/lit/ - Literature

>>22822487

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

It's a short epistolary but it's very much in a horror style that I like. Clinical anodyne prose that leaves a lot to the imagination is more worthwhile horror to me than the overtly grotesque.

1408/The Jaunt - Stephen King (short stories you can find online)
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison
I'm Thinking of Ending Things - Ian Reid
The Troop - Nick Cutter
Tender is the Flesh - Augustina Bazzterica
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski

>>22822487
I got the NYRB collection of weird stories, Shadow of Carcosa, recently even though genre fic typically isn’t my thing. Blackwood’s The Willows was entertaining. Very atmospheric. The description of nature was almost worth it by itself. It made me want to boat down the Danube through the Black Forest lol. Still corny at parts like how the Swede was an expert of the thing out of nowhere. Telltale genre fic sign. It was still a good read. White People by Machen was creepy but trying and tiring. It was like reading a fever dream. Still kinda disturbing. Poe is Poe, one of the GOAT’s. Stoker’s The Squaw was meh, typical genre fic. Chamber’s Repairer of Reputations could have been so good but it wasn’t. So much wasted potential. Bierce is solid. Lovecraft is in there, I’ve read him probably a decade ago so I forget how he is. I haven’t read Shiel yet. The Jolly Corner by Henry James is legit literature, but not really scary though. Interesting premise. Haven’t read de Mare yet

>>22822503
Flowers for Algernon
The Test - Sylvain Neuvel

>>22822503
Thank you, this seems right up my alley! I love sci-fi horror!
>>22822543
Thank you, I appreciate the recommendations. I have read The Troop and House of Leaves, and I loved both. I will read IHNMAIMS tomorrow.
>>22822546
>>22822559
Thank you!

>>22822487
Revival by Stephen King

>>22822487
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy is so nonchalantly obscene that you can miss how terrible the things described are. Clearly inspired by Ed Gein. It's not on the level of Blood Meridian or The Crossing, but it's still McCarthy.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick is pretty good. Not exactly creepy, mostly just really conceptually weird sci-fi.
Kill 'Em All by Ryan Green. Not particularly well written, but the content is compelling. A more studied nonfiction account of the Karl Panzram story that doesn't just take his autobiography for granted. It's almost amusing how extreme his life story is.
Edward Lee if you're retarded and enjoy tryhard descriptions of gore and sexual violence.

>>22822487
If you have read Miso Soup, check out Coinlocker Babys by him.

>>22822487
It's not really horror, but was definitely unnerving at some points and left a strange impression: Omensetter's Luck by Gass.

Read both Miso and Frisk recently, so I'll re-rec Frisk to you. The Necrophiliac by Wittkop is another good one off this list, and Fires on the Plain by Ooka isn't quite horror, but it's good and disturbing.

>>22822503

You're welcome. The SCP Wiki is something you've probably at least heard of so I'm surprised no one has even mentioned it yet.

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1425

I like this one in particular but there are all kinds of different genres on there.

>>22822487
>The Only Computer Crime for Which Theologians Are Consulted
Sorry for this being a picture but the original is buried in a PDF with a bunch of unrelated shit. Originally appeared in one of the /lit/ mags before it went to shit, and back then it was well-received. As far as I know the author never submitted anything else (nor was there anything else in the way of horror in the mag), which is a bummer.

>>22824774
Do you know how many of these I bought after you first posted this chart?

>>22826514
This is my first time posting it, homie. But I was probably in that thread.

I wanted to add that the only time a book has made me definitively scared was Watership Down, though that was when I was a pre-teen. Still stands out to me, though. Apart from that I have fond memories of being a teenager and browsing /x/ greentext threads late at night, getting scared under a blanket.

Is Hogg any good?

Also, what about that new book about a playground by Aaron Beaufart or whatever his name is
Is splatterpunk making a comeback?

>>22827100
the setting is good for hogg but the rest is literal pedo shit eating gay child porn. and im not being sarcastic here. 70% is a pre-teen sex slave forced to eat shit and raped and abused

>>22824774
I read or partially read most of this list this year. None really hit the same as In the Miso Soup imo; it really is a special book. Related: The Drift was fucking fan-fic tier terrible. Literally half a page of the book had interesting/weird imagery and the rest is some black guy's self-insert racist projections.

>>22827100
Hogg is great. Would recommend.

>>22824774
I've read In the Miso Soup and The Wasp Factory off this list. Miso Soup was pretty good! I enjoyed The Wasp Factory but I found it rather silly, although that's not necessarily a bad thing.. It got a genuine laugh out of me several times.

>his GREASY cock and BALLS

I'm reading Bastard Out of Carolina next.

Most fucked up book you've ever read, /lit/?

the other side of the mountain michel bernanos

>>22829729
A Child Called 'It'

>>22829978
If it makes you feel better, a lot of that shit was probably made up.

/thread

This one is the most disturbing I have read. I've read Blood Meridian and In the Miso Soup... This one though... Author drank himself to death after writing it.

Also for non-fiction, Dogs of the Conquest. Historical accounts of the Spanish dogs used on the indigenous people of Central and South America.

>>22822503
Oh shit I thought this dude died or something, wasn't aware he was still writing. I remember reading Ra in middle school and liking it.

Thank you for all the recommendations you guys. I ordered some stuff off thriftbooks and can't wait for it to get here. I put the rest of the recommendations in a list to reference for later.

>>22831443
>Let's Go Play at the Adams'
This looks like smut based on the cover. Wanna say what was so disturbing about it?

Picnic at hanging rock is underrated

>>22832750
No, it is very perfectly rated. Fun fact: If you buy the Criterion dvd of the Peter Weir movie adaptation you also get the novel alongside it as an extra. The only other movies they do this with are Yukio Mishimas Patriotism and John Ford's Red River.

>>22832645
No. You'll have to read it to find out. When it was over I wanted to shower in bleach. Also, though the cover sucks, don't judge a book by ... I can't believe I had to say that in /lit

"Let's Go Play at the Adams' is a 1974 horror novel by Mendal W. Johnson and originally published by Thomas Y. Crowell Co. Its plot focuses on a group of suburban Maryland children who drug, incapacitate, and eventually torture the overnight babysitter hired by their parents."

>>22832802
I'm asking for more substance than just a synopsis, like "his descriptions of X were unlike anything I read" or "I've never read anyone who did X so well/like that before". And covers do matter to some extent, even if they can be misleading: they're inherently meant to be a representation of the work inside. If you slap Pokemon hentai on your cover then I'd expect your shit to be about dicking down Pikachu. If it's a cheap staged photo of pretty girl in a nightgown tied to a chair with her tits bulging, then I expect it's going to have something to with cheap smut about licking her down or similar.

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

>>22823741
>>22832941
I am not opposed to Stephen King by any means but I'm most familiar with him since he was always on the shelf in my childhood home. I appreciate his work but I am always trying to reach for other horror authors because of the sheer grip he has on the genre. It seems every bookstore's horror section is choked with his books. I bear no offense but it is a little bit frustrating!

>>22822487
The Holy Terrors by Cocteau - it is about two creepy siblings who gradually seclude themselves from the world after the one is injured by a snowball. The few outsiders who enter their world they usually mess with or they end up dying in mysterius ways. I dont mean to imly it is a serial killer book but rather it is about the myteries of life and of fate.

>>22833000
Bogdanoff bros...

creepypastas are better than any of the books I've seen listed so far

>>22833125
You should give >>22826497 a read.

>>22833125
What are some of your fave creepypastas, I would love to know some. I dont come by them often

Would the infamous shitpost ‘Dipper Goes To Taco Bell’ count as horror literature? That shit deserves its infamy; it’s gross in actually every way possible to be gross.

I suppose the horror is in the very act of reading it, how it always gets worse with every new sentence; how whenever you hope for it to be over, you’re rewarded with something even more disgusting than what you thought was just the most disgusting you’ve ever read.

>>22831293
People say this but when I actually go to search this theory Google gives me nothing. Is there any actual proof he wasn't abused?