Books like the first season of True Detective in tone, story, themes etc.?
>>23622397Southern Gothic.
>>23622397Thomas Ligotti short stories, since he was a (secondary) inspiration for the show. Also the handful of horror stories that Robert W. Chambers wrote, since that's where The King in Yellow comes from.
The Gone World is a common recommendation for True Detective-likes, and while I enjoyed it I didn't think it was that similar
>>23622467>The King in YellowReading the first story now.Picrel comes up, am I in for a based author or is he weak by 4ch standards?
>>23622397Trouble is My Business
>>23622397Most obvious contender is 2666
rust feels too much like an embarrassingly edgy teenager that they try to pass off as deep
>>23623805i have long since genuinely believed that edgy teens are deep.
>>23623950Same desuTeenagers can’t comprehend death at all, as such they’re probably more able to accurately consider things like ontology without the looming fear of death that slowly grips you as an adult. I definitely felt sharper, closer to the truth, as a teen. Now, I feel less inclined to think about things like that.
James Lee Burke writes detective novels set in the region. Some have a bit of supernatural flavoring. Mostly some voodoo tie in but it’s often got a Scooby Doo explanation but there’s always one little unexplained bit that the detective can’t explain but big bad is either dead or in jail so fuck it they don’t pay him enough to fuck around with that spooky stuff
>>23622822I read the king in yellow, it's a collection of stories that progressively get worse and worse, when you get to the one in France where there's a war going on near the town, just do yourself a favour and stop reading then an there or at the next one, they continue to get worse after that point. i.e. the first half is good, the second is passible, barely worth reading. If you're a big fan of the show/horror literature go ahead and read them I won't stop you, the quotes that precede the chapters are amazing but alas I cannot say the same about the stories that follow.FYI Lovecraft said that Chambers was one of the best horror writers (so you might want to read this book either way if you like HPL).
