Horror lit

[Anonymous No.23783959]

Lets get a horror thread going on. What's your favorite? Any recommendations?

[Anonymous No.23783967]

Which books of blood volume is the best?

[Anonymous No.23784556]

On the cusp of fall, bump.
Comfy horror reading season incoming

[Anonymous No.23785240]

>>23783959
Just started with Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories, by Ray Russell. Trying to get through all books on this chart (and a lot of others not on here) in order to get a clear and well informed overview of horror classics (and maybe improve this chart in a year or two).

>>23783967
I found the first three to be stronger than the latter three, although the latter three still has bangers like "Down Satan!", "The Forbidden", and "The Madonna".

[Anonymous No.23785512]

>>23785240
I feel this chart is missing Michael Mcdowell and Karl Edward Wagner

[Anonymous No.23785593]

>>23785512
Nvm I missed Mcdowell lol

[Anonymous No.23785605]

My collection so far. Lapova was great,is otessa other books as good? About to start negative space. Altar on the village green was alright. It takes inspiration from the Dark Souls games,but a little too much. The main character dies and respawn resetting everything and it could get tedious.

[Anonymous No.23785660]

>>23785512
I found out about KEW after making that chart; In a Lonely Place should be on there.

[Anonymous No.23786482]

>>23783959
Check out this new cover for 'Salem's Lot...

[Anonymous No.23786489]

>>23786482
... and for The Shining. A few other of his books have new covers too but these are the ones that really stood out to me as excellent. I bought both of them

[Anonymous No.23786538]

>>23783959
Any full length horror lit from after the 1960s where the monster/villain has creepy sexual interactions with their victim a la The Exorcist, Perfume or Let the Right One In? Or like BOB and Laura in Fire Walk with Me and Pattinson and the Mermaid in the Lighthouse?
Those kind of stories are the most unsettling to me (so no erotica pls)

[Anonymous No.23786596]

>>23786538
The Haar by David Sodergren

[Anonymous No.23786662]

Thanks to the anon who recommended Twilight Eyes by Koontz a while back, it's pulpkino

[Anonymous No.23787094]

The Search for Joseph Tully by William H. Hallahan (1974): Trapped Under Ice

Another bestselling title unknown and forgotten to the general public today but which gets spoken of with much awe and respect by genre fans is The Search for Joseph Tully. Creating an inescapable mood of wintry dread hanging over a soon-to-be-demolished historical apartment building in a disused part of Brooklyn, author William H. Hallahan skillfully brings together two disparate stories in a frigid climax of suggestive '70s horror. Its use of seances, hypnosis, medieval occult thought, and Catholic heresy dates it enjoyably, its genealogical-research angle is more effective than anyone would think, and Hallahan's smooth spare style gives you just enough detail to let your imagination do some work. Sure, modern horror fiction fans might find it too spare and too tame, might find that it doesn't give the goods except in tiny measured doses at too-distant intervals; they might find it that, true, but I found it highly readable and satisfying.

Basically, I raced through Tully (perhaps a bit too quickly; there's some of that, whatchacallit, symbolism here I fear I missed) and its story of Pete Richardson, an editor who is plagued by night terrors, waking each night to a strange whooshing sound, convinced someone is about trying to murder him. His rather eccentric apartment co-dwellers don't do much to disabuse him of this notion. In fact, they alternately insist on holding a seance, or hypnotizing him, or regaling him with ancient Church heresies and the burning at the stake of Giordano Bruno. As their apartment building is threatened with being torn down by the wrecking balls getting closer daily, each neighbor moves away, leaving Richardson horribly alone, cold, frightened, perhaps paranoid or even mad.

The other story is of Matthew Willow, a young man on the titular search. Hallahan wrings solid suspense from the tricky, painstaking work of genealogical research that in other hands could become dry and boring. Why is Willow searching for Joseph Tully? Just know that he is, that's all. Being quite a research nerd myself, I was quite charmed - and sometimes chilled - by this aspect of the novel.

Honestly, I reveled in Tully's lonely, despairing, fatalistic tone. Chapters are short, enigmatic, vaguely existential. There are lots of people looking forlornly out of windows onto landscapes of frozen fields and streets and rundown cities trapped in snowy desolation, while the apartment building slowly empties out beneath swirling winds and high clouds moving out towards the black waters of the North Atlantic. Everywhere there is palpable cold and frost and snow and slush, and all the while terrors whisper across generations, mysterious terrors of vengeance and lost souls unmoored from justice and eternal rest, which only man can render unto man, no matter what.

https://toomuchhorrorfiction.blogspot.com/2010/10/search-for-joseph-tully-by-william-h.html

[Anonymous No.23787387]

>>23786662
That might have been me. Glad you enjoyed it! I still think about that book sometimes, like do I know any goblins in my life? Definitely a book to revisit a few years down the road.

[Anonymous No.23787469]

the undisputed master
the king

[Anonymous No.23787486]

Can’t believe you guys tricked me into reading The Loney and Starve Acre and they were both SHIT

[Anonymous No.23787500]

An infinite one
Carried by waves
It took 10 years to search for something
I forgot about it in 10 seconds

[Anonymous No.23787518]

>>23786538
the collector by john fowles seems to touch that area

[Anonymous No.23787563]

>>23787486
The Loney had a few promising moments, but was thoroughly meh by the end.

I looked over Starve Acre at the library, noped on it.

Kea Wilson's We Eat Our Own is not a horror novel - it's horror-adjacent, being about the making of a quasi-Cannibal Holocaust-type film - but I enjoyed it. Mostly a good read, although the last quarter or so didn't really hold together.

“The Weekender” by Jeffrey Deaver is a terrific cat-and-mouse crime story with a chilling ending that crosses the line into horror.

Peter Clines, 14, is kind of a cool, fun book.

Christopher Buehlman, The Suicide Motor Club is my favorite of his books, although they're all good to very good: The Lesser Dead, Those Across the River, and the one about the knight whose name escapes me atm (it's the most popular of his books on /lit/).

Charlie Higson, The Enemy is young adult, but I thought it was a good read. I enjoyed it, the sequels progressively less so, as the woke elements, quite restrained in the first book, became more prominent.

[Anonymous No.23787580]

>>23787563
>about the knight whose name escapes me atm (it's the most popular of his books on /lit/)
Between Two Fires. One of my all-time favorites! TSMC was good too but didn't reach the same heights. The Lesser Dead is in a TBR stack.

[Anonymous No.23787598]

>>23783959
Nathaniel Hawthorne's work is very dark gothic fiction that has a constant feeling of dread throughout most of it, notably in his short stories. The House of Seven Gables has a very oppressive and foreboding atmosphere.

[Anonymous No.23787613]

>>23787580
(samefag) I also need to read The Blacktongue Thief and its prequel The Daughters' War. Apparently they lean more to fantasy than horror but I'm excited to read them anyway.

[Anonymous No.23787679]

>>23787598
Young Goodman Brown is a banger. Still packs a wallop... and leaves a lingering chill... after almost 200 years.

[Anonymous No.23787748]

>>23787679
Are the others horror too?

[Anonymous No.23787812]

>>23787748
For the most part, no. Mind you, I am no expert in Hawthorne, but offhand, I cannot think of another of his stories that I would call a true horror story, although he wrote several "supernatural" stories, not all of which I have read, e.g.: https://www.amazon.com/Nathaniel-Hawthorne-Supernatural-Heideggers-Rappaccinis-ebook/

With that said, his stories do often have that rich gothic atmosphere mentioned by >>23787598

[Anonymous No.23789371]

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[Anonymous No.23790020]

>>23785605
Ive only read Dark Assembly and its not great. Much prefer his Slob series, despite it being pure slop.

Hes a very nice guy, though. Hard not to root for him when hes given so much for the indie horror community.

[Anonymous No.23790666]

is there any 21st-century authors that could/has exceeded Lovecraft?

[Anonymous No.23790827]

>>23787748
>>23787812
The House of Seven Gables is a basically a horror story, that hints at the supernatural through witchcraft and curses, although it's more subtle and relies more on psychological themes.

[Anonymous No.23790889]

>>23790666
Hi Satan. I wouldn't say Laird Barron has "exceeded" Lovecraft, but he's great at cosmic horror. Check out one of his short story collections, or his novel The Croning (slow burn but it's worth it).

[Anonymous No.23790917]

>>23787748
Hawthorne didn't write "horror", so much as his stories simply had a heavy emphasis on gothic-style storytelling in which he used irony to criticize puritan lifestyles of the New England area, of which he was a part of.

>The Minister's Black Veil
>The Wedding-Knell
>Rappaccini’s Daughter
>The Haunted Mind
>The Hollow of the Three Hills
>The Ambitious Guest
>Ethan Brand
>The Man of Adamant
>Roger Malvin's Burial
>Wakefield
>Feathertop
>Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

Almost none of his fiction revolves around ghouls, ghosts, and goblins, although there are a few witches here and there, witchcraft, and allusions to the supernatural and hell and damnation. He wrote very hardcore gothic fiction, and most of the stories simply have the atmosphere of dread permeating them, although some have straight-up supernatural things occurring, like The Man of Adamant. He also wrote a few humorous stories, like Mrs. Bullfrog.

I highly recommend The Hollow of the Three Hills out of the bunch, although they're all short stories, so there's nothing stopping you from reading most of the ones I mentioned in a day or two.

[Anonymous No.23791012]

>>23790889
I remember liking the first few stories of The Croning and not enjoying the last one. Someone told me all his short stories connect, and that sounds pretty interesting. I'm working my way through John Langan currently,but Barron is definitely next.

[Anonymous No.23791082]

>>23790917
Cool thanks

[Anonymous No.23791114]

>>23791012
>John Langan
Everyone loves The Fisherman, but I just found it kind of... okay. I can't even put my finger on what was wrong with it, it just didn't pull me in. I've heard his short stories are where he really shines though, so I'll be checking them out eventually.

[Anonymous No.23791282]

Ambrose Bierce is worth checking out. He wrote a number of spooky stories, most famously Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.

I basically agree with Lovecraft's assessment:
>Bierce’s work is in general somewhat uneven. Many of the stories are obviously mechanical, and marred by a jaunty and commonplacely artificial style derived from journalistic models; but the grim malevolence stalking through all of them is unmistakable, and several stand out as permanent mountain-peaks of American weird writing...
>Bierce seldom realises the atmospheric possibilities of his themes as vividly as Poe; and much of his work contains a certain touch of naiveté, prosaic angularity, or early-American provincialism which contrasts somewhat with the efforts of later horror-masters. Nevertheless the genuineness and artistry of his dark intimations are always unmistakable, so that his greatness is in no danger of eclipse. As arranged in his definitively collected works, Bierce’s weird tales occur mainly in two volumes, Can Such Things Be? and In the Midst of Life. The former, indeed, is almost wholly given over to the supernatural.
Source: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx

It might also be noted that at his best Bierce was a great prose stylist.

The one story of his I would most enthusiastically recommend is Chickamauga -- a horror story indeed, although not of the supernatural variety. I have read few if any stories that pack as much of a punch as Chickamauga. It may be his best work, but it's so transgressive and ugly that it will never receive the love and popularity that Owl Creek Bridge does (and the latter indeed is probably Bierce's most elegant and formally perfect story).

Here's a link to a nicely formatted version from the Library of America:
https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/Bierce_Chickamauga.pdf

[Anonymous No.23792033]

>>23791282
What do you think of the collection Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce? Is it a good, comprehensive collection of his horror/horrific tales?

[Anonymous No.23792266]

This is the worst shit I ever read, and it taught me a lesson. Never read books that started as creepypasta and got popular. MC gets fucked in his ass by a Giant pig monster and becomes the most edgy "badass" character I ever seen. The whole concept is really cool, though. If you kill yourself,instead of heaven or hell, you go to this place called the farm, and it's pretty much worse than hell. Wasted potential.

[Anonymous No.23793483]

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[Anonymous No.23793517]

>>23792266
Thats what you get for listening to horror podcasts

[Anonymous No.23793951]

>>23792266
>story based on a creepypasta
Should've been your first clue it was going to be shit.

[Anonymous No.23794065]

>>23792033
>What do you think of the collection Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce? Is it a good, comprehensive collection of his horror/horrific tales?
It's solid -- a good, comprehensive collection, I think. Although Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is I suppose technically neither a ghost nor a horror story, it's certainly a chilling tale, and I'm a little surprised they didn't include it. That being said, its absence is no great blemish, what with it being a familiar story to many - perhaps the editor reckoned it over-familiar - and easy enough to find in other collections and online.

[Anonymous No.23795173]

>>23794065
We might be thinking of different books - the one I was talking about is this one: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?311430
And that one does include An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.

[Anonymous No.23795290]

>>23787469
While I love his work, I never felt that any of his stories were particularly scary. They were always more interesting and fascinating than terrifying. I suppose I just don't find the concept of "wot if ur great granpa wuz a negro?" that unsettling.

[Anonymous No.23795441]

>>23792266
The original short story is pretty neat, but as I read it I immediately realized it wouldn't work as a full novel, so not surprised it's bad.

[Anonymous No.23795549]

>>23787469
Machen mogs to oblivion

[Anonymous No.23796903]

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[Anonymous No.23796926]

Listened to North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud. Liked its 'slice of gritty life' tones, but overall it was just OK.

[Anonymous No.23796937]

Arthur Gordon Pym and The Boats of the Glen Carrig are cool if you like nautical fiction as well as horror

[Anonymous No.23796954]

>>23786489
>>23786482
Very cool

[Anonymous No.23796994]

I wish to ask the thread for some recommendations. I cannot find much regarding talking skeletons. Who knows of some worthwhile reads that feature talking skeletons, especially as a chief character? Or animate skeletons in general?

Other than this request, anyone got recommends for recently written, period books? It must contain supernatural elements, and not be set in the modern period.

In exchange I will answer any questions or requests directed my way as best as I am able.

>>23785240
Haunted Castles is excellent. The stories within are all worth reading.

[Anonymous No.23797014]

>>23785605
House of Leaves was a strange one. It has some truly horrific parts that really stick with you. And there is a very intriguing revelation that you may or may not come across that almost completely ties things up in a satisfying and rather moving way in my opinion. But it gets very dry, and some of the characters are just too repugnant and obnoxious. I don't know if I'd recommend it, but for what it is worth, I am glad I read it. But what a selfish book.

[Anonymous No.23797152]

>>23796994
I finished Sardonicus yesterday, and I'm very impressed. Now halfway through Sagittarius!

[Anonymous No.23797155]

>>23790917
The Maypole of Merry Mount could technically be classified as a horror tale, from a certain point of view.

[Anonymous No.23797198]

>>23796937
Nice recommend, I'll have to check that out. I love obscure early horror like this.

[Anonymous No.23797541]

>>23795173
>https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?311430
Yes, I was looking at a different book that had the same or a similar title. This one has all the major Bierce stories in the "ghost and horror" vein. It's a nice selection, including some items I haven't read. I would only add - do seek out Chickamauga, because it's probably the most horrifying story he ever wrote.

[Anonymous No.23798035]

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[Anonymous No.23798635]

>>23797198
William Hope Hodgson also wrote The Ghost Pirates, and a lot of nautical short stories. Check out his Sargasso Sea stories, and "The Voice in the Night".

>>23797541
Thanks, nice to know it's pretty comprehensive. And I will, I'm pretty interested now!

[Anonymous No.23799805]

Best cosmic horror lit that isn't Lovecraft?

[Anonymous No.23800114]

>>23799805
>Robert W. Chambers - The King in Yellow
>William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland
>Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan // "The White People"
>Algernon Blackwood - "The Willows"
>T.E.D. Klein - Dark Gods // The Ceremonies
>Thomas Ligotti - Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe
>Laird Barron - The Imago Sequence and Other Stories // Occultation and Other Stories
>John Langan - The Fisherman

[Anonymous No.23800141]

I'll recommend Mark Samuels because he died recently and despite not being an obscure author (evident by this "best of" anthology) he's still quite underrated. In part, perhaps, because he was a bit opinionated on some matters which caused some bigger names like Laird Barron and John Langan to take issue with him personally and mock and take shots at him in their fiction. But fuck them, Mark Samuels was a good author of spooky stories. If you like writers like Thomas Ligotti or Ramsey Campbell, and want to read a story about language being a virus or how insanity is the metaphysical counterpart of reality then check him out.

[Anonymous No.23800214]

>>23800141
Do you know what the strong opinion stuff was about?
And is his best of collection his best work to read? I haven't read anything by him yet and this one is on my tbr

[Anonymous No.23800321]

>>23800141
>he was a bit opinionated on some matters which caused some bigger names like Laird Barron and John Langan to take issue with him personally
I've never heard of him, but what did he do to piss off the big names in the genre?

[Anonymous No.23800335]

>>23797198
William Hope Hodgson is awesome, The House on the Borderland and The Night Land are absolutely amazing, psychedellic.

[Anonymous No.23800362]

>>23787486
First third of Starve Acre was solid. As soon as The Beacons came it became a bit stereotypical. When Jack Grey was the fucking spoopy hare all along it had lost.

[Anonymous No.23800380]

Let the Right One In is still probably my favourite

[Anonymous No.23800388]

>>23800380
I read this one this year. I thought it was pretty good but the pedo shit was a bit excessive. Pissed me off that the villain got away with it all too, props to the author for that

[Anonymous No.23800578]

>>23800214
the best of collection is surprisingly good, has stuff from all his collections. but if you want to pick something specific either The White Hands or Written in Darkness

>>23800214
>>23800321
on one hand he posted things that went against communism and its permeating in the sociocultural discourse which led some people to accuse him of being "far right" and shit. he also turned to catholicism and he saw modernity as basically profane, and spoke about how for everyone "progress" is always a good thing you can't criticize or question
on the other (and this is mostly gossip and i don't have a first-hand account of anything so grab your salt shaker), one of his books lost a literary award to a newcomer female author and it seems mark threw some shade at her, or posted something that was interpreted as such. later he wrote a story in which a woman was killed and the woman happened to have the same name as the deceased sister of that female author, and she and her friends (which include barron and langan) interpreted it as a petty personal attack and started calling him out on it. mark said it was an unfortunate coincidence, and he never reprinted the piece anywhere. years later both barron and langan would write stories ("more dark" and "into the darkness" respectively) featuring a writer who is beheaded by a woman he wronged, his head stuffed in a fridge, and his wake is only attended by his editor, no friends or colleagues. the stories are very different but the writer in both suffers an identical fate. barron does name him "mark s." (and it could be argued his story is an in-joke, as it features a bunch of others famous horror writers as characters but the bit about mark is outstandingly mean-spirited), langan doesn't name his character as mark or samuels, but the writer suffers the exact same end as barron's, so it doesn't seem coincidental

[Anonymous No.23800588]

>>23800578
>all of that

Yikes. It was incredibly cruel to name the dead girl after the author's deceased sister, if that really was his intent. It seems like a pretty big "coincidence."

[Anonymous No.23800614]

>>23800578
Why are authors so cowardly and pathetic?

[Anonymous No.23800949]

>>23800141
>If you like writers like Thomas Ligotti or Ramsey Campbell, and want to read a story about language being a virus or how insanity is the metaphysical counterpart of reality then check him out.
That sounds pretty interesting and I love Ligotti so I'll definitely be putting this on my list.

[Anonymous No.23801002]

>>23800380
How's the book compared to the movie?

[Anonymous No.23801111]

>>23798635
>and a lot of nautical short stories
Frank Cowper's Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk is a pretty good old-time ghost story.

[Anonymous No.23801354]

>>23801002
The Swedish one is great, the American is bad. The book has a lot more about Oskars home life and Ellie's backstory

[Anonymous No.23802389]

is this any good?

[Anonymous No.23802684]

Was stoked for Laird Barron's new short story collection but I'm almost done already and every single story fucking B L O W S.

I'm actually shocked how bad they are.

[Anonymous No.23802696]

>>23795549
Based based based! William Hope Hodgeson is great too.

[Anonymous No.23802700]

>>23800114
>Algernon Blackwood - "The Willows"
I will never understand this recommendation.

[Anonymous No.23802706]

>>23800141
>>>because he was a bit opinionated on some matters which caused some bigger names like Laird Barron and John Langan to take issue with him personally and mock and take shots at him in their fiction

Such as what exactly? I've never really picked up on it.

[Anonymous No.23802719]

>>23802706
See >>23800578

>>23802684
What did you think of his other works? I haven't read anything from him yet

[Anonymous No.23802834]

>>23802719
>>23802719
I first read Occultation back around 2008 and loved it, I feverishly sought out every bit of Laird Barron literature I could find over the years, he's been one of my favorite authors for a long time..

His first few short story collections are great, Occultation, The Imago Sequence, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and his first real novel, The Croning, I've loved 'em all.

Things did seem to start going down hill in terms of quality around Swift To Chase though, The Light Is The Darkness, X's For Eyes....

I could go on and on, he's got some really great stories out there, this most recent collection though make, "Not A Speck Of Light" there's not been a single story in it that scratches the itch.. They ALL seem totally lackluster.

Oh well, they can't all be winners all of the time I suppose.

I've often recommended him to other anons here but they usually come back saying they didn't like any of his stuff so I dunno...

My advice? Read Occultation and The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All for short story collections first, possibly The Imago Sequence as well and then read The Croning, if you aren't hooked by then you never will be.

His stories involving the children of Old Leech are where it's really at.

[Anonymous No.23802956]

>>23783959
Any good werewolf books? Not a furfag

[Anonymous No.23802970]

>>23802956
Nope, none. Zero. Zilch, nada.

[Anonymous No.23803012]

>>23802956
Ravenous and its sequel Bestial by Ray Garton. Gory horrific books where the werewolf "curse" is spread as an STD!

[Anonymous No.23803027]

>>23802389
I own it but haven't read it yet. I've heard nothing but good things about it though.

[Anonymous No.23803113]

>>23802834
Thanks, I'll start with some of his early short story collections then!

[Anonymous No.23803140]

>>23803012
>the werewolf "curse" is spread as an STD!
So it's just vampirism?

[Anonymous No.23803158]

>>23803140
That's not even how vampirism works

[Anonymous No.23803181]

>>23803140
>His stories involving the children of Old Leech are where it's really at.
No, you fuck someone infected and turn into a werewolf. Nothing to do with vampirism.

[Anonymous No.23803211]

>>23802684
That sucks. Considering hes been on deaths door for the past year or so you'd think they'd be a bit better

[Anonymous No.23803240]

>>23803211
>hes been on deaths door for the past year
QRD?

[Anonymous No.23803347]

>>23803240
some sort of sickness, I was following his twitter which he has posted on for a while due to being in hospital and nearly paralyzed by something

[Anonymous No.23803375]

>>23803347
That's too bad. I like his older stuff.

[Anonymous No.23803377]

>>23802684
>>23802719
>>23802834
>>23803347
>>23803240
he was never really that good
his story about underground insect bug things that's in one of his first collections is good but the rest are medicore
and there's the fact that he's a woke guy who LARPs as a hard-bitten outdoorsman

[Anonymous No.23803382]

>>23803377
>he's a woke guy who LARPs as a hard-bitten outdoorsman
Why can't he be both? You can hunt and fish without registering Republican.

[Anonymous No.23803384]

>>23786489
>>23786482
holy based, hopefully this kicks off a resurgence in neoretro horror covers

[Anonymous No.23803392]

>>23803382
Hard to hunt and fish when you're trying to pass laws to ban guns and add layers and layers of permitting to both gunting and fishing. Such a person would be very unintelligent.

[Anonymous No.23803398]

>>23803384
I especially like that the window in 'Salem's Lot is shaped like a coffin and there's a big cross in the middle. The Shining with Wendy and Danny being menaced by the hedge animals while Jack screams in the middle of a snowstorm is kino too. I think it's actually the first cover since the OG hardback that features the hedge animals.

[Anonymous No.23803408]

>>23803392
Just sayin', they're out there. Lot of them in the PNW and I'm guessing Alaska too.

[Anonymous No.23803415]

>>23803408
Added to which, most of these people would probably tell you they vote Democratic to protect national lands and allow hunting and fishing in the commons.

[Anonymous No.23803425]

>>23803415
No doubt, but that isn't what the people they vote for are actually doing.

[Anonymous No.23803443]

>>23803415
>vote republican to cut the forest down for profit
>vote democrat to cut the forest down for migrant housing
Suffering.

[Anonymous No.23803452]

>/pol/ fags infecting our comfy horror thread

OUT OUT OUT

[Anonymous No.23803465]

>>23796994
Humbly re-requesting skelton books...

[Anonymous No.23803469]

>>23803443
Democrats' environmental laws protected huge swathes of forest in the PNW, which is what their urban base wants. Loggers historically were actually Democrats, going all the way back to the Depression and New Deal. They were loyal too- I'm talking they voted McGovern over Nixon, Mondale over Reagan. The big shift really happened in the Clinton years and even then there were isolated logging communities that voted for Obama. That end all ended in 206 when they gave historic devastating landslide margins to Trump and now they're firmly MAGA.

>>23803452
Sorry, this will be my last political post

[Anonymous No.23803475]

>>23803469
*That all ended in 2016

[Anonymous No.23803489]

>>23803465
Find something by William W. Johnstone. At least they all have skeletons on the covers.

[Anonymous No.23803492]

>>23802956
Cycle of the Werewolf. Those Across the River

[Anonymous No.23803607]

>>23803489
While I do like this cover and the book seems interesting, I am not sure it has a talking skeleton in it unfortunately. It does look good though, I'll add it to my list and I thank you.

[Anonymous No.23804326]

Got pic related next.
Only heard good things.

[Anonymous No.23804364]

Authors with great (poetic) prose, descriptions of nature/landscapes/atmosphere?

What I have:

-Old guys (Lovecraft, Machen, Blackwood, Clark Ashton Smith)

-New weird guys (Ligotti, Langan, Ballingrud, Barron)

-Karl Edward Wagner - In a Lonely Place


Who else?

[Anonymous No.23804383]

Is this book any good? It seems interesting and I have mostly heard praise for it, but I've also been told that it is very reddit/video game/anime like as well. What is the truth?

[Anonymous No.23805039]

>>23804383

Both things are true, I would say. It's a meticulously researched and extremely aesthetically focused series of more or less episodic adventures festuring a big knight, a little girl, and a corrupt priest fighting monsters on their way to meet the pope in medieval france during the black plague.

It's extremely well written, atmospheric, and creative and stays consistent in quality all the way through. The tone is fairly steely.

I read it and enjoyed the hell out of it, would highly recommend

[Anonymous No.23805390]

>>23802956
David Wellington, Frostbite
Jeff Strand, Wolf Hunt

Not classics, but I enjoyed both.

[Anonymous No.23805432]

>>23804383
it reminds me a lot of Berserk by Kentaro Miura. I'm not really into anime of manga,but I loved it. If you read and like it you'll enjoy this. I pretty much read every medieval horror book out there, and between two fires is the best one with Hollow by brian catling being a close second.

[Anonymous No.23805542]

>>23804364
Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber
Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Cormac McCarthy - Child of God (if you count that as horror)

[Anonymous No.23805924]

Damn, I just finished Laird Barron's Not A Speck Of Light.... That afterward explains a lot..

I had no idea the guy had almost dies over the last couple of years.

[Anonymous No.23806833]

It really hard to find Aickman in my country for what ever reason. Might have to bite the bullet and order it through amazon

[Anonymous No.23807628]

bump

[Anonymous No.23808331]

>>23783959
I thought this was a pretty good horror lit despite focusing on real life occurrences. There was another book recommended here once was Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder. The first ten or fifteen pages disgusted me and I never finished it.

[Anonymous No.23808641]

>>23807628
Based Halloween Chad

[Anonymous No.23808651]

I've got the following lined up for October.
>Great God Pan
>The Wendigo
>Turning of the Screw
>Haunting of Hill House

[Anonymous No.23808737]

>>23808651
I'm going to reread 'Salem's Lot, Gerald's Game, and possibly Pet Semetary by King.

[Anonymous No.23808746]

>>23808737
Pet Semenary is better. More horrifying. A kind of Furry Name of the Rose.

[Anonymous No.23809208]

>>23805432
>>23805039
But are the Christian elements handled properly or is it more like an atheistic "window dressing Christianity" aesthetic?

[Anonymous No.23809302]

>>23800141
Second this. Im not very into the genre or subgenre or whatever but Ive wanted to see "whats after Ligotti" and have read Mark Samuels, Matt Cardin and Jon Padgett in a short span. IMO Samuels is by far the best and more interesting. In fact, it surprised me how good it is. Cardin is also quite good but... whatever.

[Anonymous No.23809666]

>>23809208
The priest is gay, the knight is cool with that and defends him against bigots who don't understand that love is love, and the little girl is actually Jesus. Oh, and the knight fights possessed statues of Mary and smashes them.

[Anonymous No.23809871]

>>23808651
>>23808737
Karl Edward Wagner
MR James
Ambrose Bierce
Poe

Short story maxing for October

[Anonymous No.23809886]

What's a good recommendation for something similar to Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler?
It's a series of short stories describing an apocalypse where the sky starts raining everything imaginable except water. At the same time reality itself is tearing at the seams. Butler really writes about the apocalypse in a schizophrenic fashion where one event juts to another without rhyme or reason, and the imagery conjured up with the prose is just fantastical and grim.

[Anonymous No.23810013]

>>23804383
Masterpiece >>23809208
It’s not particularly irreverent but it’s not a theistic book, if that makes sense. It has an interesting take on god and hell. It’s sort of implied that everyone is god.

[Anonymous No.23810470]

>>23809666
That's unfortunate. That was the vibe I was getting from it.

[Anonymous No.23810490]

Any recs for horror that fits the folk horror genre? Like maybe small Pagan civilization setting, kind of like the movies Apostle or The Ritual (and Midsommar though I thought it was pretty bad)

[Anonymous No.23810695]

>>23810490
If you're into older stuff, check out Arthur Machen!

[Anonymous No.23810872]

>>23796994
The Animated Skeleton, a gothic novella, i belive has a talking skeleton; haven't read it yet. i know he moves

the manuscript found in the saragossa has a small tale the main charater reads where a skeleton attacks a man

[Anonymous No.23810913]

I'm curious? For those who only read horror around this time of year, how come? I'm guessing it's the same thing as only watching Christmas movies during the holidays,right? I read horror year round, and every time I recommend a book to a friend, they say they'll check it out during October. What does reading it a certain time of the year do for you?

[Anonymous No.23810919]

>>23810913
I'm an all round horror reader, so I can't answer your question, but what are some of your favourites?

[Anonymous No.23811023]

>>23810919
I'm really into horror where people are sent into different other worldly places with a lot going on. Not a ton of books like that I can find,but I would say, "A short stay in hell by steven Peck" is my favorite when it comes to that setting.

Hellmouth by Glies Kristen,The troop by Nick Cutter,Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud,The Hike by Drew Magary,Lost Gods by Brom and
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins. Right now, I'm halfway through Feesters in the Lake & Other Stories by Bob Leman and enjoying it. Leman wrote my favorite short story so far, which was Window.

I just started reading horror a year ago after reading nothing but fantasy for years,so if you have any recommendations, I'd appreciate it.

[Anonymous No.23811258]

>>23809886
Ive not read Scorch Atlas, but the description sounds bit like Wyrd by Adam Nevill. Descriptions of forgotten/apocalyptic landscapes with no real narrative, just the inherent weirdness of it all.

[Anonymous No.23811332]

>>23783959
Currently still making my way through Songs of A Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

[Anonymous No.23811783]

>>23810013
Wow that doesn't sound interesting at all, and sounds really gay actually, thanks taking it off my wishlist.

[Anonymous No.23811938]

Hello /lit/. I am new to this board, and am trying to see if I am a better fit for the Science Fiction & Fantasy General or Horror thread.

I am looking for recommendations for books, preferably that are available on audible, and that are similar in nature to Stephen King's works and Neil Gaiman's works. Also what are your favorite books from both Stephen King and Neil Gaiman? It would be nice to know if I missed any gems from either of them, even if they are very popular books from them. Please let me know guys. Thank you!

[Anonymous No.23812018]

>>23800578
>>23802706
>>23800321
I'm pretty sure Langan is a literal cuckhold, so many of his short stories are about a character getting their "comeupance" for not forgiving their wife for whoring around or grandstanding about a woman commiting adultery lmao his wife definitely cheated on him.

[Anonymous No.23813399]

>>23811938
I've only read Coraline from Gaiman, but I would highly recommend it for people into horror. It is very creepy for a children's horror novel.
As for King, I've read 7 books by him, and the ones I was most impressed with were The Shining, Misery, and 'Salem's Lot.
I haven't read him myself, but his son Joe Hill's works are pretty similar to King's.
If you want something that's both easy to read and psychological horror (like King's work often is), definitely check out Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin. Others I can recommend are:
>Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
>Robert Bloch - Psycho
>William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist
>Clive Barker - Books of Blood, The Hellbound Heart
>Thomas Harris - Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs