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What are you reading?
How do you feel about it?

I'm currently reading ''To Rouse Leviathan". Some of the stories are interesting but holy hell is Cardin long-winded. This guy just cannot end a story, he just keeps wringing out the water from the already dry sponge until it evaporates.
I also don't understand his huge ego thinking he's the one and only person to use Christian mythology in his try-hard Lovecraft copy stories.

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>>23052002
Just finished pic rel and it's fantastic, a great mix of sci-fi and horror.

>> No.23052062

>>23052061
I don't think I've ever read that author, I'll give it a read, thanks!

>> No.23052661

>>23052002
I recently read:
>Thomas Ligotti - My Work is Not Yet Done
>Thomas Ligotti - Teatro Grottesco
>Stefan Grabinski - The Dark Domain
>Brian Evenson - Song for the Unraveling of the World

MWiNYD was okay, not as good as I hoped it'd be. The last short story (I think it was called The Nightmare Factory) was superb though.
Teatro Grottesco was good, it had some really strong stories in it, but goddamn Ligotti's writing can be hard to get through, being overly detailed and repetitive.
The Dark Domain was sick, I really enjoyed it. I'm really surprised at how good the writing was, and how diverse the stories are, and how consistent the quality (there was only 1 story, out of the 11, that I thought was just okay), especially from short stories from 1910~ish
Song for the Unraveling was fine. It also had some really good stories in it, but some of them fell a bit flat (especially "Trigger Warning", which was the only comedy story in the collection, and it didn't work for me at all), and it was a bit weird (ha) to shift from semi-realistic horror stories to straight up full sci-fi and back almost every story. It felt like a strange editing choice to put all of them in together, completely mixed.

Right now I'm reading James Herbert, which isn't weird fiction. Right now reading The Rats, and after this I'll be going for The Fog.

I've been wanting to read To Rouse Leviathan, but that sounds difficult to get through. Are there any other Christian cosmic horror writers/stories/novels you can recommend?

>> No.23053296

I've read the Imago Sequence and other stories in the book recently. It was ok but some of the writing was a little bit too disjointed for me.

Today I started The immeasurable Corpse of Nature and the first story already hit like a truck. Looking forward to read the rest. I hope not all stories are going to be gut punches like that.
And if they are thats also ok.

>> No.23053662

>>23052661
Nice. I read Teatro Grottesco last month and have the Dark Domain on my shelf. I love when Ligotti is building atmosphere with prose that is like Bruno Schulz if he were writing cosmic horror. The Shadow, the Darkness feels very much inspired by his reading of Thomas Bernhard with its use of repetition.

>> No.23053683

I want a weird story where something eerie is happening just beyond a wall. Like just underground or beyond a yard something disturbing is taking place but outside of that everything is happy and normal.

>> No.23054781

I’ve been doing a reread of Ligotti’s work. I’m currently on Teatro Grottesco, reading for the second time.

I think it’s my favorite collection by him. It’s so weird, surreal, and abstract.

>> No.23054800

>>23052002
OP, quick question. Where did you find that edition of The Secret of Ventriloquism? I know there’s an expanded edition that came out, but it has a different from cover from what you posted.

>> No.23055434

Anyone knows the story about the dead/alive horses? I forgot the author and title, it's about this guy who comes across horses and he doesn't know if they're dead or alive. Those horses live in his head rent free, he ends up always thinking about them

>> No.23056119

>>23054800
It's from some Google search, I had never seen it before so it grabbed my interest when posting, I have no idea where it's from unfortunately.

>>23055434
That would be Brian Evenson's "A Collapse of Horses".

>> No.23057340

What's the weirdest scene you've ever read? An anon posted a short story weeks ago about one that ended with the main character's dad mouth opening up infinitely and it just ends like that.

>> No.23058146

>>23056119
You somehow found a cover that’s a translation of the Italian edition:
https://www.amazon.com/segreto-del-ventriloquio-Italian-ebook/dp/B097XWVQL5

>> No.23058817

>weird fiction
Post THAT book.

>> No.23058821

>>23053683
maybe Robert Aikman "wine dark sea" though it has a bit of an ejection from eden at the end.

>> No.23059135

>>23058817
What book?

>> No.23059421

>>23059135
Hogg

>> No.23059440

>>23059421
How is Hogg weird fiction?