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MODERN HORROR?

recommend modern horror

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why isn't their a chart yet for purely modern horror

>> No.17896782
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17896782

>>17895655
I made this chart that is mostly just the last ten years of weird/horror short story collections.

If there is interest I can make a more general one. How far back should I go to still count as ‘modern’?

>> No.17897139

>>17896782
that's good actually, do you have any more?

>> No.17897498

Call of the Crocodile by F. Gardner

>> No.17898052

>>17896782
which of these is good?

>> No.17898637

>>17896782
Post your top five please.

>> No.17898797

>>17895655
The Fisherman is great. Was thinking about reading it again just today.

>> No.17898825

>>17895655
I will get hate for saying this, but:
Metro 2033
I read the book way before the game came out, and the lonely, dystopian, worst-of-humanity kind of atmosphere, coupled with the barely-in-sight horror and the claustrophobia of the setting was absolutely amazing. Contained some of the best horror scenes I've ever read. It was just a good fucking book.

>> No.17899878

>>17898052
>>17898637
From this Chart S Tier
Teatro Grottesco by Ligotti

The Best of Mark Samuels

Songs for the Unravelling of the World by Brian Evenson

A+ Tier:
Occultations by Laird Barron

Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud

The Best of Caitlin R Kiernan

That said, there are are least some stories in every one of these collections that are very good.

>>17897139
I made a general horror one, but I don’t really like it anymore and I’m trying to do a V2 on it.

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17899952

>>17896782
Also I really ought to have titled it this. I wanted to capture just how many really good story collections have been published in the last 10-15 years.

Also I’ll put together a ‘21st Century Horror’ with both novels and story collections soon.

>> No.17899972

>>17899878
>>17899952
Neat, thanks anon

>> No.17900231

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. fisherman felt completely amateur. Shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same breath as Ligotti

>> No.17900235

>>17899878
How does teatro grotesco compare to his other work? only read part of songs of a dead dreamer so far

>> No.17900288

>>17895655
Sell me on The Fisherman, looks cool at a glance.

>> No.17901300

>>17900235
It feels like a natural evolution id say. More abstract, but still clearly Ligotti. A lot of deranged people having terrible nightmares.

>> No.17901308

>>17901300
Nice, it sounds relatable.

>> No.17901631

>>17897498
based

>> No.17902307

>>17899952
thanks

>> No.17902338

>>17900235
It's his best and funniest. Ligotti's first two collections are distinctly him but still with a pulp influence, however his later two collections become more and more philosophically powerful and even the individual stories start assembling into a greater view on existence.
Do this anon:

https://youtu.be/lxZpEFJhO6k

Listen to this. Now as you cover more and more ground through his fiction, this poem wil start to unravel.