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I need some horror. Specifically, I'm looking for things outside of murderers and serial killers.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

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HP Lovecraft?

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>> No.1649778

some of Borges's stuff, McTeague, uhhh like books about the triangle shirtwaist fire and the coal mining strikes? i am not making fun, these are legit suggestions

>> No.1649783

>>1649778
also i was gonna recommend John Bellairs but i might be wearing nostalgia goggles re his work because i have not read any in +/- 10 years
also blindness by saramago

>> No.1649785

The Mothman Prophecies (supposedly true)

John Dies at the End (I have this from the library, it's next after I finish Starship Troopers)

>> No.1649793

>>1649776
And when you're done with Lovecraft, grab some Frank B Long, August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith...some of that stuff might be a bit hard to track down but it's worth it. I was actually visiting family in Fruijta (last real town between Grand Junction and the Utah border) where the library is about 1000 square feet and I found a copy of Long's "Hounds of Tindalos and other weird Tales" on the take a book, leave a book stand. Yeah, I left them a brand new bestseller by some big name author (think it might have been Grisham, it was years ago) for a beat up old paper back of four short stories.

>> No.1649972

John Dies At The End?

>> No.1649981

Breat Easton Ellis?

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This.

Some parts aren't written the best but there is a feeling of unease that accompanies certain sections of the book.

>> No.1650007

Are you male? Are you over the age of 21?

Read The Travelling Vampire Show.

>> No.1650015

Lovecraft is terrible don't listen to these fags.
Well, so is pretty much all horror fiction.
You might as well stop reading if that's what you're into.

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>>1649989
yeah. do this.
also The King in Yellow
also Lovecraft
also HoL (deal with iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttt)
also some Algernon Blackwood

>> No.1650041

Bentley Little tends to write very formulaic stories, but more about hauntings/strange influences in a very horrific fashion, instead of serial killers. He's got a number of good books, all with simple titles.

Edward Lee writes splatterpunk stuff, so there's a lot of gore and shit and semen and other bodily things thrown about. It's not serious stuff in the least but it's fun if you got it.

Brian Keene writes monsters. Zombies, primarily, but also other spirits from beyond.

Jack Ketchum writes about the monsters that people can be (not really serial killer-esque, but his book The Girl Next Door is based almost entirely on a true story, which makes the whole thing profoundly depressing).

Richard Laymon writes horror very well, but his stories tend to focus on the small scale, though some (like the aforementioned Travelling Vampire Show) involve the supernatural.

>> No.1650047

>>1650023

Is HPL brashe? Are you trying to spell "brash"? I think being an insane white-power racist is pretty brash. You have shitty taste in books! HoL, HPL, fuck you, dork!

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>>1650041
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens

>> No.1650063

>>1650047
And Brahms was an anti-semite but that doesn't mean that he music doesn't rock as hard. I hate you faggots. BLAH BLAH BLAH CHARACTER FLAWS MAKE THEIR ART NOT MATTER BLAH BLAH BLAH.
Get off your high horse you white knight, christ cock sucking, motherfucker. FUCK I HATE YOU PEOPLE.

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>>1650047
bro-brew-bruh-brah-brajh-brashe
lol lrn2 evolution fggt.

>> No.1650111

>>1650063
HPL's race politics figure FUNDAMENTALLY in his ideas. It's all about corruption and usurpation (by niggers). He can't even really write that well; his shtick is allowing the reader to create their own monsters by leaving descriptions nebulous and speaking in nonexistent references. This is another reason I love tripfags. Were the greasy bespectacled HPL nerd dork faggot anonymous, s/h/it could simply back away and resolve to better their self. But ego has been brought into the picture, and now whenever you read "\/1Rgin \/\/00x00F" or whatever, you are gonna think, "HPL HPL HPL steampunk HPL" and you are gonna rule out anything they say, thereby saving yourself the time it'd take to read their shit. Thanks for being so considerate, tripfag!

>> No.1650113

>>1650063
>white knight
See, this guy isn't using a trip, so I can't ID him at a glance as the goon who hates women. That sucks for me because it wastes time.
>>1650065
Privilege your words over those of others, it really does endear you to anybody who does not eat shit.

>> No.1650119

>>1650111
No, they don't. At least not beyond some of his first amateurish attempts.

He eventually wrote past that and tried to bring about the concept of alien. The idea that there are things out there in the universe so utterly distant to us that we could comprehend nothing about them. That there's no reason for aliens to have a male/female, to know of love or hate or even death. He said, essentially, that if there is an alien in a story and someone can bond with it, make sense of it, then it's being written wrong.

>> No.1650132

>>1650119
to quote:
Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large. To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and the local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds or other universes. To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all. Only the human scenes and characters must have human qualities. These must be handled with unsparing realism, (not catch-penny romanticism) but when we cross the line to the boundless and hideous unknown – the shadow-haunted Outside – we must remember to leave our humanity and terrestrialism at the threshold.