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Hey, /lit/. Can I get some recommendations for works similar to The Yellow Wallpaper, Hunger,
The Turn of the Screw and To the Lighthouse? Anything really introspective and/or psychological. Shorter works are preferred as I've been doing a lot of larger readers this year. Much appreciated. Thanks.

>> No.12252532

>>12252515
Shirley Jackson. Hangsaman and We Have Always Lived in the Castle are shorter, but The Haunting of Hill House is a classic and really easy to speed through.

>> No.12252547

>>12252532
I've heard about Jackson, but never really looked into. Thanks for the suggestion.

>> No.12252613

Dubliners

>> No.12252780
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Anymore? Cheers.

>> No.12252949

>>12252780
The Invention of Morel is pretty creepy but it's magical realism bordering on sci-fi, along with being introspective and psychological, so YMMV.

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>>12252532
so good
perfect for OP!

>> No.12253122

>>12253108
I spend hours looking up book lists; it's sort of like a second hobby to reading now. I haven't seen this one much on classic "reputed" lists/charts. Is it really that good? I like the premise.

>> No.12253128

>>12253122
I mean I just haven't seen Jackson mentioned up there with the iconic authors.

>> No.12253186

>>12253128
that’s a shame
Haunting of Hill House was made into a movie
Lottery was in New Yorker and shocked readers

>> No.12253197

>>12252515
First person I’ve seen who liked Yellow Wallpaper

>> No.12253211

>>12253197
On /lit/, you mean? I thought it was alright, yes, but it could've been a little longer to give the protagonist some more development.

>> No.12253232

>>12253211
I love books like this
Shirley Jackson is the best I’ve read

>> No.12253319

>>12253122
Jackson writes the best crazy women. We have Always Lived in the Castle is the female equivalent of if you told /r9k/ tendies and good boy points were cancelled one night over dinner while they were armed.

>> No.12253332

>>12253319
I can't figure out where she's placed. Just out of interest, what do you think? Is she above what I like to call the "Stephen King and Lovecraft" tier? Where does she fit? I really haven't come across her a lot and I spend shit tons of hours looking at lists and charts.

>> No.12253354

>>12253332
Way better at prose than King or Lovecraft. It's usually first person of the female who believes in crazy female supernatural shit. For instance, at one point in We have Always... the narrator decides not to go sit by the river to cool down, because she only goes there on X day each week, so she has no reason to believe the river exists on other days.
She's more like Muriel Spark and in the stream of consciousness line of things than strictly a genre writer.

>> No.12253373

>>12253354
Good, because they're both shit tier. I'll definitely add Castle to my list of books to read.

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>>12253332
It's closer to Turning of the Screw level stuff, just really careful control of information flow and the use of voice to suggest character. SJ is excellent.

Pic related is a cool book from this year.

>> No.12253525

>>12253377
I'm definitely considering Castle now. I was going to place it on my 2019 to read list, but may as well read it before the new year to get another book on the record.