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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
