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18032559

Anonymous Thu Apr 15 12:44:19 2021 No.18032559 [Reply] [Original]

name ONE better horror writer
i dare you

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 12:45:17 2021 No.18032571 >Ahhhh it’s purple!!

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 12:46:20 2021 No.18032580 UNSPEAKABLE ELDRITCH HORRORS LURKING IN THE DEEP RECESSES OF THE EARTH ARGHHH I'M TURNING CRAZY

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 12:46:46 2021 No.18032586 >>18032571 >>18032580 you both are gay

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 12:52:09 2021 No.18032618 Michael Crighton.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 12:55:59 2021 No.18032655 >>18032559 pooh sheisty

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 12:56:44 2021 No.18032664 >>18032559 Edgar Allen Poe Stephen King Harlan Ellison Lovecraft is at least top 5 all-time but these are other writers I prefer over him.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 13:06:51 2021 No.18032749 >>18032559 Thomas Ligotti, unironically

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 13:25:33 2021 No.18032918 >>18032749 C R I N G E

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 13:27:27 2021 No.18032937 >>18032664 >Edgar Allen Poe Allan*, and yes, a worthy rival. >Stephen King Meme but has some decent stories. >Harlan Ellison Never heard of her besides the sci-fi story about an evil computer called AM

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 13:34:41 2021 No.18032997 >>18032664 i read lots of ellison but only two were great. a few were good

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 13:36:48 2021 No.18033019 File: 294 KB, 1587x2048, Bram_Stoker_1906.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Chad Stoker

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 13:42:44 2021 No.18033065 >>18032918 why don’t you like ligotti?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 13:47:35 2021 No.18033105 >>18032937 >her

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 13:47:41 2021 No.18033106 >>18032559 Ligotti trashes this fraud.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 13:50:59 2021 No.18033132 >>18033065 I have only read the conspiracy against human race and my mind instinctively went there with the "parent of all horrors" cringefest

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 13:57:56 2021 No.18033195 >>18032559 never read any Lovecraft. Which book would you recommend to start off with?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 13:59:26 2021 No.18033206 >>18033132 you haven't really read Ligotti then...

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 14:02:27 2021 No.18033224 File: 240 KB, 880x1360, 71Quu32F8fL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18032559 OH NO NO NO NO NO

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 14:09:31 2021 No.18033276 File: 28 KB, 320x320, Ev903cyWYAEZddc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18032559

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 14:11:47 2021 No.18033291 Robert W. Chambers W.H. Hodgson Clark Ashton Smith Mathew Lewis

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 14:15:25 2021 No.18033322 >>18033019 The Judge's House is my favorite, I read it in 2008 in highschool and it was great to rediscover it in 2019 when I read an anthology of Stoker's stories. When I was I teenager I had no idea that it was written by the author of Dracula.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 14:17:50 2021 No.18033345 horror is supposed to scary, OP, and the only people who find 'you aren't important in the grand scheme of things' scary are teenagers or narcissists >>18032664 >king >>>>>ellison lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 14:18:21 2021 No.18033348 >>18032559 He was a racist. And his writings were based on his isobel racist fears.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 14:19:22 2021 No.18033360 >>18033019 >victorian era values some of the driest, most uninteresting stories I've ever read >victorian era prose pretty though

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 14:20:28 2021 No.18033371 >>18032559 NIGGERMAN HELP ME AAAAAAAAAAAAA I SAW A NIGGER AND NOW I AM GOING INSANE HELP MEEEEEEE

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 14:21:03 2021 No.18033374 >>18033371 can you blame the man?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 14:23:28 2021 No.18033385 >>18033371 Literally my father the first time he passed by the US on his way to Japan.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 15:46:17 2021 No.18033946 >>18032559 I'll give you two for the price of one. Junji Ito and Thomas Ligotti.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 15:58:05 2021 No.18034010 >>18032559 oral tradition for sure

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 15 15:59:34 2021 No.18034022 >>18032559 Algernon Blackwood >>18033065 >>18033106 >>18034010 Ligotti's "philosophy" book is so unbelievably shit that whatever talent he has as writer is overshadowed by the immense cringe of it.