/lit/ - Literature

>>4121407
Have you read any Borges? How about Marquez?

I think you'll like those two. They're who I started reading after my "I just found out about Lovercraft yesterday" phase.

>>4121413
anything in particular by them? and no i haven't i've started back into reading again and horror is really something i'm starting to get into more and more.

"Terror" by Dan Simmons.

Lovecraft: read The Color out of Space. it wouldn't make a movie of the week - not enough car chases - but it is fucking well written.

follow that with the Dunwich Horror.

>>4121421
One Hundred Years of Solitude and An Old Man With Enormous Wings are among Marquez's most popular works. They're both very good reads.

With Borges: I recommend just jumping in. His stuff should be available for free in many places on the net.

And for more Lovecraft: his later stuff is much better than earlier stuff (he tried too hard to be Poe imo).

perfect, i have a ton of time now with online classes and i download most to my nook (don't care it's a nook it was free and is easy to read with) but i do prefer hard copies.

has anyone else had the urge to read the necronomicon after a few lovecraft stories? or is that just me?

I always loved "Rats in the Walls" and "Nyarlathotep."

For similar reading, try the King in Yellow collection of short stories by R.W. Chambers.

I'm reading the necronomicon right now and following that up with the complete poe. I liked Mountains of Madness but I liked The Shadow Over Innsmouth more, check it out.

I'd strongly suggest Laird Barron OP, he does his own Chaotic mythos type thing that is fucking fantastic. Start with Occultation, easily his best short story collection thus far. The Croning is also good.

Thomas Ligotti is probably the closest we have to a modern-day Lovecraft. Equally unknown outside of a relatively small but quite devoted circle of friends and followers; writes only short stories, poems and the odd novella; has a really dark and pessimistic vision of life. Pretty good stuff.

Here's a free story from him:

http://weirdfictionreview.com/2011/12/the-red-tower-by-thomas-ligotti/

>>4121517

And here's another one, one that actually pokes some fun at your typical Lovecraftian (or even Ligottian) yarn, then spins it on its head. (It's split in three parts, make sure to click "next" at the bottom).

http://www.ligotti.net/tlo/nethescurial1.htm

He does that some times. He has a piece titled "Notes on the Writing of Horror" that starts as an essay on, well, on how to write horror fiction. Then halfway through the essay becomes a story of its own.

>>4121523
excellent thank you

>>4121433
definitely read the color out of space, its one of my favorites, The Shadow Over Innsmouth is also really good

>>4121430
I just donated that book. Should I get it back?

most of Lovecraft's stories are very similar to each other

>>4121407
>lovecraft thinking about a black person jumping in a river to escape from a lynching party only to realise he can't swim.jpeg