/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15433346]

Any good gothic/dark fantasy books to read?

[Anonymous No.15433360]

>>15433346
Dark Souls is unironically better dark fantasy than any book

[Anonymous No.15433760]

>>15433360

Just give me some recommendations for God’s sake instead of shilling that dogshit. Dark Souls is overrated trash and you know it.

[Anonymous No.15433780]

>>15433760
not him but it's an excellent dark fairy tale that people seem to overhype for all the wrong reasons

[Anonymous No.15433781]

Unironically Frankenstein. It's really good, and it gives off pretty powerful dark fantasy vibes. Watching Victor's life and the life of everyone around him slowly get destroyed and corrupted and ruined is all the dark fantasy you'll need, and lots of the book takes place in dramatic European landscapes.

[Anonymous No.15433802]

>>15433780

>Dark Souls
>anything but bad

>>15433781

[Anonymous No.15433837]

Jesus, just give OP some books that aren’t from the fucking 18th century for Christ’s sake. That’s the equivalent to giving someone in their 20a high school level books.

[Anonymous No.15433866]

Goddamn, why is finding gothic stuff that isn’t romantic bullshit or from the 17/18th century so fucking hard?

[Anonymous No.15434469]

Your thread is shit and you sound like a whiny, poorly socialized teenager. Fuck the books, you'd probably benefit much more from going outside.

[Anonymous No.15434855]

>>15433346

[Anonymous No.15434866]

>>15433346
>tfw gothic style was supposed to be lively and colorful but enlightened fags pushed the dark ages meme so hard that people are still buying it centuries later

[Anonymous No.15434885]

>>15433346
I'm reading Titus Groan right now and it fits that description pretty well. The world it takes place in is dark and somber, as are most of the characters. If you like medieval fantasy I'd recommend it, although it's not really traditional fantasy in that there are no magic spells or wizards.

[Anonymous No.15434919]

>>15433837
>>15433866
Because that was the heyday of the "Gothic" ideal. Gothic literature is an offshoot of the Romantic movement. It shouldn't be surprising that a lot of the best Gothic stuff comes from that period.

[Anonymous No.15435604]

>>15433760
>Dark Souls is overrated trash and you know it
Yikes

[Anonymous No.15435628]

>>15433346
The Black Company and Tales of the South.

[Anonymous No.15435708]

>>15433346
Pic related is essentially a Gothic novel in a somewhat contemporary setting (post-war Britain)

[Anonymous No.15435712]

Any spoopy electric appliance stories? (not android/humanoid robots, not creepyfusili)

[Anonymous No.15435738]

"Gothic" fiction is essentially just Byron fanfiction, Byron is literally the base model for every Gothic hero ever.

[Anonymous No.15437086]

>>15433760
I was almost in agreement with you. Dark souls is great gothic fiction, you're trash.

[Anonymous No.15437285]

>>15433780

This is true. People focus on "hhurr durr its hard" and over look it's fantastic lore, superior level design (DS1), and attention to detail that's on par with something like MGS3

[Anonymous No.15437617]

>>15433346
As a book, I am under the impression that The Phantom of the Opera is overlooked. Most people who are aware of The Phantom of the Opera refer to either a stage or film adaptation, whereas there was an original book, all along.

[Anonymous No.15437643]

>>15433346
Gormenghast series

[Anonymous No.15437651]

do goths actually read this?

[Anonymous No.15437963]

>>15433781
>Any good gothic/dark fantasy books to read?
>*suggests early sci fi novel*

[Anonymous No.15438049]

>>15433346
Can recommend Lord Dunsany's Fifty one tales as a brief entry level collection of good gothic fiction.

[Anonymous No.15438084]

>>15435628
>The Black Company
Came here to post this. If you have any interest in the military as well, Cook manages an extremely authentic transposition of the mentality of grunts in combat. I read the entire series cover to cover multiple times in deployment.

[Anonymous No.15438270]

>>15438049
Where to find Leonard Cline's The Dark Chamber? This book shouldn't be under copyright, maybe it's uploaded somewhere, but not on archive org and libgen?

[Anonymous No.15438300]

>>15433346
As I Lay Dying

[Anonymous No.15438435]

>>15438270
Sorry, can't find it I'm afraid. Must be too obscure these days.

[Anonymous No.15438456]

>>15433346
Gormenghast trilogy.
Sandman comic books (actually pretty /lit/ by comic book standards)

[Anonymous No.15438462]

>>15435738
LOOK AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD

[Anonymous No.15438464]

>>15433346
The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton

[Anonymous No.15438465]

>>15438300
I'm gonna have to say yikes on this one my man

[Anonymous No.15439007]

>>15438435
So sad, didn't expect that book from Lovecrat's chart would be hard to find, must be something really worth reading then

[Anonymous No.15439117]

>>15439007
It's not often you find something completely absent from the internet, hope it's an interesting read for you.

[Anonymous No.15440339]

There’s an actual gothic chart

[Anonymous No.15440569]

>>15433346
Dracula is a good one -- at least the first part, Harker's account of traveling to and meeting the count, and certain other habitues in the count's castle.

[Anonymous No.15440804]

>>15433346
The Turn of the Screw

[Anonymous No.15440839]

>>15433760
fucking moron.

[Anonymous No.15441001]

>>15433346

All of H.P. Lovecrafts work and the Darkest Dungeon

[Anonymous No.15441015]

>>15433760
But I like Dark Souls. It's one of my favourite games.

[Anonymous No.15441047]

>>15437963
Stop being such a unsufferable cunt and just fucking read it