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>>25182894No, stay in this thread. I messed up the subject line.
What's your favorite multi-author anthology?
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>>25182897Lol you fucked up </3
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>>25182568Make sure to include the following in the next OP:Notable Authors: H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, Robert Bloch, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edogawa Rampo, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Brian Evenson, William Hope Hodgson, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R Kiernan, Laird Barron, Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon, Brian Lumley, Stefan Grabinski, Peter Straub, and many many moreDiscuss your favorite horror tales in both short and long form. What have you read lately? What do you want to read? What's a work of horror fiction or an author who you want to recommend?General archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=hfg
>>25182910Based. I managed to cop a like-new (used) copy off the 'zon for only about $20 CAD. This was not that long after putting it in my wishlist. Most copies were going for hundreds of dollars so when I saw that some apparently hapless third party seller had evidently lowballed themselves I snatched it up immediately.
Now, as we were discussing in the messed up general thread.Negative Space by B. R. Yeager is one of the best horror novels of the 2020's. It is amazing how the millennial author, born in 1984, is able to capture the generational experience of a zoomer in high school in 2018 so perfectly and make it into a great story.
>>25182923Was it a good anthology? I always try to get one through my library through interlibrary loan before I buy it. Want to make sure I get my money's worth.
>>25182926I'll do Negative Space general edition next time. I'll make sure I won't fuck up again lol
>>25182926B. R. Yeager is releasing a new book next year.
I kind of miss being able to be scared by fiction. I discovered Lovecraft totally by accident when I was 14-15 (picrel collection). The first few stories were The Rats in the Walls, The Outsider, and The Portrait in the House and I found them to be absolutely hair-raising. >>25182929I haven't read the whole thing but it has some really good stories by A-List authors in it. I was disappointed to discover the Arthur C Clarke story was quite a dud, though.
>>25182934>Toad PsalmWill Tsathoggua make an appearance?
>>25182940Interesting. I thought the Nine Billion Names of God by Clark works very well as a horror story. Sad to hear his horror doesn't work in other stories.
Hey everyone, I just discovered the guy behind HorrorBabble just released Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborea Cycle on audio:>https://youtu.be/HcvNvLhriDI>https://fantasybabble.bandcamp.com/album/the-hyperborean-cycle>>25182947No it wasn't that one. It was called A Walk in the Dark.
>>25182957Oh no, I looked it up too. I was saying its sad Clarke couldn't write more good horror like the Nine Billion Names of God.
Have a question for the thread. How are Robert E. Howard's horror stories? Are they any good? Was thinking of picking up a collection of his.
What's the secret to writing horror?
>>25182971looking at ur mom for inspo
>>25182967Was also wondering what collection I should get. Thought about pic related but most of the stories are also in the collection from my previous post. The only stories exclusive to pic related is called "The Valley of the Worm" from his James Allison cycle. Is that one of his best stories or do I not need it? Other then that there's two poems only in pic related called "Arkham" and "Silence Falls on Mecca's Walls"; I'm not much of a poetry reader so I don't think I should go looking for those either.
>>25182975>>25182967There's also this collection
>>25182961You know what actually, I've never read The Nine Billion Names of God before, or The Sentinel either come to think of it. I just ordered a cheap collection (picrel). It comes on Saturday. I might just listen to it on audio first though because it's on YouTube. I wasn't aware it was horror-adjacent though until you brought it up.
>>25182967>>25182975>>25182981I'd just go with the Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard. Has all his biggest horror stories from what I can see.
>>25182986I mean it definitely feels horror like when I read it. The short story I mean, not sure about the rest of the collection.
>>25182987It also has illustrations, so yeah, get that book.
Horror fiction autism is an altogether different kind of beast.
>>25182994It's the type of autism that gets you laid by goth chicks.
>>25182922Also, don't make the next thread until the current one hits page 10.
>>25182915Hey, is the guy who made this still around? Is this official done?
>>25182996hasn't helped me on that front whatsoeverthat's the real horror
>>25182926I thought millennials were anyone born from 1985-1996?This guy might be late Gen X.
>>25183011Millennials are 1982-1996 IIRC. The start year may be 1980 depending on who you ask.
Just finished The Nine Billion Names of God. I kinda see how it can be described as a horror story and I kinda don't. The last act defo had a sense of dread to it. But it wasn't exactly trying to be explicitly horrific if that makes any sense. There's a great recording of ACC doing a reading himself on YouTube if anyone wants to check it out. Now back to Songs/Grimscribe...
Only a few pages in but this feels like slop all horror lit is
>>25182907So inexplicably my library has a copy of the first edition of The Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell. I checked out but haven't read it yet. Maybe I'll start today. Anyone here know what I should be getting into? Seems like a folk horror and Lovecraftian novel.
>>25183068Forgot pic
>>25182996>>25183010I feel like most goth chicks today read dark romantasy with BDSM overtones.
>>25183065One of the best horror novels of the 2010's in my opinion.
So has anyone finished Mark Z. Danielewski's mountain of a new book yet (It's 1,200 pages)? I heard he returns to his horror roots like in House of Leaves.
>>25183073"Overtones" is putting it VERY lightly lmoa.>>25183078Eh I strongly feel he's a one-hit wonder.
>>25183068Oh, so that's who this guy was >>25178085
>>25183081Remember when he was supposed to write a 27-volume long work lmao. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Familiar,_Volume_1:_One_Rainy_Day_in_May
>>25183086Yeah that's Ramsey Campbell.
>>25183088Yeah he started coming out w/ those not long after I finished w/ House of Leaves (I was 21 at the time). I started in on the first one but couldn't finish it. It was just way too YA-coded, unengaging, confusing and meandering.
What did we think of it?
>>25182568that is such a baller line
>>25182994horror autism is the best kind of autism. very strong community and very friendly. I believe this is a direct result of the video nasties era.
>>25183182Tape trading used to be a huge thing to. That's how underground movies used to spread.
>>25182902I need more recs like this but for audible since there’s a big sale and anthologies are like 3-4 bucks. Buys so far:The Book of GhoulsThe Book of HasturDemons of King SolomonHowls From the Dark Ages
>>25183193exactly. because horror movies were so vilified, banned and cut-up, the only way to get the good shit was trading, and that required a solid community and relationships with other people that were into the same niche. that culture, I think, has carried over into the modern day.
>>25183198>buying DRM-protected content that you don't really own nor can you download and keep>esp when you can prob find most of those on AudioBookBayRART.
>>25183198Oh also anthologies previously read: Gods of HP Lovecraft, good. The followup Azathoth was less good. Eldritch Prisoners is a connected anthology and was just ok. The Abyssal Plain was pretty good, more of a doomsday vibe as the world ends. Some edging toward splatterpunk even more so in the sequel which is worse. Lovecraft’s Monsters was the best of the bunch so far. All anthologies have ups and downs of course, we’re talking on average.
>>25183207You must be a zoomer. The books on ABB are largely FROM audible you dumb little shit. There’s this thing called a desktop that has programs that can do things with audio files, such as stripping their DRM. A desktop is a computer. It’s like your phone but it can actually do things.
>>25183216>The books on ABB are largely FROM audibleExactly, you vile little cretin. You could just not choose to waste your money, yet you do.
What are some good alien horror books and why are they so rare? I don't want full science fiction maybe more along the lines of they are there but staying in the background without coming into full view but the characters realise something isn't right due to their presence
>>25183290Steve Perry/S.D. Perry write a lot of Alien extended-universe stuff (and a lot of other franchises). They're pretty good, very established. I've had a couple books from them since I was a kid. Dead Space: Martyr is also really good.
Who is the most horror /lit/ band and why is it Current 93?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twMK4lAn01s
>>25183329Can someone please tell David Tibet to republish The Moons At Your Door?
>>25182903I got that but I was forced to use an ebook to read it because I don't like the double-column text on each page. It's just too small for me.
>>25182967>>25182975>How are Robert E. Howard's horror stories? Are they any good?They're great. You have the stories that draw strong influence from the writers he liked (Lovecraft, Machen, Doyle and Kipling) and you have the more Howardian horror stories that have either have a lot more action and adventure or draw from the tales of his native Texas and the slave folklore of the plantation south. get the del ray horror stories because it has more stories, howard's poetry and some good artwork to go along with it
>>25183271Does desperately pivoting from your original points normally work for you? I thought the problem was that it was DRM protected? Or that I "didn't actually own it". Now it's that it costs money, any money whatsoever. Maybe your problem is that you're a broke little pissant who doesn't understand technology?
>>25182902I practised my Spanish with this collection:https://tercerafundacion.net/biblioteca/ver/ficha/1440
>>25182902Dark Forces and 999 are great.>>25182940I broke my Lovecraft cherry around 12 with the collection Black Seas of Infinity (from a book club). I recently ordered it again for nostalgic purposes even though I probably own most of the stories in other books.>>25182967That's an excellent collection.>>25182971Write what you know and make it creepy>>25183065I don't care what any snob on /lit/ thinks that book is a great adventure.
What good nonfiction on horror would you recommend? I like Joshi's Unutterable Horror and I want to buy Barron's guide.
>>25183549Unutterable Horror isnt that good. Less a history and more ST Joshi basically giving reasons on why he likes or dislikes certain authors throughout horror history.
>>25183124Literally never heard of it until you posted it.
>>25183589It's refreshing to know that not everyone worships Stephen King though.
>>25183631Trust me, there’s plenty of horror authors that don’t. They don’t try to rebel against him like they do Lovecraft, but there’s plenty of horror authors who aren’t big King fans.
>>25183329Their collabs with Ligotti are awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sryfql1tSvk
>>25183329Current 93 is the frontrunner but Swans and Throbbing Gristle get pretty close
>>25183631Joshi seethes at everyone who doesn't write weird fiction
>>25184102King has written some Lovecraftian stories though. Crouch's End and Jerusalem's Lot.
>>25184229>Crouch's End and Jerusalem's LotI knew about Jerusalem's Lot. Probably my all-time favourite weird fiction story not by Lovecraft, actually. Haven't heard of Crouch's End tho so I'll check that out.
>>25184229Doesn't Revival count too
>>25184386Haven't read it yet.
What horror stories are there that don't actually suck? I feel like short stories from creepypasta end up being spookier than like 95% of books in the horror genre.
How is it?
Is T.E.D. Klein worth reading? The Ceremonies looks pretty great
>>25185361>phallic monsters>naked woman>Lincoln as CharonI'd say it's a nice cover.
Why does no one talks about this one?
>>25186592>Look up the book>Written by Danny Wylde the pornstar who appeared in both straight and gay pornJesus
>>25186702It's supposedly very very good, in the same realm as Negative Space or Dennis Cooper
This shit sucked so hard by the end. Complete waste of a good premise. Can't believe I got duped into reading this and wasting my whole day.Had to jam in the Israel allegory too.
>>25185931His short stories are outstanding
Time for crab
I've actually been enjoying Joe Hill a lot lately. Read King Sorrow, NOS482, Heart Shaped Box, and a couple of his short story collections over the course of the last year. He's aight for a nepo baby.
>>25184386>>25184550Revival is definitely Lovecraftian. Unironically one of the best endings for a King book, despite some parts of the story being slow to get there.
Stephen King is way too prolix.
>>25186733Lol I remember World War Z has Israel the first one to suspect the zombie threat.
Yeeeeeehaaaaw
Fellow readers, how does one promote a book these days? I've already created an audiobook versionNote: This is an earlier cover
>>25187663Buy an ad
>>25187640Also the jews invite all non-infected goyim including Arabs into their nation. Lol!
>>25187867No, I believe it was just the world's Jews and the Palestinians. This causes a civil war between the Israeli government and the Orthodox Jewish community radicals.After the war, the two-state solution is achieved. I'm pretty sure Max Brooks is a liberal Zionist.
>>25187663Give us a synopsis
>>25182568What is the greatest edition of King In Yellow?
>>25189306Just get a copy with annotations
>>25188794>A world caught in an endless war...A world where Western civilization is but a distant memory...a world on the brink of...GLOBAL ANARCHY>TL;DR If the current world we live in could be described as SATAN then what follows is SATAN 2.0. The current cover is AI-slop (albeit loosely based on the finale) and I wish I knew what scene to use for my cover...I've sent the audio version to a few friends but it's an EPIC (almost 9 hours in Romanian, a bit over 8 in English) so it'll take a while until they can give me any pointers (They have jobs and even families, unlike me). It's on Youtube (Channel: BE3R), recently posted...Global Anarchy: Audiobook seems to work as a search termI've had SOME positive feedback but until more people give it a listen I myself don't even know how to promote it...Or what to do to eventually make a game out of it (Can't code to save my life, wanted to make a Deus Ex-like, but don't have a team and I do not want to create AI slop)TL;DR Gib ffedback plz
>>25189888>8-9 hour audiobook is an epicHuh?
Anyone else here love Swan Song? It mogs The Stand (and I like The Stand).
>>25186733Remember he also writes Minecraft books for kids.
>>25182568Why does he mog pretty much every other weird fiction writer? He makes everyone else look like inarticulate cavemen / Stephen King. No one matches his prose in terms of sheer elegance and subtlety.
>>25186733How do you make a Bigfoot book about Israel
>>25189702I might spring for the one annotated by Joshi thanks
Any good Clark Ashton Smith collections highlighting his horror?
I’m 3/4 of the way through. I was told this was amazing, great, etc. It’s just kinda meh. Am I retarded?
>>25192356Pic related
>>25189888Try /wng/
>>25192335Just get the Penguins Classic edition. Good overview of his fiction and poetry.
>>25192782I'm not a big fan of poetry in general so I'm hesitant to buy that one.
>>25192945This is all I got for you then.https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?272516
>>25192957Looks like a good collection but it's not available on Amazon.
Nvm it is on Amazon but it goes for about $150 CAD used.
>>25192782Thanks anon.
While reading Songs/Grimscribe I sometimes I get this weird feeling that's hard to explain. It recalls my deep childhood when autumn and Halloween meant something highly inexplicable, atmospheric and...orange, if that makes any sense. Very cartoonish, witchy and timeless, and reeking of the seventeenth century.
Hey guys. I recently started playing a vidya called fear and hunger and it made me think about horror fantasy. Could someone recommend something of the sort? Google searching has only shown me a series called “the prince of nothing” and a book called “the daughter’s war”. I really like an uncomfortable aesthetic/feel in media and would love some suggestions. For reference I liked asoiaf and some Stephen king when I was an teen and more recently enjoyed roadside picnic and solaris. Not that those are horror but just as a reference. Please no warhammer trash. Any other suggestions will be much appreciated.
>>25193132Clark Ashton Smith has some stories like this. Namely "The Empire of the Necromancers."
>>25193132Yeah Bakker would probably be good for you but don't skip out on Robert E Howard, Karl Edward Wagner, and that one fantasy story from Ligotti
>>25193155Also Gormenghast
>>25193155>that one fantasy story from LigottiAre you thinking of Masquerade of a Dead Sword?
>>25193174Yes that one! Phenomenal story
>>25193147>>25193155>>25193164Thanks guys. I’ll be writing these all down and looking into them
>>25193177You're welcome! M John Harrison might also be worth looking into, and I know Laird Barron has one or two sword and sorcery stories
>>25193183And how could I forget, Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
Where are the Laymon fans?Read Island, Come Out Tonight, One Rainy Night, Beware, Endless Night and In the Dark so far. All ranged from decent (Come Out Tonight) to good, sleazy fun (Beware and Endless Night) to fucking great (In the Dark)
>>25193351Endless Night looks amazing, just nonstop fast paced horrific violence and tension. I want to read A Night In The Lonesome October. Out of all of his books the one that appeals to me the most though is One Rainy Night
>>25193354One Rainy Night is action packed but in my opinion the characters are especially weak for Raymon -- and the novel lacks a really strong, memorable villain (Beware and Endless Night have memorable villains to say the least, they're incredibly twisted and brutal)
I wish more horror writers captured human ugliness the way Jack Ketchum does. You normally only see realistic nastiness like that in transgressive literature or grit lit like McCarthy, William Gay, or Lansdale
>>25193363Laymon captures human ugliness quite well IMO: his protagonists/"heroes" are usually deeply flawed (selfish, predatory, immoral) and sometimes even guilty of sins on par with his villains
>>25193365That's definitely on track with what I'm looking for. Ryan C Thomas, JF Gonzalez, Bryan Smith, and Wrath James White all seem like they operate in that same realm.
>>25192428Thank you kindly anon, that worked!
How is Necroscope?
>>25192356>>25192358I think there's a large normie audience that enjoys the unique concept (a native American vampire novel with some real historical connections) but the content of the book itself is pretty underwhelming.
>>25195138I've heard better things about The Only Good Indians
>>25195692Can't say. Buffalo Hunter Hunter was the first and so far only story of GSJ's that I've read. But if you're the guy who's read 3/4 of the story and not liking it, you're almost certainly not going to like the ending.The best part of the story is probably about 2/3 of the way in where Good Stab takes turns Catman into a fish and the worst part is definitely the ending where Etsy becomes the narrator again, holy shit she is the most obnoxious character in the book and it's not even close. And her ending segment is significantly longer than her into segment.
Finally started reading The Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell. Read the first quarter of the book.Reminds of a Stephen King novel. Set in a small town with a lot of close-minded evangelicals but with a hidden secret.
>>25195113The first two are alright. A bit too excessive on the exposition and cold war espionage stuff, but when they do focus on the vampires, it's some good shit. Planning to read the third later this month, hope the vampire stuff gets more focus from now on.
>>25186776>should I look at a close up picture of a crab before I draw them?>no I'll just give them mouths full of fangs, crabs have mouths full of fangs right?
>>25195113Stopped doing let's plays years ago, I'm afraid.
>>25195870Getting better. Like the story of the druids with this creature from the moon.
>>25182915the Monk is such a good novel. I read it for the first time last year and I think it will stick with me for life. strongly suggest it to anyone even remotely interested in gothic horror & christian theology. what a phenomenal book.>tfw no demon bitch larping as a boy to orchestrate scenarios of betrayal in a monastery
>>25182568What's the best horror book or short story that takes place on Halloween?
>>25182568Any books that blend grit lit with horror?
>>25190057A bookstore owner said to me that On The Beach, The Stand, and Swan Song are the three best in that category
>brb while I go monologue about my infidelity in my sleeping 8 y/o daughter's bedroomLmao what the fuck
>>25200632Malerman has never stood out to me, I remember being interested when there was buzz around Bird Box (way before the Netflix adaptation), but not much after. Also kek what the fuck
How's Bentley Little? I want something in the vein of Richard Laymon in the sense that there's a place for gruesome violence/sexual perversion but not *JUST* those things: some semblance of a narrative with characters who have goals, personality (be it paper-thin, but still) etc.
>>25200644For what you're looking for Little is solid but what you really want is Jack Ketchum
>>25200640I stopped reading about halfway through, but the girl's parents using her bedroom (while she's asleep) as a confessional booth happened multiple times and apparently happens several more times later in the book.The author rigidly sticks to the perspective of the girl throughout the story, and I guess this is his heavy-handed way of trying to build the parent's characters. It kinda comes across like cringe comedy though.
>>25183078I've heard nothing but good things, but I didn't know it was a horror novel.
>>25182568>Ginger Snaps on /lit/
I've been slowly chipping away at Richard Laymon's bibliography over the years. I've heard him called a more trashy Stephen King and the more I read the more I'm starting to believe since he seems to have trouble sticking the landing.
>>25193351For Laymon I've read Island, Funland, Resurrection Dreams, The Traveling Vampire Show, and Flesh.I enjoyed Island even the ending, could have gone without a few points near the end where it was uncomfortableFlesh was great, had a real slasher feelFunland had good flow but wasn't a fan of how things wrapped up.Resurrection Dreams started strong then went i n a different direction.The Traveling Vampire Show I wasn't a fan, too many false starts for my taste.
>>25193351>>25201542I recently found a Laymon book in a little free library but I'm not reading it, I'll exchange it by a better one.
The only horror books I've read are Frankenstein and 70% of House of Leaves. Other than that just short stories. Any recs are welcome.
>>25202019Scroll up in the thread, retard. There's literally a chart.
>>25202167Fuck you you fucking piece of shit. I hope you and your family die in a fucking car crash, nerd.
>>25182915>readingThe Monk (Not really scared yet beyond a general sense of Monk being so tempted by flesh during Part I with the snake bite)>Have ReadKing in Yellow (first story was best but I also liked the church one)Poe Collection (been a while but Tell-Tale Heart is still the goat of paranoid schizo for me.I am Legend (I didn't consider this scary imo)The Shining and various other King books not on chart (I think I like it best when the location is a character more than the actual beings)Barron's short story collections (Swift to Chase was a fucking slog. Went full retard once it became more than some creepy Alaskan murder spree).
Stumbling across this without being aware of the hype was a blessing. Decided to read it because an anon in a previous horror thread said it was okay but not great and I was looking for stories about spirits/creatures that live in the woods and are connected to some grim event or lore in the past. So I was just expecting a novel about some guys that get lost in the woods and find an abandoned shack or something before getting haunted by a ghost or spirit. I couldn’t have been more wrong lol. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
>>25202383Read it last January, absolutely loved it.
>>25202383It sucked cock and so do you.
>>25202383Poor mans Lovecraft "uooohh spooky fish ppl" dogshit
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>>25202431>>>/tv/219584240
Can anyone recommend some good parasite horror? I've read The Troop by Nick Cutter a few years ago and I remember loving it. Also enjoyed Peeps by Scott Westerfeld but it's not really horror.I just love reading about people studying some fantastical parasite, theorizing about it, and then seeing it actually do its thing.
>>25202457Slither by Edward Lee, Slugs by Shaun Hutson has both slugs and parasites that live inside of them
>>25200619On the Beach doesn't have supernatural elements so what category is he talking about?Post-apocalyptic fiction? Guess he's never read The Dog Stars or The Road because they're both better than The Stand. Never read On The Beach but I read about 20% of Swan Song, couldn't finish it because I didn't like any of the characters or plotlines.
>>25202457Flesh by Richard Laymon
>>25202383>>25202391>>25202392>>25202418Seems this book is an either love it or hate it. I'm just glad there's more spooky stuff being set in the Hudson Valley. That place is pretty spooky isn't used enough in fiction like the Pacific Northwest or New England.
>>25182915>Next upHaunting of Hill House. I'm finishing a Ishiguro book, but this is next on the list. I liked the miniseries, I'm curious to see how the book compares (I know they aren't 1:1)>ReadMR James Collected Ghost Stories - 8/10I Am Legend - 8/10 The Exorcist - 9/10Ghost Story - 6/10The Elementals - 10/10 (one of the only books that's genuinely creeped me out)Books of Blood - 7/10The Cipher - 10/10 (one of my favorites, finished it on my wedding day)Exquisite Corpse - 8/10House of Leaves - 7/10World War Z - 8/10The Terror - 7/10The Fisherman - 9/10What should I absolutely read next? I want to get back into horror, I've been reading a ton of sci-fi lately
>>25203651>The Exorcist - 9/10>World War Z - 8/10Get a load of this guy.
>>25202383ChatGPT recommended it to me when I asked it for horror recs. Had never heard of it, was one of the first non Steven King horror novels I'd ever read. Absolutely loved it, found a horror thread on /lit/, never really opened them but saw The Fisherman referenced in the chart. Off to the races. I'm trying to work my way through the whole chart but I keep getting sidetracked.Having read a lot of horror now, I wouldn't put it too high on my list of horror favorites, but I gotta give it props for getting me into the genre
>>25203658I liked The Exorcist a lot, I probably rated WWZ too high if I'm being honest. There were chunks that were interesting and compelling, but it was too long and got kind of boring. I think the format got kind of old.I'd read The Exorcist again, I'm never going to read WWZ again.
>>25202457The Infected trilogy by Scott Sigler
>>25202383I thought it didn't live up to the hype, but it was still like a 6/10 for me. I like Barron more for cosmic horror stuff.
>>25202757>>25203022>>25203720Thank you very much!
Are there any books that evoke the same surreal nightmarish feeling as Italian horror films?>>25205201You're very welcome!
>>25206033With all the horrific kills too I should add
>>25199614A Lonesome Night in October and The Halloween Tree
>>25182568I hated that movie
Good book if Alien is my favorite movie of all time?
>>25206525Starfish by Peter Watts
>>25202383I like Langan's short stories, but not enough to have immediately purchased a novel from him the way I did Barron.
>>25206514Faggot!
Which Sword and Sorcery writer did better horror, Robert E Howard or Karl Edward Wagner?
>>25209051I like Wagner's horror shorts. Haven't read Howard yet.
recc some war horror
It was retarded and poorly written, but at least it held my interest throughout most of it.4/10
>"Slither", Edward LeeJust finished. I'm compelled to call it porn disguised as a horror novel. Every single chapter has at least one sex or masturbation scene. Half the book is descriptions of "flat bellies" and "supple orbs". I understand that the whole premise is about parasites that change reproductive behavior, but most of those scenes aren't even the fun parasite ones! Which is a real damn shame, because when it gets to actually talking about parasites it's decent.The author also loves to repeat himself in back-to-back scenes or chapters. There's a couple that don't add absolutely anything to characterization or plot, since there's a similar scene that communicates the same thing much more efficiently just after or before them.At first I also thought that multiple POVs were kind of destroying all the mysteries, but I have to admit, I didn't see the end-of-book plot twist coming at all. That was very good. Although one alien being attracted to human women was kinda weird.The last scene was fun.Also, what WAS the reason for mc's erotic dream? It's in the blurb on the cover and all but there's no explanation, unless I missed something.All in all, 5ish/10. Could easily be cut in half, but I still enjoyed the good parts.
>>25210000Edward Lee loves his crazy sex scenes
>>25209051E.R. Eddison and Brain McNaughton
>>25209866I've only read the original self-published version (That retains all the SCP stuff). I enjoyed it.
>>25183015I don't like the fact I'm considered Millennial. I hate my own generation.
>>25207693¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Need a good horror book for my wife's birthday. Got between two fires as a rec here last year and she liked it enough to recommend it to friends. Any other recs?
>>25210736The version I read definitely maintained "all the SCP stuff" but simply renamed it; SCP organization = Unkown organization etc. That being said, the book had almost all of the negative traits of SCP such as comically ridiculous psuedo science, redactions, and generally amateurish writing.
>>25210834The Lesser Dead if you want more Buehlman but I think The Fisherman by John Langan would be a solid choice too
>>25183011For a site so goddamn obsessed with muh generashuns astrology not one of you morons seem to agree what the age ranges are.
>>25210834I second The Lesser Dead. Phenomenal ending.
>>25182915>>25183001I hadn't checked this board in a while, but yes I am still around. I made that chart, and it is not 'officially' done yet. I'm still reading a lot, especially older works and non-English works, to try to make the 'best' chart possible. It will still take years, but I'm working on it and have already found some books that definitely deserve to be on the chart that aren't yet (and some that can be removed, like The Rats, which just isn't a 'good' book, Between Two Fires, which is written so poorly it really disappointed me, despite all the cool ideas the book has, and Ring, which just straight up isn't a horror novel.)I also want to have a section with just short stories, for the authors who have written only a few influential short stories. I want to give them a section without pictures, so a lot can be added in a relatively small space. A few stories by Hoffmann, Gogol, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Aleksey Tolstoy, Edogawa Ranpo, to name a few.Some that I think should be added to the chart:>Jeremias Gotthelf - The Black Spider>Hanns Heinz Ewers - Alraune>Gustav Meyrink - The Golem (maybe; not sure of it yet)>Horacio Quiroga - The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories (very likely, still need to read it but have heard so many good things about it)>Jean Ray - Malpertuis>Roland Topor - The Tenant>Giorgio de Maria - The Twenty Days of Turin>Anne Rivers Siddons - The House Next Door>Karl Edward Wagner - In a Lonely Place>Samanta Schweblin - Fever DreamI am still not very well versed in contemporary horror literature, but I'm mostly focusing on older works anyway; I think the early horror and post-war sections are the most important to get right.
>>25206525Christopher Rowley's slop.
>>25201439Indeed.>Error: You seem to have mistyped the CAPTCHA. Please try again.Fuck this motherfucker site man lol
>>25182915I read Let the Right One In literally half my life ago. I was 16, I'm 32 now. Holy fuck.
>>25211556That'd be more relevant if he had said Halo.
>>25182568What's the closest thing I can get to The Navidson Record?
>>25212880What aspect of it are you looking for?
>>25212880Cognitohazards? Uhhhhh... Lemme think.. ummmm.....
>>25212643Yeah, but at least Rowley wrote his own slop.
>>25206033And By God's Hand You Shall Die by David Sodergren is explicitly influenced by Fulci horror films.
>>25209836Lynortis Reprise
>>25210834If anthologies are fine then Cold, Thin Air volumes 1 and 2 by C.K. Walker.
>>25213785How pozzed is it? Since he's a libtard femishit.
>>25214091Um there's some disrespectful stuff about the Church in it so if thats a dealbreaker stay away. To say more would give it all away.
>>25214131Zogslop as well.Sad.
>>25212880Horror Movie by Paul Trembly
>>25182568The West has fallen!
>>25182568Redpill me on Gautier.
>>25213785I picked that one up a few weeks ago with The Final Gate and the two Hell books. But thank you anyway, it's definitely in line with what I'm looking for when I asked that question! Should I read CAS' work since The Book of Eibon shows up prominently in The Beyond?
>>25186733I spent $1.25 on that at a Dollar Tree and still want my money back.
>>25213121No Anon don-
>>25213075Approaching a supernatural phenomenon with a scientific/professional mindset, but not framed as sci-fi writing.
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>>25193363Not going to lie, The Girl Next Door royally pissed me offIf it wasn't based on true events I'd just think it's unrealistic edgy wankery written by some weirdo. But since it was based on true events you spend the whole time you read it thinking "some middle aged dude wrote and his jewish editor approved 300+ pages of voyeuristic abuse and murder of a real girl and made hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, off of it"That doesn't sit right with me. The "capturing human ugliness" is an excuse.
>>25214287What a dogshit ugly piece of shit painting to use as a book cover. It fits though I will give it that.
>>25193363It's a shame we'll never get the full version of Ladies Night
>>25215241My thoughts exactly. Artists associated with Ligotti are retarded. For example Jon Padgett is a shit reader of Ligotti's stories.
>>25215691I mean Ligotti's stories often have themes of human ugliness.
>>25215241Looks like it should be a Korn album.
What's the best Evenson collection?
>>25215691>>25216560Most of the Ligotti stories I've read so far make me think of a small, dank, dark attic in a very old wood&brick building filled w/ old, useless antiquitarian garbage. A very Salem witch trials coupled w/ the dark orange orb of the Sun setting on October 31st kind of vibes. Everything orange, brown, brick and rundown, BUT w/out the wit or even the character development of Lovecraft. HLP somehow makes me feel smth about his characters whereas Ligotti's characters are very one-note and often only really feature in one act sort of ways if that makes any sense. Like Lovecraft just feels so natural while Ligotti feels forced. A lot of Ligotti's stories I almost feel are the product of just starting by jutting shit down on the paper and figuring out the plot based on the primary piece of exposition he happened to have pulled out of his ass first. He seems a bit hacky.
>>25216737Ligotti is painfully overwrought and often just embarrassing. I really need to stick everything I own of his into one of those free little libraries because it's so awful.
Horror reads of the last 6 months or so:Loved it:>The Reverie by Peter Fehervari>The Terror by Dan Simmons>Rim of the Morning by William SloaneMeh>The Fisherman by John Langan>The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron>The House in the High Wood by Jeffrey Barlough>The Silence of Ghosts by Jonathan AycliffeInto the Trash It Goes>Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley>Castle of Blood by C. L. WernerWhat should I read next?
>>25216560>>25216737To me Ligotti is romantic in his darkness. He is post-modern in his form but still very old fashioned in his aesthetics. Am I wrong? >while Ligotti feels forcedLigotti wears artifice on his sleeve. He is coming from Symbolist tradition.
>>25216742Have you tried Brian Evenson yet?
>>25216668I'd say both A Collapse of Horses, and Song for the Unraveling of the World are pretty great. Song also has a decent amount of sci-fi horror stories mixed in, if you like that go for that one.
>>25217606Yes>>25218518Those are the two I've read
>>25218520What'd you think of them?
>>25201490>>25201542Yeah unfortunately some of his endings leave something to be desired. However, Island's last sentence was phenomenal imoI also thought In the Dark wrapped up nicely
Bump in the night!
>>25214296Who?
Any Ramsey Campbell fans here? Which of his works have you read, and what'd you think of them?I'm currently reading Alone With the Horrors. On one hand, his prose can be very hard to get through, and I can only read about one short story a day, but on the other hand, while the stories vary in how much I like them, the ones that work for me are fantastic.
I saw Thomas Ligotti at a grocery store in the town by the northern border yesterday. I told him how MALIGNANTLY USELESS it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen potato-mashers in his hands without paying.The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be a mutant embodying the contorted logic of a paradox and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.When she took one of the mashers and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any cosmophobic infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each masher and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by complaining about the ice breaking up on the river really loudly.
>>25220521Currently reading his novel The Hungry Moon and liking it.
>>25183216>The books on ABB are largely FROM audible you dumb little shit>>25183216with all due respect i took this as implied in his original post
>>25220521He's good. Was one of the first Lovecraftian writers who realized the genre has to mature and brought in more experimental writing.
>>25220521The Voice of the Beach is probably one of the best Lovecraftian stories I have ever read. Honestly better then a lot of Lovecraftian stories.
>>25222000>>25222827I liked The Man In The Underpass (I think it was called that). Maybe I'll read The Voice From the Beach sometime soon. I should probably knock off a couple Ligotti stories today btw. I wanna get Songs/Grimscribe over with.
Worth reading?
>>25223569Never read his stuff yet. All I know is that it's an exorcism novel that came out before The Exorcist by Blatty.
>>25223569I thought it was pretty good, BUT:a) The Exorcist borrows heavily from this novel(la), and expands on it, making it an (in my opinion) fuller and better novel than The Case Against Satan.b) Ray Russell's collection, Haunted Castles, is phenomenal and I would definitely recommend that over The Case Against Satan if you had to choose one.That being said, I still think it's a good story that's worth reading, and it's cool to see how The Exorcist was influenced by this book. And the cover art is sick. (It's also pretty short so you're not losing much either way.)
>>25223569The author believed this happened for real so read at your own risk.
>>25224734So did William Peter Blatty with the Exorcist. Dude was a hardcore Catholic.
Is it worth the $45 CAD price tag?
>>25226070I'm almost done with this collection, and I'd say it's definitely worth reading it. Most of them are modern urban ghost/horror stories, and a decent amount of them are fantastic. He does have a writing style that makes you get through slower than average, so take that into account.(45 CAD is a lot though, you can try to get it second hand maybe?)
>>25226070Yeah I would say to maybe get an ebook version rather then pay 45 for it.
any book which will convince me to stop giving a shit about women? any horror against love and relationships?
>>25227362Yikes man
>>25227362Go take a walk man, enjoy nature.
>>25227302I mean, I did. But just for reference on my phone. Need that physical copy for when shit hits the fan and the PDF + Epub on the lead-lined 24TB HDD buried deep in my backyard.>Pictured: Exhibit B
>>25227392>>25227832am i on plebbit?
>Going OUTSIDE? HOLY PLEBBIT!Just look at yourself man, Jesus Christ..
>>25227362www.incel.is
>>25228137I asked for horror recommendations not your self help plebbit remarks about life improvement >>25228141I am looking for fiction
I read Widows Point recently. Pretty good despite a hole here or there in the plot.
>>25182915The Road by Cormac McCarthy deserves to be in 21st century
>>25228201>The RoadIs that even horror?
>>25228206I would say so.
Reading the contents of this Clark Ashton Smith book I bought and the titles of the stories are certainly encouraging. I've already read Empire of the Necromancers and it was fuckin awesome.
The 1400s are green. The 1500s are red. The 1600s are orange or pink. The 1700s are brown. Anyone else relate?
>>25228377Take your meds.
Just finished The Dark Eidolon. Wow, I really liked that. CAS has hit it outta the park w/ every one of his stories I've perused so far. I'm impressed. Still not so much a fan of the poetry & screenplays however.
