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I'm looking for some "scientists accidentally discover horrific paranatural thing that ends up with a lot of dead people" books. Preferably if it involves a dig-site.
I've read the appropriate tie-in novels, but that's not even close enough to scratching my itch. Any recommendations would be appreciated. I will not be accepting meme books at this time, thank you.

>> No.20676388

You've read At The Mountains of Madness, right?

>> No.20676409

>>20676388
yeah

>> No.20676414

>>20676409
Although I haven't read it, and they're not exactly scientists, you might like The Terror. I watched the TV series (its a stand alone season) and thought it was pretty great.

>men on a ship
>mutiny
>starvation
>ice blocking their way
>supernatural monster picking them off

Might be your cup of tea.

>> No.20676421

Annihilation

>> No.20676429

>>20676414
Thank you, I did read it, and I did really enjoy it, but I think that there was no way for him to follow up on that incredible set-up of them peeling back the hull to reveal the hole in the ice. It was the best part, and the rest of monster story just couldn't live up to it. Still great though.

>>20676421
Read that one too, but it's not quite what I'm looking for.

>> No.20676451

The Taoists who created gunpowder

>> No.20676471

>>20676451
No piss, please.

>> No.20677476

Bump

>> No.20677704

Cat's Cradle

>> No.20678459

Annihilation

>> No.20678468

>>20676371
Jursssic Park?
Andromeda?
Prey?
Congo?

>> No.20678488

>>20678468
Read all of them and enjoyed them greatly. Relic, too.

>> No.20679963

At least one of Land's horror novellas has this sort of a vibe to it

>> No.20680100
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20680100

>>20676371
Not a dig site but close enough

>> No.20680114

Gemma Files' short story Anasazi

She has a lot of Lovecraftian digsite stories

>> No.20680700

>>20680100
>>20680114
thanks, I'll check these out

>> No.20680711

>>20680100
love this book

>> No.20680717

>>20680100
>>20680700
blindsight is absolutely fire, you won't be disappointed. two funny things about it though:

1) it was published at peak Twilight fervor and he ridiculously included "vampires" in this book perhaps to capitalize on this, some people say. lol. personally i thought the vampire concept was okay, there were some retarded aspects but it's not as offensively bad as some people say. book coulda been better without it though

2) according to his blog i read forever ago, peter watts appears to believe he has invented the concept of epiphenomalism with this book which... he is a few centuries late (Hume). somebody pointed this out on the comments so maybe he's over that kek. also he appears to be a massive liberal fag which is disappointing, borderline TDS type

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>>20676371
A group of scientists find a huge stone shaped like an egg in Turkey during an excavation, which the lead scientist believes to be related to Gnosticism. Most people who come in contact with the stone dies of some unknown form of radiation, so the stone is moved to a remote town in the US an put under care of the US army. A few months later, everyone in the town wakes up in an alternate timeline where Gnosticism is the major religion in America and Europe, and the US, Canada and France have merged into a fascist superstate.
Hilarity ensues.

>> No.20681702

>>20680826
that sounds insane

>> No.20681711

>>20676371
Phantoms by Dean Koontz, it's a bit cheesy like most of this stuff but it's pretty much about exactly what you want

>> No.20681716

>>20681711
Also The Keep by F. Paul Wilson

>> No.20682796

>>20681702
It is. The end is even fucking weirder.

>> No.20683317

>>20681711
Oh, I read that one. I liked it. I especially liked it when the entity started calling every a boring cunt. Very entertaining.

>>20681716
Haven't heard of that, but will check it out, thank you!

>> No.20683658

>>20680826
>Turkey
>big egg
hahahahaha

>> No.20684069

>>20676371
Play doom 4

>> No.20684132

>>20684069
As I said, I already read the appropriate tie in books. The Doom3 books by Costello are actually pretty damn good. The ones by ab Hugh and Linaweaver are hot garbage, though.

>> No.20684192

Earthcore
The Ice Limit
Riptide
The Third Gate
Deep Storm

>> No.20684493

>>20684192
thank you, i*ll check them out

>> No.20685794

>>20676371
Bumpido

>> No.20686161

last bump

>> No.20686941

>>20676371
Who goes there

>> No.20687119

>>20676429
>Thank you, I did read it, and I did really enjoy it, but I think that there was no way for him to follow up on that incredible set-up of them peeling back the hull to reveal the hole in the ice. It was the best part, and the rest of monster story just couldn't live up to
I know right? Insane reveal, felt like nothing came of it tho...

>> No.20687168

>>20687119
He set the bar too high. That's the kind of thing you can only get away with in a short story without a monster reveal or something. I've tried to think up an ending that would have done it justice, but I just can't. Maybe if it was some kind of alien?

>> No.20687982

>>20676371
Stephen King's The Mist.

>> No.20688152

>>20687982
I'm too scared it ends like the movie. I would not survive that.