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>Denpa games are a subgenre of horror visual novels. The typical model is a horror story where the catalyst for the events that occur are based on familiar people acting in unfamiliar, yet seemingly orchestrated ways. Stories where the world seems to have gone mad; and the protagonist is not necessarily an exception.

Are there any Denpa books that could be classified under the above definition? Essentially capturing the feeling of being a paranoid lunatic who can't trust the world around him. I've only ever seen this done well in visual novels, especially in pic related's case. I was hoping there is some literature that could satisfy my thirst for more stories like this.

inb4 Notes From Underground. While a good read it didn't quite capture the denpa feeling. Which is gradual paranoia/insanity that builds up over the course of the story.

>> No.13798233

>>13798224
Phil K. Dick is great for that. Try The Stigmatas of Palmer Eldritch or Ubik.

>> No.13798549

>>13798224
Oh look a game I want to read that will never be translated haha

>> No.13798558

>>13798224
absolutely no good denpa games but subarashiki hibi and saya no uta are translated

>> No.13798564

>>13798233

Yep to PKD, but I haven't read those, so I can only recommend A Scanner Darkly. A book has never made me feel that paranoid.

>> No.13798630

>>13798558
Totono is getting released soon supposedly

>> No.13798633

>>13798224
kafka

>> No.13798636

>>13798224
Philip K. Dick. (A Scanner Darkly, Ubik , Time Out of Joint. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch)
Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
Auster - The New York Trilogy

>> No.13798822

>>13798564

*has never made me feel SO paranoid

>> No.13798876

>>13798822
What he said was correct.

>> No.13798881

>>13798822
>when you try to correct someone's grammar without understanding grammar

>> No.13798884

John Fowler’ The Magus evokes paranoia well, but it’s not familiar people acting weird, it’s people the narrator encounters.

>> No.13799236

Bump for interest

>> No.13799292

Strindberg's diary and, by extension, most of his novels are centrally paranoiac.

>> No.13799299
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13799299

Pa--ra--nooooiiiia, Pa-ra-noia!
Ain't it grand ta see, that good-time face, again!
Pa-ra-noi-ya, boy oh boy, yer
Just a bit of you-know-what
From way back when!
Even Goya, couldn't draw ya,
Not the way you looked, just kicking' in that door--
Call a lawyer, Paranoia,
Lemme will my ass to you, for-ever-more!

>> No.13799469

>>13798224

Henry Rollins is OCCASIONALLY alright. Parts of Eye Scream are pretty spooky.

>> No.13799707

moogy and kastel fucking stop posting on this board you fucking retards

>> No.13800882

>>13798558
Higurashi is good stuff too

>> No.13801167

>>13799707
Do people still even know or care about Moogy at this point?

>> No.13801388

>>13798876
>>13798881

That was my post. Just trying to clarify -- didn't want to sound like I was saying "a book has never made me feel very paranoid," which the "that" could be interpreted as saying.

>> No.13802438

>>13798224
Fuck you for reminding me that VN will never get translated

>> No.13802466

There was once a paranoiac who said Stendhal was the best simulator of the condition. You know who you are. You know who I am. Don't you?

>> No.13802563

just use vncore and start reading you fags

>> No.13803278

>>13802438
The translator said they might come back and do it eventually, but not anytime soon. So yeah it will probably never be translated. Also bump.

>> No.13803282

>>13798224
The unpublished short stories only me, my therapist and my dearest of friens know about desu.

>> No.13804243

BUMP

>> No.13804806

Final bump