Weekly World News ed. Weird fiction & sci-fi/horror welcome as well :)Old: >>24702117
I remember when that issue came out. Always found it odd how that issue has survived all these years.
>>24736100Ranking the horror novels ive read:Lovecraft StoriesFevre DreamHouse of LeavesSalems LotOur Lady of DarknessDuma KeyPet SemetaryLast DaysDark HarvestThe Shining
>>24736122Out of those I've read: >House of Leaves >Pet Sematary >The ShiningAlso what do you mean by "Lovecraft Stories"? Do you mean all of his stories as a corpus, or is there some horror novel out there by that name by a different author which I've never heard of?
>>24736100did one of you fucks watch 12 monkeys recently? weirddd
>>24736100>His fall into degeneracy
>>24736100>>24736143His redemption arc.
>>24736148His moment of danger.
>>24736136Fuck, think I might watch this movie tonight. It's been on my TBW for ages.
What’s your favorite nautical horror? I just finished Hodgson’s The Ghost Pirates and I crave more
>>24736100I fucking loved Weekly World News. They had a tv show for awhile too.
>>24736387>They had a tv show for awhile toohttps://youtu.be/V5S--tiVNS4
>>24736387>I fucking loved Weekly World NewsMeeeeeeeeeee toooooooooooooooSummer of '06 I think it was, my extended family went on vacay and my mum bought me a bunch of issues (they sold them at the grocery store and 7/11 and places like that) along with some other magazines and Ripley's Believe It Or Not! books and etc. to read while on the trip :) I was 12 at the time. We didn't know how good we had it.
Any good horror books with awesome twists at the end that recontextualize the whole story?
>>24736406Goosebumps.
>>24736406Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
>>24736133I just mean his stories. Ive read a few collections and theyre basically all great. He was a master of mood.
Good cosmic horror novels about non-living anomalies?
Listening to Horrorbabble, is Dusk by Saki really a horror story?
>>24736701Oh yes, I just... Wait for it my memory is dogshit I've been slaving away aty work and sleepin... Less than stelar. Tomorrown I'll feel better, and remember. Please take this opportunity to cultivate your virtue. be patient.
Is there anything else like Empire of the Necromancers with lots of skellies?
Has anyone read The Troop by Nick Cutter?So far I'm about 7 chapters in, not very far. I'm not sure if I'm liking it or not. I like the premise and sometimes, when it gets going, it's a good read. But it's a bit strange how he spends about 4 pages going on about a boy being a nerd and ranking the "alpha maleism" of the other boys. He's constantly mentioning how big and strong this boy is. Think he mentioned the flying spaghetti monster and talked about male ego and sometimes it feels like 2 different people had their hand in this. One being Nick Cutter and the other a female Redditor. I don't know, just seems bizarre to me. It's not that I'm having a particularly bad time reading it, it's just little things like that take me out of it briefly before continuing. Not to mention he will spend a page describing the same thing with 4 different metaphors. Is it worth pushing through?
>>24736162Do you have the one where Bat-Boy steals a car? I vividly remember that one from my childhood.
>>24736122House of leaves was pretty bad. Should've been a novela with only the main storyline with the house.
>>24736912I didn't read The Troop, I did read The Deep.I really really hate Nick Cutter's writing style, he's very unsubtle in a way that makes it feel like I'm reading a creepypasta and not a novel.
>>24737552Agreed. The academic satire wasn't particularly funny or cutting, and it seems especially dated now. Johnny Truant's sections were just a bunch of sexual fantasies that added nothing to the story and were good only for inspiring the name of that one Fall of Troy song.
>>24736136Oh nice. I never noticed.
>>24736406If I told you then it you negate the twists.
>>24738015it would*Jesus.
>>24738015pretty please? oh please oh please?
>>24737552>>24737970Nahhhhhh. House of Leaves is good! I think it's a book that you need to read in your early twenties however. This September/October is 10 years since I've read it
What are the best swamp monster stories?
>>24736122Did you dislike The Shining that much? I thought it is one of his very best novels; very strong atmosphere, great well-rounded characters, both supernatural and psychological horror, a lot of well written tension, just fantastic overall.Also, which Last Days?
Necroscope 2 was better paced than the first book, but the constant backstory exposition got monotonous, also didn't care for the Cold War espionage stuff. The parts with Thibor and Faethor were great though, anything to do with the vampires was kino, really.
>>24718068That ending really got me good even if the name was a huge giveaway.
>>24739658Yeah, the ending was pretty well done. Glad you enjoyed it!
This was really good
>>24736122>Lovecraft THAT high>Proceed to read the rest of the listlol, lmao.
I'm reading Brahm Stoker's Lair of the White Worm right now. Not sure yet if it's supposed to be horror or what. It's incredibly boring, just multiple chapters talking about history and geography, but I'm still near the start. I hope something cool happens soon.
>>24740370Lair of the White Worm is infamous for being absolutely terrible. It was his last novel, and I don't know if the syphilis was eating away at his brain while he was writing it, but just know that the writing is abysmal. Even Lovecraft said that Stoker "utterly ruins a magnificent idea by a development almost infantile" lmao
>>24736122>It>Carrion Comfort>Misery>The Terror>Pet Sematary>The Girl Next Door>Off Season>Frankenstein>Necroscope>The Langoliers>Salem's Lot>At the Mountains of Madness>The Stand>The Cellar>The Sun Dog>The Mailman - Bentley Little>The Mist>Carrie>Interview with the Vampire>Earthworm Gods - I wasn't too "Keene" on this one lmao>Secret Window, Secret Garden>The Cabin at the End of the WorldSomething like that, might be forgetting some
>>24740405I guess you're really into long ass books, huh. I personally thought It dragged way too much and had way too many tangents and background stories that didn't add to the plot. Misery is amazing though, completely agree.
>All these Stephen King novels Jesus fucking CHRIST /lit/ has an amateur hour, who knew?
Leaving the certified kino that is Fritz Lieber's Smoke Ghost (1941) for folks:https://anilbalan.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/smoke-ghost1.pdf
The Great God Pan is going to be the best title posted in this pathetic, disgusting normienigger tier thread.
>>24736912I enjoyed it. If you're an animal lover you're going to have a bad time
>>24740429I fucking hate stephen king. I hate the way he writes, I hate the way he talks, I hate that he's a pedophile and nobody seems to care, I hate the way stephen king novels always pop up in horror discussions just because he wrote a million books when he was fucked up on cocaine
>>24740591None of them are even good.
>>24736100As a kid I was 100% convinced these were legitimate news articles, since they were sold on the racks right next to Time.
>>24740429He's most popular because he's the best at it. Cope
>>24740764Is ed sheeran the most popular singer ever because he's the best at singing
Have you ever been jumpscared by a written work?
>>24740950That Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark book. I read it as a kid, turned the page, saw this fucking thing and freaked out so bad I dropped the book.As for a purely written work with no images, I'd be shocked if that was possible. I've been surprised by twists and stuff, certainly, but a jumpscare is like, a physiological reaction to stimuli
>>24740961hysterically, I was also incredibly freaked out by another image in the same books
>>24740994this one didn't actually scare me at all, I thought it looked friendly when I was little. the other one was akin to witnessing gore for my child brain
Is there anything less interesting in a horror novel than the thing that's supposed to be scary being a guy with a knife?
>>24740389I got halfway through I realized I was reading the abridged version so I gave up. Fuck it, I'm not starting all over.
>>24740346Indeed. It made me shit my pants.
>>24740346>>24741626What's the plot of pet semetary? is it just "zombie animals come back and kill people" or is there more to it?
>>24741707>is it just "zombie animals come back and kill people" or is there more to it?There's a part that's really scary when Louis resurrects Gage and Gage has no head. I had to put the book down for about two weeks at that part.
Still reading The Dweller in Darkness. I'm quite liking it but I just haven't had much time lately. I'm at the part where the protag and his friend are going to go out into the forest to confront the ancient stone and Nyarlathotep. What do I read next? Hmmm.
>>24740346Someone in a random review for an unrelated book said the following, which I thought was pretty funny:>Stephen King (whose descriptive passages often resemble an exhaustive catalog of the contents of someone's pockets or purse)
>>24741707It's more "Will you make someone who died come back to life, even if you know beforehand that they won't come back right?"
I'm two short stories in, and it's a bit of a wet fart. (no spoilers please)
>>24742051In my opinion, there are three stories that stick out head and shoulders above the rest of the collection, and you haven't read any of them yet. Some stories can indeed be pretty lacklustre (something that is probably because this is his first collection; Occultation is a lot more consistently strong), but those three are actually pretty damn great and more than worth it in my opinion.
>>24742051>>24742273never heard of him what's his style like
>>24742051It gets better is all I can offer w/o spoiling, sorry. The Shiva one captured my imagination well enough.>>24742040funnily enough just encountered that quote for a review of the Imago Sequence
>>24742288>funnilyHaha yeah, what are the odds? Haha.>>24742278Most people will say he's aping Lovecraft.
>>24742278His prose is flowery and complex, and when cosmic horror things are happening, it can be hard to understand what's happening exactly (but that's the point). It is well worth reading though, he's got great writing skills and when his stories are good, they're really good. I just had to go through his writing a little slower than usual.
i love Robert Aickman, tho only the stories from Cold Hand in Mine have really completely worked. the ones in The Unsettled Dust somehow messed things up by having the weirdness either be too much or be too obviously metaphorical but Cold Hand in Mine is perfect and one of my favorite books in general. im bored to death by any hint of genre convention or any insistence of feeling and Aickman is the exact opposite.ill be reading the Fontana Book of Ghost Stories edited by him next month, as well as The Case Against Satan, Communion, and maybe Something Wicked This Way Comes.tried Bad Brains by Kathe Koja and couldnt connect with it. maybe its the third person narration conveying the inner voice of a cringy deadbeat in that supposedly colloquial way>Maybe a session of fucking each other's brains out in the motel parking lot. Who knows? And how long has it been? If the shithead hallucinatory silver smudge didn't interrupt of course. Which was likely.made up quote but you get it. is the cipher like this?
>>24741707It's more about death, coping with it and how a tragedy can just completely mindbreak someone and destroy a family, the zombie stuff is almost secondary to that and serves that theme.
>>24739336I was young when I read it, and I mainly remember thinking the movie was way better and creepier, and had richer characters. Or more distinctive at least.Last Days by Brian Evenson. Neat little detective story with a grisly twist.>>24740405Pet Semetary that much higher than Salems Lot? I really liked the slow destruction of the town in Salems Lot.Mountains of Madness is Lovecrafts worst story imo.
>>24743476There are definitely a lot of Lovecraft stories I like more than At the Mountains of Madness but that's the only one I've read you could call novel-length. I want to read The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Anyone read this? The story where the guy rapes, kills, and cannibalizes the little girl in the prison cell is the worst one. My favourite was probably either the Luftwaffe pilot's dream or the story about the downed B-25 pilot in the Sahara. Pretty grim reading. I found and bought a used copy of 120 Days of Sodom a few months ago, by the way – it couldn't possibly be worse than The Eyes, could it?
Considering reading this as my October full-length horror read. A few years ago I read maybe the first quarter of the book, and while I didn't get very far I liked what I read and I think I'll give it a go once I'm finished my current reads.
>>24743476That's funny, I have the complete opposite opinion on The Shining and the film adaptation. After reading the novel, you kind of realise that the film really isn't very good, that the characters are a lot more two-dimensional, and that the supernatural scenes in the novel are a lot more atmospheric and creepy than in the film adaptation (not to mention some really sick scenes with the topiary animals that were completely cut from the film, as well as a different ending that I thought was definitely worse than the novel's ending.)Of Evenson's Last Days, I thought that the first half was a lot stronger than the second half, that he wrote years later for some reason. The first half also has an amazing ending, it's a shame he wanted to add more crazy stuff to it that makes it feel a bit over the top in my opinion.(I also agree that 'Salem's Lot is a better novel than Pet Sematary. Saying that Mountains of Madness is Lovecraft's worst story is insane though.)>>24744165Hey, are you the person who I was talking to in the Dark/Disturbing threads years ago? If so, good to see you again. If not, cool to see someone else read that book. I know I haven't.
>>24744210>Hey, are you the person who I was talking to in the Dark/Disturbing threads years ago?Probably am. I actually managed to snag a physical copy, which was cool, cause it has a really kino cover, its contents notwithstanding.
Does anyone have any good religious horror recommendations that isn't The Boys in the Valley (already read it,) or anything by Blatty? (Again, already read a lot of his stuff. Nothing against him personally.) Preferably I'd like something set in an abbey or other small/claustrophobic setting. I am currently reading pic related because the synopsis sounded interesting, but it's been pretty shit so far. Would not recommend.
>>24744401The Case Against Satan, by Ray Russell, heavily inspired Blatty to write The Exorcist. If you want to go for a classic, The Monk by Matthew Lewis is great, and while Melmoth the Wanderer (by Charles Maturin) has a long frame story set in a monastery that is claustrophobic, the entire novel is very long and slow, and I wouldn't really recommend it unless you specifically want to read something like that. The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf is half religious allegory, half horror story, and overall just great if you're into books like that. It feels very much like a mythological story, and the actual horror is surprisingly cool for a novel from 1842.
>>24740346I watched both movies and thought they were just okay, but I haven't read a lot of Stephen King and this one does interest me. I do like the premise, so I hope it is better executed in the book.
Anyone else really like "The October Country" ? I feel like its kinda underratted. "The Man Upstairs" is so damn cozy, feels like a childhood memory or something.
>>24736100God, the WWN was so comfy. I know they have a website now, but it doesn’t come close to seeing them at Kroger alongside the gossip rags.
What are some good horror stories/novels where the protagonist starts out by running away from the monsters but ends by fighting and vanquishing them? The Case of Charles Dexter Ward would be one example, along with games like the Silent Hill or Resident Evil series.
>>24745541He looks just like Lee Harvey Oswald holy shit
>>24745541It’s a great collection with a lot of bangers. The Next In Line, The Skeleton, The Jar, The Lake, The Crowd, The Small Assassin, and The Wind are some of my favorites
>>24743476I liked Salem's Lot but it's been a long time since I read it and looking back I think other books pass it. Most of the list is minimum 7/10 though, I usually don't finish ones I don't like
Jerusalem's Lot is the best thing I've read recently. Fuck reading 'Salem's Lot thoughever lmfao. I also read Autopsy in Room 4 recently and while it certainly had palpable suspense I really would rather the protag have actually been dead and there be a legitimate sense of the preternatural in the story than oh he was bitten by a snake and was paralyzed.
>>24745876Agreed! It’s got some of his best short fiction. It’s that really specific style, I’m not even sure if there’s a name for it. Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont did a similar thing.
>>24745541Still need to read this one, I've got a physical copy so maybe I should put it higher on my tbr.>>24745856Had to look it up, but god damn you're right
>>24744420Thank you very much for the thoughtful recommendations, anon. I have added everything you gave me onto my list, however,>while Melmoth the Wanderer (by Charles Maturin) has a long frame story set in a monastery that is claustrophobic, the entire novel is very long and slow, and I wouldn't really recommend it unless you specifically want to read something like that.I think I'll actually start with this book. I'm sure it's probably a meme around here, but The Terror by Simmons is in all honesty one of my favorite books, so something long and slow doesn't phase me at all. Again, thank you!
>>24746827No problem, I'm glad I could help!I still need to read The Terror; I've only read Song of Kali by him, and I thought it was just so-so. Have you read other works by Simmons, and what'd you think of them?As for Melmoth the Wanderer, just be prepared for a huge frame narrative that at some point goes 3 stories deep if I remember correctly.
>>24746839>Have you read other works by Simmons, and what'd you think of them?Outside of the Terror, I've read Drood and Abominable. I started on Song of Kali ages ago, but dropped it for something else. (Will eventually go back to it, someday.) Of everything by Simmons I've read, Drood is the worst in my personal opinion. It was a slog and unlike the Terror, which also drags, there were almost no stakes throughout the vast majority of the book. Just ramblings about parties and Charles Dickens being arrogant. I've read reviews that say the best part of Drood is the opening chapter, and I agree. As for Abominable, I don't remember much of it other than it's equally slow as Drood. I think that's just Simmons's way of writing in general, though. >As for Melmoth the Wanderer, just be prepared for a huge frame narrative that at some point goes 3 stories deep if I remember correctly.Sounds interesting. I'm looking forward to it!
>>24744401His Black Tongue
>>24744201Honestly I thought it was just ok. It has some good moments but overall I found it uneven and lacking. I’ve heard good things about his other book The Lesser Dead
>>24745876I love the skeleton don't you think its spooky that theres a skeleton in your RIGHT NOW lmao
>>24745541Why does Bradbury look so hot in the jacket photo?
>>24746827>>24746839Part of me wants to read The Terror because it’s such a good starting point for historical fiction but I’ve only read Hyperion by Simmons and hated it
>>24744201>>24747452I thought the story was fine, but the writing was absolutely atrocious. I was originally planning on also reading The Lesser Dead, but after this I'm not sure I'm ever going to.
>>24747485Same but with Summer of Night in place of Hyperion.
>>24736119I saw this in a friend's house when I was like 6 and it deeply frightened me, to the point where I'd have trouble sleeping at night because of the bat child.At this friends house, I also saw the horrible "The Shining" TV series. The bathroom woman said "I've been waiting" and it genuinely fucked me up and made me afraid of bathrooms for like 5 years as a kid.Also, when the movie Mirrors came out, the ad had a kid sitting an inch away from a mirror, looking at himself. His mom came in and said his name. He looked at her, but his reflection didn't move. Scared me so badly that I was afraid of mirrors for many years.Now I'm a horror junkie and watch/read as much as I can. I don't know why, all I know is that I was a real pussy faggot as a kid.
>>24746503TRUST ME it's really good. Some of the stories capture the autumn vibe in such a great way. It's got a bit of everything
>>24736359Not much of a help because I didn't enjoy it, but I just read Into the Drowning Deep by Seanan McGuire and it was not great. I thought it was going to be a sick story about a group of deep sea divers encountering some kind of Lovecraftian-style deep sea leviathan, instead it was fucking retarded. Sick title, boring dumb book.
>>24736912Push through, anon. I had similar feelings in the beginning, but it gets pretty good. Some of my favorite body horror I've ever read, plus some more upsetting things down the line. Definitely worth the investment
>>24742559Cipher is like that, but I thought it was fantastic. The Cipher is my favorite I've read this year, super interesting, but if you aren't into the deadbeat shithead alkie narrator then you might not be into it. I love a shithead boozebag scumfuck narrator, so it was right up my alley. Favorite line: "I was getting empty stomach gutfuck drunk", which is what I'm doing as I type this.
>>24747485I didn't like Hyperion either, don't judge the rest of Simmons by it. Carrion Comfort and The Terror are both way better
>>24745846On the campy but fun side there’s Meddling Kids
Are there any horror books about people facing that the religion they've believed in their whole lives was wrong? Like a christian being faced with shintoist demons or something?
Kneel before Xenu
>>24747864nta but I also thought The Cipher was incredible. I also loved the horrific stuff that was happening in the background that the main character didn't want anything to do with and tried to ignore.
>>24749024Huh, what happened in the background?
>>24749046Mainly the cursed videotape thing that everyone else was completely obsessed with
Last Days by Neville has been on my TBR for like 5 years now
>>24748363Haven’t read this one. Is it kinda a Amblin Productions, “kids on bikes” kinda thing? Or is it more scooby doo ish?
Revival by Stephen King
>>24750666it is explicitly Scooby Doo in all but name.
Any good pulp horror with particularly cool covers? I want to hold something cool in my hands that I can read next month.
>>24751199
>>24751199I’ve been enjoying this 90s sci-fi horror anthology (it also has Lovecraft, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Ray Bradbury, PKD, and Richard Matheson in it)
Bump
>>24747822>The bathroom woman saidThat scene was well done and the only scene from the TV series that was in anyway memorable.
I want to read the novel where the guy gets castrated and he uses giant praying mantises to get his revenge
>>24753113I think you can find It in Anna's Archive.
Anyone reading the new Michael Wehunt? Is it worth the hardcover price (as someone who likes to collect books) or should I just pirate it?
>>24753159considering I'd never heard of him until now and it's his first novel, maybe just show the guy some love and buy it?
>>24752083For some reason the skeleton gives me the vibe of an alright guy but I don't really want to read this one.>>24752087That spaceman/diver (?) on the left does look pretty cool. I really need to read more short stories in general.
>>24753214Why do i care if you've never heard of him?
Critique my horror short storyhttps://novels2.com/novel/infierno-a-series-of-horror-stories-87998/ed-at-colonus-2657212
>>24753308Why don’t you want to support a smaller author whose first novel you were apparently looking forward to?
Are there any good horror or weird fiction themed communities on Goodreads? like actually good books and good discussions?
>>24753350He's not smaller just because you're ignorant. He's published by a big 5. I don't want to spend money on books that I'll wind up putting in little free libraries. If it's good, I'll buy it. Use your head, bro.
>>24753214what kind of logic is this? *i* haven't heard of him so *you* should spend money because i say so even if the book is trash. huuuuungh? i haven't heard of him either but i'm going to get it from annas just because of this retardation.
>>24754236Buddy, you asked for an opinion and I gave you one. If an author you like with a smaller following (no Wikipedia, fewer than 2k followers on social media) is releasing their first novel and first book with a major publisher, it’s worth 30 bucks to support them. 66% of books sell fewer than 1000 copies in the first year. There’s next to no press for this release. You are in the vast minority of people who know who this guy is and that he has a new book coming out. If you let a poverty mindset turn you into a parasite on the creative class, you’re part of the problem with modern publishing>>24754325(You)
Where do I start with Clive Barker?
>>24754992The Books of Blood is a fun collection of his short stuff.
>>24754992I'll second Books of Blood.
>>24753480Unironically r/WeirdLit
>>24754840I asked for an opinion of the book, not for every chud who doesn't know who he is to chime in with a tsk-tsk lecture about piracy. Since you care so much, you can buy me the book. TYIA
>>24755356>poorfag seethes and begsI'm never going to buy a copy of this book for you or anyone because I don't care. You do. I have no idea who this guy is and if you think so little of his past work you had to come here looking for an endorsement instead of trusting your taste, it can't be very good. As a matter of fact, I hope the book sells so badly he has to give his advance back, assuming he even got one. I hope he never writes again. I hope he sees this thread and kills himself because disingenuous leeches like you are his target audience. Remember this the next time you complain on here about publishing trends. You don't even have the right to an opinion.
>>24755523I'm not poor and I stay that way by being cost conscious. If you don't care then shut the fuck up. I'm not a leech and I have zero issues with shelling out money for a good book. I was asking if the book was any good and instead I got a fucking mouthful from your stupid fucking ass when you don't even know who he is. Fuck you, you self righteous blowhard. Go read a fucking book for a change. Maybe then you'll actually recognize writers next time.
Been saving this bad boy for Spooktober
>>24756176nice
>tfw no eldrich book gf to offer sacrifices to
>>24740449It was kinda mid, honestly.
>>24752087So is this all SF-themed horror or?
>>24756751Nvm I'm an illiterate idiot lol.
>>24756176M.R. James is fantastic. I read his stories earlier this year and they are consistently great.
>>24740595Salem’s lot is good but the rest of it’s pretty shit. I’ve read probably 20 of his books and none of them are written well
>>24757583You didn't like The Shining, or Misery? I thought both of those were very good novels.
>>24756714Starfish by Peter Watts Blood Music and Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo Stinger by Robert Mccammon The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F Hamilton
You guys got any good recs for eco horror novels?
>>24757647Misery is great, don’t know how that slipped my mind. I didn’t care for the Shining
>>24757686This one is fun
>>24756176>>24757039>tfw you'll never attend Eton college on Christmas day to hear one of MR James' stories told in person
>>24758078>Yes I deliberately wrote my 500+ pages horror fantasy tale in the most archaic and purple prose imaginable, how could you tell?
>>24758078Be the change you want to see in the world
>>24758168Whoops didnt mean to reply to anon, lol.
>>24758168What does The Night Land have to do with M.R. James' ghost stories?
>>24758169I'm too poor and stupid to attend Cambridge
>>24758172See>>24758171
>>24758168I enjoy archaic and purple prose and think women ruined it more than anything.
What do you guys think would scare a devout buddhist, one who has liberated themselves from attachment, joy, or sorrow, or at least aspires to such liberation?I imagine a kind of cosmic horror entity that upheaves one's understanding of the universe, defying the very concept of logic of which is the basis for buddhist thought, or perhaps one that forcibly torments a person with sensations or emotions which cannot be shut out or rationalized, pulling from deep within a person the most base and animal instinct of fear.
What is the best collection of non-lovecraft Cthulhu mythos stories?
>>24758571Cool idea, sounds like a Buddhist adaptation of Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony, read that for inspiration.
>>24756176I bought a cheap copy of this from Indigo a few weeks ago. It's good I reckon?
I pulled the trigger and purchased picrel. It's the entirety of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle and it'll prob be my "October read" since God knows it takes me that long to read a 400 page trade paperback. I really want a copy of >>24752087 tho.
>>24752087Holy shit anon. I’ve been trying to remember this anthology for almost 30 years. When I was like 11 my mom let me buy a book at the grocery store and I got this because the cover was cool as hell. I have wanted to remember it for so long because I absolutely loved one of the stories in it (Born of Man and Woman) that left an impression on me. I thought I’d never see it again. This is awesome. I’m gonna order a copy for old times sakes. Thanks!
>>24740429I loved Revival and I'm not the anon that mentioned it previously. Probably the spookiest of the contemporary King books even if it's pretty slow.King doesn't always hit it out of the park but I think the majority of hate towards his works is "POPULAR THING BAD!"
>>24753308Who asked what you care about?
I’m not a prolific reader, but I do enjoy it. I’m going to try to deep dive into lovecraft to try and kickstart myself again.
I'm diving into the Vampire Hunter D books this Halloween. I am a fan of the movies so seeing the source. First book so far is enjoyable. >The driver was a werewolf, one of the monsters of the night resurrected from the dark depths of medieval legend along with the vampires. D could tell just by watching the transformation, which some might even term graceful, that the driver was not one of the genetically engineered and cybernetically enhanced fakes the vampires had spread across the world.Cool stuff like that. Quickly sets up and establishes traditional monsters exist but also plants the seed of future cybernetically and genetically engineered monsters. Far future with sci-fi and horror.Does this count as "Dying Earth"?
>>24759363Nice, lad. What story are you going to start off with? If you've never read it before, I suggest The Outsider.
>>24759467Bit autistic but I found a chronological collection of all his stuff so I’m just going with that for now. Read up on his life for context and then dove in, finished his childhood material and now I’m reading his stuff he wrote in his late 20s. Had to reference the dictionary a few times but having fun.
Read this if you like body horror.
>>24759688I spent all my book money already.
>>24759696Sorry to hear. Did you get anything you like?
>>24759701Yup. I bought >>24759139 as well as Camp of the Saints.
>>24759494so you started with The Beast In The Cave?
This was fun. I like Stephen Graham Jones
>>24760128How does this compare to his other works?
What are some horror books or short story collections for fans of Hellboy? Something that captures a similar type of vibe.
>>24760196The Titus Crow series.
>>24760196Mignola cites Manly Wade Wellman’s Silver John series as an influence on Hellboy. Maybe try those, they’re very fun
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>>24760372huh, had my dates wrong. Still, as much as I love Lovecraft, I don't think he hit his stride until somewhere around 1918-25ish. I kind of can't imagine reading the stuff he wrote when he was 7 first.
>>24760369Oh cool? What edition of it should I buy? Is his stuff in-print currently or should I go for a used copy? Also interms of “occult detective” type stuff, is “carnaki the ghost hunter” by Hodgeson or “John silence” by Algernon Blackwood worth checking out?
>>24760608I’m not judging his kiddy stuff too harshly, and they’re pretty short. I’m patient enough not to have to dive into his best work right away.
>>24748533Do you still want to find your hat?
>>24760621This is a good recent edition.
This is me:>No good, he realized; the tremor in his voice, the quickening of his shuffle betrayed his cowardice in the face of adversity. This instinctive recoil from trouble, the resultant wave of self-loathing and bitter recriminations was as it ever had been with Kenshi.This is also me:>The mace was a decade old: he bought it for her after a guy mugged them in Venice. The thug gave her a shiner and a sprained neck in the process of yanking away her camera. Stunned, he had stood there while it happened. That evening in the hotel, he berated her for carrying the camera, for attracting trouble. Later, he apologized by handing her the mace and some flowers. When they returned to the states he enrolled in karate lessons and attended classes religiously until he quietly dropped them in a few weeks.
Any good books with body horror?I recently read The Hellbound Heart (Clive Baker) and Annihilation (Jeff VanderMeer) and really enjoyed both.
Once again, I am requesting books/stories with a heavy preponderance of skellies.
>>24760128so is that about some sort of lethal ghost force hunting indians who hunt buffaloes?
>>24760621I read the Wellman through my local library so I can’t comment too much but I’ve also read the Hodgson and some of the Blackwood (still making my way through the collected John Silence this month). I like both of them and think they’re worth reading. Carnacki is a bit weirder and more entertaining— the stakes tend to be higher and world building Hodgson gestures to is really fun— but John Silence is in more accessible prose and deals with the paranormal from a more grounded and considered perspective. Another option in Seabury Quinn’s Jules de Grandin
>>24760145I think well but I’ve mostly read his short stories. I have The Only Good Indians on my to read shelf>>24761140It’s about a Blackfoot vampire in the 1800s. I like the use of the Blackfoot language and also the version of vampirism
Do a lot of you prefer reading horror over watching it? I feel like I enjoyed horror movies and tv a lot more when was younger, but as time as passed I’ve found myself a bit board with the visual medium. There’s literally like a centuries worth of great stories that hardly anyone even knows about within Horror literature! It’s honestly nuts. Plus there’s so many ideas and concepts that are easier to explore in books, a lot of ideas that are easier to bring to life.
Going to start my Halloween month of horror tonight with this.
Holy shit
Is this chart based or cringe? I saw it on pinterest lmao
I just spent the last few hours dl'ing and collating all the stories in this volume >>24759139 , all from HorrorBabble. I'll upload a zip if anyone wants. Also, thoughts on Michelle Remembers? I managed to find a copy a few months ago. A few years ago I read about the first half of it on my Kindle (RIP) and now that I have my hands on a physical copy I might read it in October alongside the Lovecraft/Lovecraftian mythos short story collections I've bought recently.
>>24761614The premise of The Girl Next Door just seems too singularly sadistic and depraved to read. I know the true story it's based on, and I know how it ends...so the foster mom and the neighbourhood kids torture her to death over the course of many months. Is there even an element of suspense, knowing she has no agency in the book and that she surely dies at the end? It doesn't sound like a very substantial read.
>>24761614It's a good list, but I've tried to update it a bit a few years ago with better collections, a better post-2000 section, and books that better represent certain authors.I've been reading a lot, and already have a number of books I would add to my current chart (as well as remove The Rats):>Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto>Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho>Jeremias Gotthelf - The Black Spider>Hanns Heinz Ewers - Alraune>Jean Ray - Malpertuis>Roland Topor - The Tenant>Giorgio de Maria - The Twenty Days of Turin>Samanta Schweblin - Fever Dream
I'm really enjoying how these threads have been booming so much lately.
>>24761614It's good and far better than the updated version that >>24761800 keeps trying to shill
>>24761887The old chart has:Just Carmilla, when In a Glass Darkly is a good collection that also includes CarmillaThe Complete Stories of Saki, the vast majority of which aren't even horrorA Machen collection that doesn't include The Great God PanA single Blackwood story instead of a decent collectionThree Lovecraft books that could've very easily been one (the old chart creator literally only did that to fill up the chart)No Lafcadio Hearn or Stefan GrabinskiA Russell collection that's both very mediocre and hard to findSong of Kali as the Simmons book, when The Terror is way betterSame for The Ceremonies for T.E.D. Klein, which is not even close to Dark GodsNo Silence of the LambsNo Poppy Z. Brite at all (the original creator even said he forgot to put his work on the chart lmao)For Brian Evenson, Altmann's Tongue and Last Days really aren't as strong as A Collapse of Horses or Song for the Unraveling of the WorldThe Ruins is a terrible book, as is Heart-Shaped Box (the original creator even said that HSB sucked ass but he only put it on the chart because it was popular)The White Hands by Samuels is unobtainable, The Age of Decayed Futurity is a way better collection that you can actually buyCyclonopedia is more philosophy than horror and doesn't really belong on this list
> Speaking of poetical reviewers—I have not yet recovered from the shock the newspaper gave me last night! At the First Baptist Church in this city, on Friday evening, there occurred the annual ceremony of the award of the “Spingarn Medal”, which is given to the member of the negro race who achieves the most notable success in ‘any field of elevated or honourable human endeavour’ during the year. At these impressive exercises, Gov. Beeckman of Rhode Island gracefully awarded the badge of African supremacy to the Boston poet, critic, & literary editor—William Stanley Braithwaite!!!!!!!!!!!! Think of it—chew upon it—let it sink into your astonished & outraged consciousness—the great Transcript dictator, the little czar of the Poetry Review, is a nigger—a low-born, mongrel, semi-ape!—Ye gods—I gasp—I can say no more! Aid me, ye benign elves & daemons of anticlimax! So this—this—is the fellow who hath held the destinies of nascent Miltons in his sooty hand; this is the sage who hath set the seal of his approval on vers libre & amylowellism—a miserable mulatto! To think of the years I have taken this nigger seriously, reading his critical dicta as though he were a Bostonian & a white man! I could kick myself! William’s picture is printed in the Bulletin beside the news item, & from the likeness given I can deduce no visible sign of his black blood. A heavy moustache droops down over what may be thick negroid lips. But after all—I suppose he has only a slight taint of the beast. No nigger blacker than a quadroon would be likely to attain the intellectual level he has undoubtedly reached. I am not minimising what the fellow knows, but I think it monstrous bad taste for the Transcript to foist a black upon its literary readers!
>>24761800>>24761904Don't forget to add In a Lonely Place by Karl Edward Wagner.
>>24762538Yes, you're 100% right! It slipped my mind when writing down that list, but In a Lonely Place definitely deserves a spot on the chart. (I think you've mentioned this to me before)
>>24761904I’ve heard mixed things about Joe Hill. Is his stuff mostly coal? I read NOS4A2 and thought it was decent.
>>24762642His novels tend to have a King level of fluff and padding that could easy have been cut. If you enjoy that, then you're in luck. Aside from that, most people say that his short story collection 20th Century Ghosts is his best work.
I'm having a hard time finding anything new and good in the genreLaird's Not a Speck of Light was somewhat decent, Ballingrud is somewhat decent, but I don't see anything good. Or read. Last new good thing I read was Occultation and it's been a while since that.
>>24761904song of kali is much better than the terror and the ruins is a good horror book
>>24762991The Ruins is a terribly written book, with clunky flashbacks, completely flat characters, absolutely glacial pacing, and a monster that gets more and more ridiculous as the book goes on until you just can't suspend disbelief any more.
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>>24763118This one might also be of interest!
>>24763118>>24763118Zamn, these are really comprehensive. Did u make both of these anon?
>>24762969Try David Surface's These Things That Walk Behind Me?
>>24763271ok thanksi guess looking for a stray story here and there is the best chance of actually finding something worth reading
>>24761448How is it? It’s on my list.
>>24763379I'm not very far yet, but it's very comfy and the writing is really good. A step above Kingslop. Will post some updates when I make some more progress.
I like Kingslop…
Tonight's stories will be Beyond the Wall of Sleep + The Dreams in the Witch-House.>>24761918Aye, this is a good one. Does anyone know if Dexter Ward is his only full-length book, ie novel?
>>24764328The Shadow Over Innsmouth was the only one of Lovecraft’s longer works to get a separate book publication in his lifetime. The Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Out of Time are also quite long and originally ran as serials in the pulps
>>24761502I’ve only read The Willows from this collection. What are some of the other good stories?
Still early but the chronological Lovecraft run is heating up. I really liked “Dagon”, “Polaris”, “The Green Meadow” and “Beyond the Wall of Sleep”. Excited to keep going.
The monster rape and paedophilic slasher masterpiece
Victorian horror is the best…
>>24763231I'm the one who made >>24761800, but I didn't make the other charts.>>24765170Definitely also check out his short stories if you haven't already!
Yeehaw
Essential splatterpunk?
>>24765816Poppy Z. Brite - Exquisite Corpse is fantastic. If you want something as dark and bleak as they come, check out The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum.
>>24761800I'm starting Malpertuis today, what am I in for?
>>24763118>>24763123These are great for some modern recs, I keep running into this Ballingrud - Barron adjacents, and did quite a bit of reading from 8-10 collections I downloaded last night, but it's all either derivative or simply blase, and definitely not scary.What I find both interesting and tiresome is that I read most of these stories - can't avoid it - in a meta sort of way, and I do not think it's my fault. They fail to engage me, so I mostly think about what the writer is doing and how he's trying to posit a certain sequence, only I don't think the horror can remain present throughout, if ever. Now I'm certain that Barron is a class above all the modern writers, despite being downright amateurish at times.>>24763271Couldn't find this one on Anna's Archive. >>24765839Rec for both, especially Brite which is like a more sophisticated Barker. >>24765816Books of Blood of course.
I'm rereading Frankenstein for the first time in years. Last time I enjoyed it but now I can really see how masterful it is. Stylistically it's much better than Dracula, which had a great first act and then lost steam midway through. The chapter where Victor descends into madness creating the monster was so exciting.
>>24766172I only read it last year for the first time and I was shocked at how good it is. I thought it would be some quaint, flimsy novel, while it's a visionary work of enduring quality, with some wonderful, turbulent prose passages. One of the best final sentences in literature, I like it more than Gatsby's.
>>24766172>>247661761818 or 1831?
>>24766240Hm I forgot but I think it was 1818 edition I was looking for the rawer oneI also read some passage comparisons at the timejust checked on kindle, 1818 text + contexts + criticism, norton critical edition
>>24766127A fantastic epistolary gothic novel, and a mystery that only partially reveals the answers and leaves the rest up to the reader. It's also very well written and wonderfully atmospheric.
>>24747822Yeah I can distinctly remember seeing this at the newstand at the checkout counter of a Shopko as a kid and it freaked me out
Having a lot of fun with this so far
>>24763118This one is awesome. I’m been meaning to get some more modern recs. Should keep me busy for a while.
reading stephen king on my kindle so no one accidentally sees me reading stephen king
>>24761637What the Hell?
eh, it's alright
I’ve caught up to everything Lovecraft before 1920, been having a really fun time so far, these are my first impressions (tiers are ordered):A Tier:>Polaris>Dagon>The Green Meadow>Beyond the Wall of SleepB Tier:>Old Bugs>The Statement of Randolph Carter>The Street>The Beast in the Cave>Memory>The White Ship>The Doom that Came to Sarnath>The Alchemist>The TombC Tier:>Sweet Ermengarde>The Transition of Juan Romero>The Secret Cave or John Lees AdventureD Tier:>The Little Glass Bottle>A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel JohnsonF Tier:>The Mystery of the Graveyard>The Mysterious Ship
>>24767155what about the f tiers made them so bad
>>24767156Well, they’re from when he was a kid. His really early childhood stuff had some clever ideas and wonder, the bottom two were when he was slightly older and tried to make more complicated stories. Both of the F-Tiers had too many characters and weak narratives that suddenly went every which way. Not really a reflection of him as an author but those are his worst.
>>24767155Polaris was cool. Big fan of Dagon. I was reading Wall of Sleep last night by the way, and I still need to finish it. The Tomb was also pretty kino.
>>24767181Dagon was the first “holy shit” story, when the claws really set in.Polaris eeks out #1 for now because all phases of the story held me equally well.The Tomb has functioned as the barometer for me if I really liked the story or not, C tier is lightly charmed/interested, D is doesn’t feel like a waste, and F is don’t need to read it again.
>>24767204I definitely wouldn't put Polaris that high...I liked the imagery but the plot was lacking. *My* barometer for Lovecraftian greatness would be The Call of Cthulhu, The Rats in the Walls, The Dunwich Horror, The Outsider, and The Shadow Out of Time. By the way, there's an amazing manga artist from Japan who does manga adaptations of Lovecraft stories. They're all originally on Japanese but a few of them have been translated into English and they look SICK. A few of them which haven't been translated and properly released have fan translations, too, if you really want to read them. Like I said, the art style is really the main draw.
>>24767213>>24767204
>>24767213It was the inability to distinguish what life was the dream that sealed the deal for me. The idea that there’s another life, more fulfilling and of immense responsibility, potentially left in peril, calling to him while he feels stuck in the flesh prison of reality. Additionally, dreams and dream logic are an interest of mine in general. No comment on the later stories, I’ll have to get there first.I love manga so maybe when I’m done chugging through Lovecraft I’ll give them a look, thanks for the rec.
>>24767227>It was the inability to distinguish what life was the dream that sealed the deal for meI've encountered that trope before, notably in the book Black by Ted Dekker and its sequels.
>>24736100What are the best weird fiction stories / novels featuring:>vampires>were-wolves>mummies>witches
>>24754992Thirding Books of Blood.Cabal (the book that Nightbreed was adapted from) is another solid choice.
>>24767257Werewolves and mummies are not that popular in horror literature; they got their popularity in horror films. (Werewolves are a bit more prevalent in contemporary horror literature, but sadly I'm not that well versed in recent works.) Witches and vampires are very big in horror books, from the very early classics up to contemporary fiction.I know more about early horror, so I'll go chronologically with some classic/important vampire fiction:John Polidori - "The Vampire"Aleksey Tolstoy - "The Family of the Vourdalak", "The Vampire"Sheridan Le Fanu - "Carmilla"Robert Louis Stevenson - "Olalla"Bram Stoker - Dracula, "Dracula's Guest"M.R. James - "Count Magnus", "An episode of Cathedral History"Algernon Blackwood - "The Transfer"Post war:Richard Matheson - I Am LegendStephen King - 'Salem's Lot, also "Jerusalem's Lot" and "One for the Road", both from Night ShiftAnne Rice - Interview With the VampireAngela Carter - "The Lady of the House of Love"John Ajvide Lindqvist - Let the Right One InNathan Ballingrud - "Sunbleached"There's loads of post war vampire fiction that I haven't read yet and cannot comment on, but I am planning on reading Fevre Dream by G.R.R. Martin, and Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite.As for witches, I know less about it than vampires, but I can still recommend a few:Robert Louis Stevenson - "Thrawn Janet" (I hope you're okay with reading Scottish)M.R. James - "The Ash-tree"H.P. Lovecraft - "The Dreams in the Witch House"Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes (more dark fantasy than pure horror, but perfect for Halloween)Ira Levin - Rosemary's BabyI'm also planning on reading Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon. I've read The Other by him and he's an excellent writer.
>Silence of Ghosts by Jonathan Aycliffe>The Fisherman by John Langan>Starve Acre by Andrew Michael HurleyNone of these were scary. 90% of the plot of each novel consisted of some dude moping about his personal problems. Are there any folk/pastoral horror books that are actually scary? I want to read about monsters in the woods, not some guy bitching about how his wife died.
>>24767257Vampire Hunter D has a mix of those. I am not sure if it is weird fiction. It is horror-sci-fi-fantasy blend maybe dying earth
Poppy Z Brite is a tranny and I can't read anything by a tranny.
>>24767494skill issue
>>24736100I'm rereading M.R. James' stories in this lovely Tartarus Press edition, and it's amazing how apt "pleasing terror" is of a descriptor for his work. You can't really call them "scary" but there's something so oddly comfy about them. Maybe because of the quaintness and conversational feel of the stories, it's as if he's your favorite old professor telling you a bunch of campfire stories, but since he's an antiquarian the stories are erudite and filled with minutiae about old books, ecclesiastical architecture, etc. I'm really enjoying it much more on a reread, maybe because I'm not as impatient to see where the plots go and I can fully absorb the atmosphere he's conjuring up. Also, "Martin's Close" is a fantastic story, I wish more weird writers attempted stories that imitate the language of old manuscripts.
>>24768164James' stories are indeed fantastic, and I completely agree with you on the atmosphere they have. My favourites are "The Mezzotint" and "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'".
>>247662401831. I looked online and compared it to the 1818 edition, and they're very similar. All the same stuff happens, but the biggest difference is in the first few chapters, mostly with character backgrounds. Elizabeth goes from being Victor's cousin to being adopted. This website lets you toggle back and forth between editions and they're mostly the same. https://knarf.english.upenn.edu/1831v1/f1406.html
The Cats of Ulthar was fun, I know how much HPL liked his cat.
I think Richard Gavin is the best current Horror writer besides Barron/Ligotti/Kiernan.His style evokes elements of classic werid horror ,while being entirely it's own.
I've been reading this, but I bought it on Kindle for a couple bucks and it seems like they edited it to try to make it fit with modern day better.The first time I noticed is when they said something about a cell phone and I was thinking "wow, she must have been really at the cutting edge of technology", but there are a couple weird things like that that have to be edited.
>>24769077Some of his letters were decorated with cat drawings even.
I don’t know what I expected but Jesus Christ
>>24769338>Le necrophile>I don’t know what I expected
>>24769357It’s very French
>>24747485>>24747922Pleb city in here, Jesus christ
>>24769460Defend the Wizard of Oz ending
Finally bit the bullet and bought a copy of Songs of a Dead Dreamer/Grimmscribe. Fuckin thing is impossible to find for cheap. This copy I bought is used in "Acceptable" condition, and apparently it's a used library book but the cover is so butt-ugly I'll pay $7 less than regular price just to be able to read it while spending as little money as possible. Fuckin hell. The other (used) collection I just bought is also in "Acceptable" condition, but upon looking at the other (all used) copies for sale the next-most expensive one is like $50 CAD so I figure it must be a covetable book.>>24769281Oh great, I love this racist, Jew-loving bastard EVEN MORE now.
>>24769191Is there any book of his that's best to start with?
>>24769485It’s fun and silly
Got around to watching Angel Heart last night and thought it was a fun flick but not nearly as good as the original book Falling Angel. No real surprise there I figured the ending wouldn't work as well without the first person perspective but De Niro clearly had fun with the part even if I think him chewing the scenery at the climax doesn't serve the story . What are some other good horror books that have been adapted for better or worse? No Stephen King, Clive Barker, The Exorcist, or Rosemary's Baby. Hard mode: last 20 years.
>>24771279Ghost Story by Peter Straub is a much MUCH better book than the movie it's based on.Carnosaur by Harry Adam Knight is a great dinosaur horror, the movie is fun has nothing in common with the novel other than the title.
>>24771279Richard Matheson's I Am Legend is a phenomenal novel that cannot have been butchered harder with the Will Smith adaptation, which doesn't have anything to do with the actual plot of the novel.
>>24769796Oh good question! "At Fears Altar" from 2012 is a good place to start. All the stores are pretty strong.
I finished the first Vampire Hunter D book. Decent read the story was the same as the first movie so it wasn't anything new to me but the setting is interesting. The variety in creatures is what I like. The Nobility aka vampires are at the top, but there are also "true" monsters. It mentions a true werewolf and a true medusa. It says these were around before the apocalypse. Speaking of there was a nuclear apocalypse in 1999 in the setting destroying human civ. This led to radiated mutant monsters. So now there are true monsters and radiation mutants. Then vampires took over and form a new society rebuilding with huge sci-fi levels of tech and because vampires are dicks created genetic and cybernetic monsters. So now there are true monsters, genetic/cybernetic created versions and mutated creatures and people.Another spin I like, is after humans destroyed civilization and vampires rebuilt, the Nobility of course rebuilt with Christianity and all memories and knowledge of it erased. So in the books Christianity is unknown and lost. BUT crosses still work and are a lost secret very few know. I kind of find it cool that religious items still work even if the religion is no longer around.Going to go on to the second book now. Should be fun since this one wasn't in a movie and will be a new story for me.
>>24772273Prepare for a whole lotta rape.
>>24772279lol I'm a little surprised but not too much. First book had a bit of a hokey 8 year old brother character that made the book feel less R rated but after Rei-Ginsei and Grecco I can see the rape ramping up.
>>24745541Skeleton is the creepiest story imo.
>>24771433Oh man, good call. This was such a bad adaptation I totally forgot it was based on the Matheson despite the title. I just read it for the first time earlier this year
>>24757686Annihilation?
>>24772273Vampire Deez nutz
>>24772765I read it like 10 or so years ago. It made me think of the song "Hallowed Be Thy Name" by Iron Maiden for some reason (probably the end). It's really good.
Reread the Dark Lot of One Saul by MP Shiel and it's still as good as the first time i read itYou can definitely tell where lovecraft got his inspiration from
>>24767257Darker Than You Think has both witches and werewolves. Only halfway through but enjoying it so far.>>24766535
Finished The Dreams in the Witch House. 9/10.
Just read The Cats of Ulthar and The Doom That Came to Sarnath. You know, as time goes by I feel my appreciation of Lovecraft's works growing more and more. l first discovered him at about age 15, was pretty scared and until I was in my mid- or late-twenties I had only read his most basic-bitch stories (I really need to reread At the Mountains of Madness, for example, since I last read it years and years ago and I didn't have the appreciation of Lovecraft I do now). A few years ago however I started having "eras" where for a few weeks to a few months (now going on indefinitely) I'd read a bunch of Lovecraft. I really feel like the short story format is the best way to communicate the horror genre. This would start out as rereading my favourites, and now it's evolved to reading Lovecraft-ian weird tales eg Clark Ashton Smith and Arthur Machen. I'm still pretty new to this genre actually cause I've never been one to exclusively focus on a singular genre or author for long. It sounds like the other anons in this general are much more ardent horror fans than I – regarding this convo I'm moreso a fan of weird fiction. I've read a few Stephen King books and a few other assorted horror novels, but I've just got the fire for weird fiction right now.
WTF didn't anyone tell me Robert Bloch's writing was this kid, holy shit. "The Hungary House" is one of the best weird fiction stories I've ever read, genuinely frightening.Why isn't his shit talked about more often (besides Pyscho) ??? I
I’LL BE READING THESE THIS MONTHYES I WILL
>>24774651Oh, very cool! I still want to read the Oxford edition of Blackwood's stories (I read the Dover collection called Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood, but they contain a lot of different stories.)
anyone read this?
>>24774752I read the only good Indians
>>24774752I read it and liked it. The bits that are written partly in Blackfoot take some getting used to but I like them and think the multiple interweaving plots were well done
Reading Melmoth the Wanderer right now. Dude is retarded
>>24775090Who, Maturin? Melmoth?
>>24740346Are the re-releases censored?
>>24775497I don't think Pet Sematary has ever been censored, and the recent releases are also not edited or censored.
bump
>>24736100Any stories where there are gods or god-like beings who are actually aspects of a larger entity or even phemonona? Like how most Hindu schools of thought tend to classify their gods as manifestations of Brahman?
>>24775958Not horror, but the closest book I can think of is Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke.
Anyone read contemporary weird fiction?
Kind of strange F Gardner is never mentioned in these threads.
Listen to Edgar Allan Poe stories for freehttps://www.audible.com.au/pd/B00FNTEL5I?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdphttps://www.audible.com.au/pd/B00FMUWJPW?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp
>>24776488You can do that on YouTube though, without an Amazon account.
HELL IN BOTTLESTo the Institute for Oceanographic Research:I hope this letter finds all of you in good health. In accordance with your instructions, we have been gathering the beer bottles, sealed with red wax, that were released for your research on tidal currents as they wash ashore. On the south coast of the island, however, we discovered three bottles that were sealed with a different material. All three bottles were found within two hundred and fifty meters of one another, either buried in the sand or stuck in gaps between rocks. In any case, it appears that all three are quite old, and the contents look to be not the government-issue postcards used for your research, but rather scraps of paper torn from a notebook, and as such it is impossible to enter the standard information in the research logs. In the case that they might provide a reference, we have decided to send you the bottles at our expense, their seals still intact and otherwise untampered with. We hope they prove useful for your research.Sincerely,XX Island, Town HallContents of Bottle-1Father, Mother, Everyone,At long last, a boat has come to rescue us from this deserted island.From a large ship with two smokestacks, two rowboats were dispatched in order to navigate the stormy seas to the island. It appeared that you, mother and father, were on the boats, mixed among all of those who had come to see us off, and we were overcome with homesickness. Someone waved a white handkerchief in our direction, and in an instant we understood.We understood that all of these people and you, our mother and father, must have seen the message from our first bottle, and that you have come to save us.https://as.vanderbilt.edu/nashvillereview/archives/14612
Recs for forest/Blair Witch type horror?
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>>24776639Sticks by Karl Edward Wagner
