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>A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.

This.
This is my jam.
Got any recommendations?

>> No.12438201

Dan Brown

>> No.12438238

lovecraft

>> No.12438241

my diary

>> No.12438254

there is story by Ligotti that goes exactly like this.

>> No.12438409

>>12438191
Umberto Eco, Foucault's pendulum. Better by far then any Dan Brown, thank me later.

>> No.12438421

>>12438191
Also check out The club Dumas, it is right in the same alley.

>> No.12438449

>>12438421
that’s the book OP’s movie was based on

>> No.12438465

Some of MR James’s short stories. Not so much the conspiracy but old books or artifacts inadvertently releasing supernatural forces on the world

>> No.12438473

>>12438449
I know but the book is better then "The ninth gate" Imo.

>> No.12438475

sounds gay as fuck
kill yourself pathetic frogfaggot

>> No.12438477

>>12438241
kek

>> No.12438478

>>12438475

I'm very sad to know you're still in pain

>> No.12438483

>>12438475
Kids are not allowed on 4chin new friend.

>> No.12438547
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>>12438191
Louis Armand's The Combinations. Not 100% on the mark for your post, but it's great. Think TCoL49 but instead of corporate conspiracy, it's wild esoterica.

>> No.12438583

the 20 days of turin, sort of

>> No.12438585

>>12438191
Read "The Gig Economy" - a rare book enthusiast, after purchasing the only known copy of a cognitohazard text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with accelerationist overtones.

>> No.12438613

>>12438483
this is 4channel.it you retard

>> No.12438660

>>12438613
Wow! How cool, you sure can throw insults champ, but how about you give book suggestions?

>> No.12438663

>>12438613
Maybe you should try aging a bit kid.

>> No.12438752

>>12438254
which one?

>> No.12438816

Either Eco's Foucault's Pendulum or his Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, about a rare book dealer who gets amnesia and rediscovers himself by looking through the books and artifacts of his youth

>> No.12438821

>>12438191
Anatole France's The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard has a little in common with this. Read in tandem with Meryinck's The Golem and with Huysmans' La Bas then followed up with Davies' Deptford Trilogy may well be the calculus to achieve this feel of feels. But begin with Benjamin's essay on Unpacking his Library.

>> No.12438851

>>12438585
I cant find this book.
Who is the author?

>> No.12439471

>>12438473
I want to hurt you.

>> No.12439646

>>12438851
It's a short story written by Zero HP Lovecraft

zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-economy-2/

>> No.12439661

>>12438409
not the OP but thanks this looks really good anon.

How does the translation hold up though?

>> No.12439677

>>12439661
Eco worked really closely with the translators (usually William Weaver) for all his novels; it's about as good as you can get but of course the Italian is superior

>> No.12439764

>>12439677
Well I'm not prepared to learn Italian but if he worked with them that seems like the prose should retain a lot of the intended value.