
With double spacing, maybe.

Since rainbow (about ten books) only 3 have been over 200. And barely.

The earlier 5 were between 120 and 160, averaging towards the lower count.

So, short, and shit, and no publisher or editor to keep these delusional cringing high-school fantasies locked away.