Guy Fawkes Night edition.Old thread: >>23910101
I thought that The Wendigo was kind of boring, maybe I need to give it another go
>>23952664You told me you finished The Eyes, what are your thoughts on it?Also currently reading The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf.
>>23953510In A Lonely Place (short stories) by Karl Edward Wagner should be somewhere in there. It's brilliant and it's been back in print for awhile, so new readers should find it easily.
For me, it's /an/ horror
>>23953510Overall I liked The Eyes. There were a few over the top vile stories but overall I liked the vibe. It's gonna sound odd in relation to the subject matter, but the guy could write, man. Also I've heard the guy who wrote it didn't even exist and the introduction/biography is a total fabrication and the true author remains anonymous.
>>23953510Jon Padgett's Secret of Ventriloquism should be added to this.
>reading Ligotti's Teattro Grotesco stories >they are very spooky and sad>play some funky Memphis rap instrumentials on YouTube in the background>no longer scared so muchgot away with it again
>>23953945I agree, it's a great collection, and I hadn't heard of it in time when I was making this chart. I will definitely add it (along with some other works) when I make a new chart, in a year or two.>>23954261It's good to hear that both the atmosphere and prose were great. Also curious about the secret identity shit. What are you going to read next?>>23954400I still need to read this, but I've heard good things about it.
>>23954546>What are you going to read next?It's not horror, but: I started The Curse of Lono by Hunter S. Thompson. A fellow /lit/izen recommended it in a thread a few months ago, and I liked HST a lot in my early twenties, and the anon had described this as like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas but in Hawai'i, plus I needed something to refresh my palette after October as well as a few things I started reading in September which I decided to drop. I still have one thing on my backburner that I really want to finish though, that being Akira (the manga). I read the first three volumes over the summer and then took a break. Next I'm planning on reading Wuthering Heights. Isn't that a ghost story? And then, after that, I'm gonna read Book of the New Sun. What's a horror novel I should read after those?
>>23954566Wuthering Heights is more of a gothic romance (not romantic) story, but it is indeed also a ghost story.If you want to read another gothic novel after that, I would suggest Malpertuis by Jean Ray, if you haven't already. Incredible gothic horror novel by a sadly almost forgotten Belgian author. For something more modern, North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud is one of the best horror short story collections I've ever read.
>>23954621Both of those look really good, thanks. I've put them on my Amazon wishlist.
Managed to finish The Fisherman. All in all, pretty good. The middle part with the diner story lagged a bit after the main focus of it was completed, and having Reiner's backstory be told after everything else was said and done felt very tacked-on and pointless. Dan and Abe's portion of the story after the diner was also too short in comparison, it was weird that the story spend so much time setting them up as characters but then most of the story was about characters that were far less fleshed out. But besides those gripes, I enjoyed it, and the final reveal felt very reminiscent of Lovecraft without feeling like a copy or a pastiche.
>>23954546>I agree, it's a great collection, and I hadn't heard of it in time when I was making this chart. I will definitely add it (along with some other works) when I make a new chart, in a year or two.Noice.
>>23954444nice drivegot link?
>>23952664audio.com/alexbeyman for free horror fiction narrations by various Youtubers & the No Sleep Podcast crew (2nd page)Vantablack and Persistence of Vision are usually well received & thus good starting points
Best general on /lit/ rn.
Anyone know of anything similar to the Resident Evil series? Please don't say the Resi books
>>23956576>Please don't say the Resi booksHave you read them? They're good. But check out the Joe Ledger series by Jonathan Maberry. They're about a secret government task force investigating weird shit (Patient Zero, the first book, is about an Islamist terrorist who creates a zombie virus).
What's the longest horror novel ever wrtten?I feel Stephen King's It takes the cake.
>>23957281I think Varney the Vampire might be longer than It. The page count greatly differs per edition because of font sizes etc, but some editions are 1100+ pages.
>>23957312>667,000 wordsGod damm, I doubt anything could dethrone this.
>>23953510read and hated Last Days by Evensonis that a weaker one of his or is it par the course?
>>23957635Evenson is like Beatles. His stories can be very good and memorable or extremely generic and forgettable with no in-between.
Stephen King is far too prolix for me.
Anyone got the new Nick Cutter book?
>>23957635I thought Last Days had a pretty good first half, and a pretty shit second half.I'd say check out A Collapse of Horses, or Song for the Unraveling of the World. They're pretty decent short story collections. The quality is a bit up and down, as is the case with a lot of collections, but the good ones are pretty solid. Check them out if you want more weird horror, and go for Unraveling if you want some sci-fi horror stories mixed in as well.
>>23959237
Horror books with sexual violence against adult men? Preferably something more creative than castration...
Just finished Father of Lies by Brian Evenson.He apparently wrote around the same time he basically got kicked of the Mormon Church, and you can totally see how angry he is at them in the book.Also, Jesus Christ I hope Zoomers on TikTok find that book, or else they're gonna claim he's a pedo.
>>23959811Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
I've had picrel on my TBR for a while. Any good?
Any good books like the movie Day of the Dead? Any zombie books that take place during the initial outbreak and is just about the decline rather than skipping forward to post apocalyptic stuff?
>>23954261Adalpuerta didn't exist, and neither did the alleged translated. I'm pretty sure both guys were in fact author Simon Whitechapel, who along the best Clark Ashton Smith inspired fiction wrote some cypher-driven pieces very similar to Adalpuerta's pornoglossia. Only, Simon Whitechapel is a pseudonym in itself and I've no idea who's behind it, so back to square one.
>>23961595I much preferred THE EYES to BLOOD AND GUTS IN HIGH SCHOOL.
>>23952664The paprika and carafe sections of the book are weirdly funny
>>23962560You mean The Eyes? I recall no such anecdotes.
>>23962567Dracula
Just finished The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf, and it's surprisingly good for a religious allegory which is also a horror novella written in 1842. Super atmospheric, and the horrific parts are very impactful.
>>23962514Ok lol. Why tho.
>>23952664Body horror anthology https://gnofhorror.com/spawn-2-behind-the-scenes-part-2/
>>23964994Forgot to show the cover
>>23964994>>23964995Oh word, incidentally I actually have the first one dl'd already. Think I was recommended it in the last thread, or I might have simply dl'd it from Zlib cause it was recommended and looked cool.
>>23952664Novels with a small American town where horrific things are occurring? One of my favorite is Salem's lot even as a not much of a King's fan, but I haven't found much with the same feeling
>>23965007Leave some reviews somewhere, even here. The horror community is based on its people rather than “sales”, so just leaving your thoughts on the anthology or individual story would be good. Word of mouth is the only way horror grows. Every other genre goes off bestseller lists and agents and connections—! Horror will always be underground and folksy.
>>23965090K. Honestly I'm not a huge fan of horror but I recognize the importance of reviewing indie stuff so I'll do that if/when I read it. I just added both Spawn and Spawn 2 ed. by Deborah Sheldon to my Amazon wishlist so I'll ask for them for Christmas.
>>23965066I quite enjoyed this recently
>>23965066Ghoul by Brian KeeneThe Traveling Vampire Show by Richard LaymonFloating Dragon and Ghost Story by Peter Straub
>>23965066Pic rel is great, also Stinger by Robert Mccammon
Any recommendations if I liked The Pear Shaped Man and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon? I started reading The Eyes because of this thread and I'm liking it too. If manga is ok to talk about here I also really enjoy almost everything by Kago Shintaro. I prefer short story anthologies to longer novels.
Anyone read Let the Right One In? Thoughts?
>>23966917I haven't read it myself yet, but I did buy a copy and am planning on reading it soon. I've heard a lot of good things about it!
>>23965066I once found that hardcover at a St. Vincent de Paul's, but it was missing the dust cover and was badly water damaged. Had to pass on that one.
>>23967812(samefag) I LOVE the small-town Americana vibe that cover gives off. but I think I prefer pic related.
>>23966100>Stinger by Robert MccammonMcCammon is very underrated
>>23967809I read it a long time ago, when I was 16 (so 2010). It's pretty damn good but I would not recommend reading the author's other novels.
>>23968036Which of his other works have you read?
>>23968044This one (picrel). It's just really upsetting. I couldn't finish it.
>>23968050So it's not the writing/prose/plot that's bad, but just the subject matter that's bleak and depressing as hell?
>>23968066I dunno, it starts off promising but then it devolves into basically a drama. It's about how recently deceased people are inexplicably reanimated but they lack their former personalities and the focus is on how their families deal with them. It follows three (at least) different families and it's just really tragic and sad. One of the families is a father/mother and son and the mother dies at the beginning; the dad gets his son a pet bunny to console him and after the mom is reanimated she's in like a military hospital kind of facility and the dad and son go to visit her and the son goes to show her his beloved new bunny and she rips its head off. I stopped reading it shortly after that.
>>23963068I've wanted to read this for some time. Is there an edition you'd recommend?
>paging Dr Groddeck >paging Dr Groddeck >paging Dr Groddeck >paging Dr Groddeck >paging Dr Groddeck
>>23968854I read the NYRB version. It has a very nice cover and no typos, but also doesn't have an introduction or notes.There's a new version by Alma Classics that has come out recently; maybe that one is cheaper and/or easier to get. I don't know if that one has notes or anything, but also the story doesn't really need it. The translation of the NYRB version is very well done, by Susan Bernofsky.
aw yeah
>Burnt Offerings > The Shining >Swan's Song > The Stand >Floating Dragon > ItThese are objective facts.
>>23970250Have you read Ring? If yes, question for you:I can't remember, is Sadako a hermaphrodite in the books or is that something that the movie sequels cooked up?
>>23953510>Want to read The Terror.>The one that they sell on Amazon has this fuck ass cover.
>>23970558>read slop>get slop coverSo surprising
>>23970558The Terror is great, ignore that cunt. Filter to the mass market paperback listings to get a pre-show cover. Just don't go and read Abominable afterwards, that is complete dreck that spends an entire book's worth of torurously slow buildup to vomit out a twist so stupid and so out of left field that I sped read the rest of it I was so disappointed.Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion are good though if you like scifi.
>>23970558Read the e-book or buy it elsewhere. Simple.
>>23970558I have the same problem, the ugly cover is the most readily available and the cheapest one. I'm just going to get one from Amazon with a different cover, doesn't matter which one because all the other ones look fine. I personally don't care if it's second hand or not, so that helps.
>>23970734If it makes you feel any better, when I ordered Stoner from Amazon it had a shitty cover on the listing but when it arrived it had the one I wanted, so I guess there's always the possibility that even if you order a shitty cover, you can end up with one that isn't so bad.
>>23970522Yes I have read it, and yes she is like that in the books.
>>23970558I fucking hate movie tie-in editions. Refuse to buy them.
Is it /lit/?
>>23971867Uzumaki is great, some of Ito's best alongside "The Enigma at Amigara Fault". If you want more big stories you could check out Gyo, Tomie, and Hellstar Remina.
>>23971867No. While it's good, there is a board dedicated to discussing Japanese comic books and it's called /a/.
Is De Sade considered horror?
>>23971904It's more transgressive than horror imo
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Finished Gou Tanabe's manga adaptation of The Call of Cthulhu last night. Very good. Tanabe's illustrations are brilliant. Now I'm onto The Shadow Out of Time.
The Road is horror, right?
>>23972460It's post-apocalyptic, that's a different (sub)genre than horror.
>>23972605Have you read it though? It's pretty horrific.
>>23972653Yeah, but horrific isn't the same as 'horror the genre'. There are a lot of books that aren't horror but have horrific elements, like 1984, Johnny Got His Gun, The Painted Bird, Lolita, Blindness, This Way For The Gas Ladies and Gentlemen, etc.
Is the Exorcist a good book?
>>23973069Yes, it's very good!
What's some good British small town horror novels or short stories? I think Brian Lumley and maybe Wyndham fall within this category but what about others.
>>23973189Pic rel is good
>>23973189Maggie's Grave and The Haar are set in small-town Scotland written by David Sodergren (a Scot). He's written a bunch of other good stuff but those are the small-town ones,
>Even more jarring is Simmons' bizarre, sometimes overtly offensive dialogue. One Asian character actually says "Ah, so," and an African-American prisoner named Delroy Nigger Brown punctuates his speech with repeated phrases like "You know what I'm sayin' " and "You know what I'm tellin' you.' " In one strikingly tone-deaf moment, the lapsed-liberal professor Fox condemns politicians of the past (the book's past, our present) who weren't sufficiently pro-Israel: "I wish those presidents and senators and representatives had been hanged from lampposts all over Washington."LMFAO
Pet Sematary made me shit my pants.
>>23974252Which novel is this about?
>>23974400NTA but I'm going to guess Carrion Comfort
This is actually really good>>23974400>>23975114I think it's that dystopian anti-Obama book he did that triggered everybody
>>23975418>I think it's that dystopian anti-Obama book he did that triggered everybodyFlashback? Man I really am due for a reread, that book is great.
>>23975418Anne Rice is my Mom's favorite author
>>23970568those and Carrion Comfort. Might rub some people up the wrong way politically but if you can ignore that it's an excellent story
>>23973189The Fog by James Herbert starts off small town. I found it a slog though. Most of Herbert's books are small town Brit though
End of the world, Lovecraft feel. Very spooky.
I read The Inn by Maupassant and it scared me more than anything in The Shining despite being written a century before. Anyone else?
>>23977817The Shining isn't scary, deadass on jah.
>>23978771sup nigga, y u be throwin shade dawg?? the shining be a certified banger and it's scary af ong frfr
Horror stories work best in short formats. This one spooked me as a kidhttps://www.cornerstonecharter.com/ourpages/auto/2016/11/2/57079272/The%20Jigsaw%20Puzzle.pdfAlso one called, iirc, Bugged where a group of campers is eaten by mosquitos, and just when you think the protag is gonna get away a giant mosquito comes out of the swamp and she sees the shriveled bodies of her brother and friends. I forget what book it's a part of.The "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" series had some of my favorites like Harold, The Black Dog, and FootstepsThey're just short blurbs mostly, but they're adaptations of age old stories which have definitely stood the test of timehttps://scary-stories.fandom.com/wiki/Footstepshttps://scary-stories.fandom.com/wiki/Haroldhttps://scary-stories.fandom.com/wiki/The_Black_Dog"Adult" stories try too hard from my experience.
What is some horror set in da hood?
>>23980269"The Forbidden" by Clive Barker, from Books of Blood volume 5. It got adapted into the film Candyman, which is also great.
Essential space horror?
>>23981963Hyperion has horror elements what with the Shrike.Solaris I could argue has some horror elements, some phenomena is causing people who are at a research station to be confronted with physical incarnations of their memories.Can't think of any straight by-the-definition horror space books I've read though.
>>23981963Clark Ashton Smith is a must.
>>23953510>no bad brainsWhy?
Read The Croning and Imago Sequence recently and enjoyed both quite a bit. What should be my next read in the /lairdcore/?
Read a lot of Stephen King in highschool but I never read Christine. Maybe I will eventually
>>23982257Occultation
>>23982058The Cipher is already present on the chart. Would you say that Bad Brains is a better book/representation of Koja's work?>>23982257I'll second Occultation, which I liked more than The Imago Sequence, and if you want more after that you can go for The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All.
