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Best Weird Fiction? Anonymous Thu Dec 20 01:35:36 2018 No.12255867 [Reply] [Original]

What modern authors have the same macabre and weird writing as Lovecraft. Preferably obscure authors, not HG Wells or Lewis Caroll.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 04:13:34 2018 No.12256372 >>12255867 Harry potter

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 06:56:58 2018 No.12256791 Hideaki Anno.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 07:19:07 2018 No.12256849 >>12255867 I'll give a shoutout to David Ohle, Motorman certainly was weird and had that stilted, uncanny feel.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 08:59:19 2018 No.12257059 >>12255867 Thomas Ligotti?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 09:02:53 2018 No.12257069 NYRB recently put out a Robert Aickman short story collection.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 09:04:01 2018 No.12257072 >>12257069 and Edogawa Ranpo

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 09:07:34 2018 No.12257079 >>12255867 Laird Barron. My favorite currently active author, and probably the best successor to Lovecraft in terms of modern Weird.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 09:40:41 2018 No.12257159 >>12255867 Try Lovecraft predecessor and inspirator, Arthur Machen. I sometimes find 19th century poetry to have an inadvertent lovecraftian vibe.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 09:46:28 2018 No.12257172 File: 180 KB, 630x1033, 0CABA9E4-1DE2-4528-B1F6-43FB43766591.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12255867 After the pig men attack it starts to get really werd

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 10:31:28 2018 No.12257310 >>12255867 Thomas Ligotti is the cream of the crop. Ramsey Campbell is pretty good. Also, >>12257159 this anon knows what he's talking about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 10:31:52 2018 No.12257312 Arthur Machen

Anonymous Thu Dec 20 10:57:05 2018 No.12257392

>>12255867
Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, and William Hope Hodgson are all masters of weird fiction and Lovecraft loved them. Lovecraft was also a huge fan of M. R. James and Lord Dunsany but M. R. James only wrote ghost stories so don't go into his work expecting anything even vaguely cosmic and Lord Dunsany had a cosmic imagination but most of his tales are pure fantasy instead of horror.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 11:09:09 2018 No.12257444 >>12257392 M. R. James often had an ancient book or relic unleashing the supernatural once discovered, which was a recurring trope in Lovecraft. Also James’s short story might have had another influence with the Count’s tentacle faced companion.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 11:16:32 2018 No.12257480 >>12257444 Count Magnus definitely influenced The Case of Charles Dexter Ward but I never considered it might've influenced Lovecraft's other work. I forgot that the Count's campaign is a little tentacle monster.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 11:20:27 2018 No.12257490 >>12255867 Nick Land

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 20 13:44:57 2018 No.12258028 >>12257079 Currently reading Swift to Chase and have read all his previous collections. Can say he pretty damn neato.

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