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What's your favourite horror novel, and why?

>> No.18982615
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18982615

This book

>> No.18982620

>>18982615
Because i like how it tackles non-existence and existential horror.

>> No.18982633

>>18982615
Scariest fucking thing I’ve ever read, don’t even bother with that other gay shit, this is all you need.

>> No.18983438

>>18982633
Yea bro it's trippy as fuck.

>> No.18983446

>>18982591
Unironically Stephen King

>> No.18983447

>>18982591
Anyone read Orson Scott Card's horror work?

>> No.18983467

>>18982615
I like Gardner as a person. You gotta make your bread somehow, and he's found a way. But seriously, his meming has ruined this board.

>> No.18983472

>>18983467
You actually know him or are you just memeing?

>> No.18983670

>>18983472
Most likely a larp. I’ve heard other anons claim to know him. Like how others larp about knowing hiro

>> No.18983847

Call of the Crocodile. No explanation needed.

>> No.18983983
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18983983

Because the best Horrors are real

>> No.18984060

>>18982591
No One Gets Out Alive is extremely spooky, i wouldn't call it my favourite but it's effective

>> No.18984278

>>18984060
>>18983983
>>18983847
Thanks. I’ll read em. I already know about Call of the Crocodile. But I’ll make sure to read it and the rest>>18983446 yeah he’s good. I haven’t read his newer books. Where to start?

>> No.18984555

>>18982615
It's so dark and disturbing, exploring many subversive themes which are only for mature readers. You shouldn't read these books ever unless you are sure that you can handle them because they are very intense, and frightening. Look out Steven King F Gardner is the new Steven King.

>> No.18984568
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I Am Legend because it tapped into my loneliness and social isolation
Songs Of A Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti made me uncomfortable and the language used for descriptions was intoxicating at times
The Sluts by Dennis Cooper disturbed me to my core. One moment made me cross my legs in discomfort another made me put the book down and go "ah fuck..." in disheartenment.

>> No.18984626

>>18982591

no Sax Rohmer?

>> No.18984721

>>18982591
Turn of the Screw. No other horror I've read has even approached its quality

>> No.18985083

>>18982591
I don't know if Blindness, by Saramago, counts, but that really got to me.

>> No.18986560

bump

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>The Dunwich Horror
I love the surreal madness sucking everything up.

>> No.18987013

test

>> No.18987048

>>18982591
Out of the Aeons is the only Lovecraft story I genuinely like (maybe also some of Dream cycle stuff, but to a lesser extent). It’s criminally underrated.

>> No.18987887

Call of the Crocodile

>> No.18987896

How is John Saul as a horror author? I read sleepwalk 8 years ago. I remember liking it but dont remeber mch about it. Anyone familiar with him and his work?

>> No.18988466

>>18982591
I enjoy Dracula. There's something cozy about the way all the characters join together against a common foe.