Horror Novels

[Anonymous No.20420844]

What are the best horror novels a reactionary would enjoy?

Why do I specify "reactionary"? Because I don't want any of that feminist allegory bullshit. I read to escape the modern world, not indulge in it.

[Anonymous No.20420847]

>>20420844
>oh no i'm going crazy from looking at alien

[Anonymous No.20420863]

>>20420847
Th-that's M. R. James, bro
Not Lovecraft.

[Anonymous No.20421287]

bump

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.20421297]

Check out the Hill of Dreams by machen. It’s beautiful prose and you’ll enjoy the themes and sentiment.

[Anonymous No.20421312]

If you're looking for horror novels, I'd say to start with Call of the Crocodile by F. Gardner.
>A dark fantasy horror novel, set during Halloween. After a boy is eaten alive by a crocodile, his family begins a descent into madness and terror in this odyssey of modern horror.
>Part of a series of interconnected horror novels that can be read in any order. Each book serves as a stand alone story, yet builds a greater picture behind a sinister mystery in Chicago.

[Anonymous No.20421326]

>>20421312
I know this has become a meme, but I really do want to own this book, if only for that purpose.

[Anonymous No.20421333]

>>20421326

[Anonymous No.20421876]

Call of the Cradle by F. Gardener. It is his best work!

[Anonymous No.20422140]

>>20420844
Not novels but short stories by Lovecraft, Machen, M.R. James, Robert Aickman and Mark Samuels

[Anonymous No.20422193]

>>20422140
Already have most of those. Looking for longer form tales to see how that's done, especially more "modern" ones.

[Anonymous No.20422949]

Probably “Call of the Crocodile.” Pic related. It has a really good twist and is like Goosebumps for adults XD

[Anonymous No.20423004]

Down there by Huysmans

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.20423015]

>>20423004
I guess the whole durtal series would count right?

[Anonymous No.20423055]

>>20423015
I have not read the book, except a few sentences on an online pdf. But some pages are very horrific. I think the narrator condemn the modern era, so it could be of interest to OP.

[Anonymous No.20423060]

>>20420844
>reactionary
Go back to the classics and fundamentals - see Lovecraft's essay on Supernatural Horror
https://www.26reads.com/library/44862-supernatural-horror-in-literature
>>20421297
Great God Pan is great and probably his best work
https://www.26reads.com/library/27956-the-great-god-pan
Lovecraft's actually talks a lot about Machen in his chapter on The Modern Masters
>No one could begin to describe the cumulative suspense and ultimate horror with which every paragraph abounds without following fully the precise order in which Mr. Machen unfolds his gradual hints and revelations. Melodrama is undeniably present, and coincidence is stretched to a length which appears absurd upon analysis; but in the malign witchery of the tale as a whole these trifles are forgotten, and the sensitive reader reaches the end with only an appreciative shudder and a tendency to repeat the words of one of the characters: "It is too incredible, too monstrous; such things can never be in this quiet world.... Why, man, if such a case were possible, our earth would be a nightmare."
3spooky5me!!!

[Anonymous No.20423078]

>>20420844
I couldn't sleep for a night or two after reading House of Leaves, but some people don't find it scary

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.20423092]

>>20423055
It’s very good, the series is based on Huysmans life more or less, La bas related heavily to his actual involvement with the French occult scene and Satanism, the latter books wherein he becomes a monk reflect Huysmans literally becoming such. The series actually has a soft prequel in a-rebours since all of the books are really just a kind of psycho-spiritual therapy for Huysmans who self inserts as the main character.

I definitely recommend reading them all.

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.20423107]

>>20423060
It’s great but I think the hill of dreams really strikes home about his love of the mystical folk world in a way the reactionary op would enjoy a lot, but really machen’s love of the mystic glory of the old world hiding in nature and the cities should be to their taste as a whole. And yeah lovecraft’s essay on supernatural horror is a goldmine to a person seeking book recommendations.

[Anonymous No.20423156]

>>20423078
I could finish it. Unnerving.

[Anonymous No.20423165]

>>20423156
*Couldn't finish it

[Anonymous No.20423433]

>>20420844
A lot of the classic authors might be something you find interesting. Poe, Lovecraft. Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan is really good. The Willows by Algernon Blackwood. A lot of horror stories from those eras have a very unique and immersive feel to them

[Anonymous No.20424461]

>>20420844
i'd say read some Algernon Blackwood and Ambrose Bierce

[Anonymous No.20424463]

>>20423433
>The Willows by Algernon Blackwood

[Anonymous No.20424908]

>>20423078
It was a little spooky at first, but once they started going down the hall for hours at a time it lost the spook factor for me. I enjoyed all the annotations and appendices and all that, but I wouldn't think to call this a horror novel.

I remember after wondering if I missed something and coming across a video where the guy was like, "One day you'll be doing something completely random and it'll hit you, and you'll finally understand why it's so terrifying"
It's been about a year now and still nothing.

video in question for those wondering:
https://youtu.be/bLpAd9j9n7k

[Anonymous No.20424967]

I share OP's sentiments, but I've read most of the old stuff. Is there any newer stuff out there, or are they only interested in publishing writers on board with globohomo?

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.20425017]

>>20424967
Trust me you haven’t read all of the old stuff, let me link you a dude who, while his voice is not the best, absolutely is very well read and basically does nothing but share obscure decadent and weird fiction lit. I’ve actually talked with him on discord he’s a cool dude. His whole channel is great.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApachacha/videos

Found him while watching this channel which is again a great resource for recommendations. But it has both older authors and shills newer authors in the same decadent weird fiction vein.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLPptdW7G_s

And this is kinda out there but, there’s a youtuber poet whose probably died who I really really enjoyed, you should check him out too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXrJfK8Je0s

[Anonymous No.20425118]

>>20425017
That Machen video gave me such creepy vibes, I loved them. It has everything perfect. The subject matter, the camera angle, the lighting, even the color and texture of that end table are perfect "Let me show you something you shouldn't be seeing" vibes.

Thanks for the rest.

[Anonymous No.20425142]

>>20420844

It's just a short story, but 'The Monkey's Paw' by WW Jacobs is superb.

[Anonymous No.20425143]

>>20425017
very cool collection of channels

[Anonymous No.20425164]

>>20420844
Demand for accommodation paired with total disregard for aesthetics is a one way road to trannydom. Get your life in order before you do something you regret.

[Anonymous No.20425636]

I'm reading the new edition of T.E.D. Kleins Dark Gods at the moment and really enjoying it. Don't know if it qualifies as "reactionary", but def not "woke" in any way.

[Anonymous No.20425814]

>>20425636
Doesn't need to be reactionary, I just don't want to have modern politics thrown into it.

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.20425869]

>>20425814
May I suggest early fantasy? I’ll drop some links you may find interesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacDonald

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Dunsany

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._R._Eddison

> Fantasy historian Brian Attebery notes that "Eddison's fantasies uphold a code that is unabashedly Nietzschean; had he written after World War II, his enthusiasm for supermen and heroic conflict might perhaps have been tempered".

> Tolkien generally approved Eddison's literary style, but found the underlying philosophy unpleasant and unattractive; while Eddison in turn thought Tolkien's views "soft"

> Robert Silverberg, who described The Worm Ouroboros as "the greatest high fantasy of them all";

> Eddison's books are written in a meticulously recreated Jacobean prose style, seeded throughout with fragments, often acknowledged but often directly copied from his favorite authors and genres: Homer and Sappho, Shakespeare and Webster, Norse sagas and French medieval lyric poems. Critic Andy Sawyer has noted that such fragments seem to arise naturally from the "barbarically sophisticated" worlds Eddison has created.


> The books exhibit a thoroughly aristocratic sensibility; heroes and villains alike maintain an Olympian indifference to convention. Fellow fantasy author Michael Moorcock wrote that Eddison's characters, particularly his villains, are more vivid than Tolkien's.

>Others have observed that while it is historically accurate to depict the great of the world trampling on the lower classes, Eddison's characters often treat their subjects with arrogance and insolence, and this is depicted as part of their greatness.

[Anonymous No.20426087]

>>20420844
>Why do I specify "reactionary"? Because I don't want any of that feminist allegory bullshit.
muh safe space

[Anonymous No.20426346]

>>20426087
>Ah, yes, time to relax. Let me crack open this book that has stuff in it I know will annoy me.

[Anonymous No.20426609]

>>20425814
The Search for Joseph Tully.

[Anonymous No.20426686]

>>20420844
I like monster horror, so I'll rec some of them. Right now I'm reading It Came With The Crash. It's alright so far.
Adam Nevill is really good, but unfortunately he can't get on with the fucking story. He bloviates about everything, to the point you can probably skip every second page and miss nothing. It's really frustrating because he writes well.
Nick Cutter has some good stuff, but he has a really distinct voice, which is unideal in his book The Troop, but otherwise it's pretty good.

[Anonymous No.20426697]

>>20425636
I assume you mean the NYC blackout story with several n-words and various positive and negative racial stereotyping going on. It's a great horror story and Klein is Jewish so no one can really accuse him of white privilege or whatever

[Anonymous No.20426776]

The Song of Kali by Dan Simmons.

[Anonymous No.20426965]

>>20426697
>Klein is Jewish
But he does have jewish privilege.