Satanic panic edition. Old >>24736100
>>24776661Newborns are not that big c'mon.
>solves horror
>>24776699I used to be a fan of Ligotti but he’s admitted he doesn’t even read novels. He says he just watches television.
>>24776699I got my copy. What story should I start with?
>>24776720Purity
>>24776714based. Most novels are overbloated af, short stories and novellas mog them lmao
>>24776723That story isn't even in that collection dawg.
>>24776740>>24776720Nyctalops Trilogy is his best
>>24776714Dostoyevsky said the exact same thing
Check this cover out brosNasty stuffSurprisingly hard to find as well
Which secondary literature is best to learn about Lovecraft?
>>24776769I wonder what Dostoyevskys favorite show was
>>24776777It's hilarious how a jeet is nominally Lovecraft's biggest and most publicly visible fan.
>>24776857Joshi's a very nice man and knowledgeable. Why disparage him?
>>24776877Well Lovecraft was quite disparaging of Indians, is what I'm saying...
>>24776880He also dedicated a lot of his works to Sarnath. He even has a story about "Hindoos". His racist beliefs barely figured into his creative work.
>>24776889You don't know what you're talking about.
>>24776891I've read Lovecraft's entire corpus. Outside of Red Hook, there is barely any racist content in Lovecraft's stories or poems. His letters are where the racism surfaces.
>>24776932Huh. What about Herbert West: Reanimator?
>>24776938Is that the only other story of his you have read? It's not even an important work. It was written as a joke for a comedy zine.
>>24776952
>>24776956Very nice, anon.
>>24776967not mine sorry >.<just googled first edition of GGP and thought it was a lovely looking book
>>24776971Awh, too bad.
>>24776961Charlatan.I'll go away and listen to Christopher Lee recite me stories from the master of Boston.
>>24776975I mean that's cool and all, but you're still wrong.
>>24776932"He", "The Terrible Old Man", "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", "Medusa's Coil", "On the Creation of N*****s", "New-England Fallen", "The Call of Cthulhu", and "The Street" all have obvious racist themes and/or remarks (not even mentioning the cat in "The Rats in the Walls"), on top of the already mentioned "The Horror at Red Hook" and "Herbert West: Reanimator".
Thor by Wayne SmithWerewolf vs family dog
need feminist horror to impress the QTs at my book club
>>24777435Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin are great classics, as well as the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
>>24776956Machen’s ‘The Hill of Dreams’ is the most “literally me” meme next to Ignatius Reilly.
>>24776889>>24776932>>24777028>Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
This seems like a decent list of space horror:https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/17148.Space_Horror
>>24777435Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber' retelling of fairy and folk tales, particularly The Company of Wolves
>>24778022Seconding The Bloody Chamber, it's a fantastic collection.
>>24777718He’s right tho. The “racism” in Lovecraft work is largely overblown and exaggerated by progressives or lefties with an agenda. If you actually read other writers of his era (or were familiar with media and society of the 20s/30s) you’d know that his views were fairly normal. Remember in ww2 American soldiers were surveyed and a majority were more comfortable with losing the war than ending segregation. George Wallace ran on an explicitly racial platform in 1968! (Decades after Lovecraft death) and he did better than any other third party candidate since.
Anyone else love Conjure Wife?
>>24776795Thank you
>>24778418You're missing the point. It's not that it's not overblown, but it is there, whereas the other anon said there's virtually none. Anyways, this is a very trite and pedantic thing to quibble over, so I'm done talking about it.
>>24776720Last Feast of Harlequinn
>>24778469I haven't read anything by Leiber yet. Any of his other works you'd recommend?
>>24777610Yeah and i'm surprised it doesn't get more traction on /lit/
>>24779578The Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stuff is a lot of fun. In terms of his other horror writing I love his short story The Smoke Ghost.https://anilbalan.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/smoke-ghost1.pdf
>>24778681It makes it a better read, more gritty more real. He is the undisputed master of horror GOAT.
I need you help /hfg/. I'm looking for some good horror fiction that features romantic/sexual relationships of a disturbing or transgressive nature. Preferably not erotica or romance. I've already read and looking for more stuff like:>Carmilla>Interview with the Vampire>Let the Right One In>The Haar>The Exorcist>The Bloody Chamber>Clive Barker's work>Poppy Z Brite's workwhere do I go from here?
>>24780834The works of Tanith Lee.
I enjoyed this one quite a bit
>>24780489Undeniably true. >>24778702Read that one already. Very mid imo. I'll check out the Nyctalops Trilogy like >>24776760 suggested, thanks. I'm thinking I might read Michelle Remembers sometime very soon, but idk yet. I wanna finish Lovecraft's Dream Cycle first.
Finished The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell yesterday and it was just okay. Probably Evenson's weakest collection, there weren't any stand out stories for me like in Windeye or A Collapse of Horses.
post score /hfg/https://www.mentalfloss.com/quizzes/match-opening-line-to-horror-novel-quiz
What's some good sci-fi horror that's more on the hard SF side and less on the soft/weird side, similar perhaps to I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream?Also, opinions on the book Ubik by Philip K. Dick? In my opinion it fits neatly into the weird fiction category, and is an unlikely existential horror novel. It's honestly terrifying, on a certain intellectual level.
>>24782034Ubik, and PKD in general, is great. If you like that kind of existential terror, then Three Stigmata and Flow My Tears by him hit the same highs.
>>24782052I know man, lol. Still need to read VALIS someday. I actually purchased a copy of picrel recently for not too too bad a price, so maybe I'll read it soon.
>>24782034Blood Music by Greg Bear The Legacy of Heorot, by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven BarnesBlindsight by Peter Watts
>>24782109I've heard Blindsight is good, but it seems so...self-published, if that makes any sense.
Quitters Inc is the only Stephen King I’ve genuinely enjoyed
So I'm reading Lovecraft's Dream Cycle right now right. Oftentimes the imagery makes me think of this Cathedral album in particular, for some reason.
I made this a few years back as my horror reading list. Pretty good picks as it turns out.
>>2478189984%, I haven't read Fledgling or most contemporary novels mentioned in the quiz.>>24782401Which ones have you read since then? What'd you think of them?
>>24782401Made a quick one. What do you think?
wrong thread mb, pg 8 bump at least
What are some good examples of horror poetry?
>>24783339I don't know much about this at all, but I've heard that Clark Ashton Smith is pretty good with horror poetry.
>>24776699Ligotti sucks and I will die on this hill.
>>24779578Smoke Ghost
>>24782414Fledgling is weird. I wouldn't call it good and recommend it, but it had some off the wall loli vampire episodes, which is apparently ok because woman author. Wasp Factory was a bit too tryhard. The big standouts for me were The Exorcist, Blatty's ability to draw out the reveal works even when you've seen the movie. He invests so much in making the reactions to the problem natural, that they try all the sane solutions first, before reaching the insane ones, and even then covering it all with layers of doubt, which is of course the main point of the antagonist.And also Blackwater, which reads like a long familial saga, and isn't so much horrific as consistently unsettling. You're so close to the horror's POV in the story, without really learning all that much about it. It doesn't neatly fit into something you've read before in format or as a creature feature so it remained creepy.
Not sure if it counts but I’ve been reading my wife a chapter of A Night In The Lonesome October by Zelazny every day this month and it is so cozy bros
>>24783435I've read The Wasp Factory, but it was a long time ago.The Exorcist is fantastic, like you say. I haven't read Blackwater, but I did read The Elementals, which was also great.
This might be a good place to ask.Does anyone know the name of this American horror/dark writer?She was white, dark hair, goth, probably lesbian or gender fluid something like that.I remember there's a picture of her sitting next to a dinosaur statue.She never made it into the mainstream, but she was more "popular" in the 2000s.
>>24783497That's Caitlín R. Kiernan.
Read To Walk The Night by William Sloane
>>24783574Protip: get The Rim of Morning, which has both To Walk the Night, and The Edge of Running Water (and it's currently in print and not overly expensive).
>>24783619Fair, this is the version I read. I just wanted to post a more aesthetic cover
>>24783624Very fair, that cover is sick.
>>24783339I would hope everyone ITT has read Poe's 'The Raven', go do so right now if not. a few others>Coleridge 'Christable'https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43971/christabel>Byron 'Darkness'https://allpoetry.com/poem/8511087-Darkness-by-George-Gordon-Byron>Lovecraft 'Nemesis' and many othershttps://pulp-lit.com/assets-bundles/28-Fungi/LOVECRAFT-FungiFromYuggoth.pdf>Clark Ashton Smith 'The Hashish Eater'http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/poetry/572/the-hashish-eater--or--the-apocalypse-of-evil
Books written before 2000 are not scary.
>>24781055thank you, any book in particular I should start with?
>>24783729Night's Master is a perfect introduction to her style, a great blend of fantasy, horror and erotiscism.The Book of the Dammed is also another good one to start.
>>24783703What books do you find scary, then?
>>24783836Ones written after 2000.
>>24783703This but the opposite.
