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11782251 No.11782251 [Reply] [Original]

Can we have a thread just for ghost stories? Classics, more recent stuff, even really good creepypasta, I don't care.

Lately I've been reading a lot of Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, M.R. James, Arthur Machen, Walter de la Mare, and a few others, even including Dickens. I've recently gotten into H.R. Wakefield, who is impossible to find online. Right now I'm reading Guy de Maupassant's L'Horla (in English).

I like the ghost story as a sort of low-key variant of cosmic horror, something about ordinary and curious people brushing up against the supernatural and being dwarfed by it. I'm not so much interested in the mortal danger (say, of a monster simply killing you), as much as the idea that there is a whole unexplored spiritual realm out there. That shit freaks me out. Anyone else into this?

>> No.11782625

>>11782251
we need horror general desu. why is literary horror so underappreciated?

>> No.11782651

>>11782251
if you haven't seen it, look around online for Mark Gatiss' documentary about MR James, it's great