Walpurgisnacht approaches! ed.OLD: >>25182568
>>25235167are we safe from bakker here?
>>25235178Yes, my child.
I've got my Google calendar to remind me of HP Lovecraft's birthday every year from now to eternity.
>>25235167The Walking Dead only got popular by a fluke and now it has inundated zombie media in horror:https://youtu.be/2UVJP_n7_DQ?si=L8kf5Mtab-1h9Qst
Any actual horror stuff? Don't have much experience beyond hp lovecraft
>>25235208Do you happen to know when his cat was born?
>>25235167God dammit I said don't make new until page 10...
>>25235232Lol rip bozo
>>25235232Sorry bro, but I wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to make a Walpurgisnacht edition. April 30 approaches!
>>25235213Read some <300 page Stephen King books. Carrie and Misery are really good and are literal high school-reading-core.
>>25235167Dammit baker, at least include the body next time"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 more Discuss 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"
Sorry, but the M. R. James stories aren't scary enough.
>>25235309No that's faggy & gay.
>>25235314It was a different time.
>>25235167>>25235213This can help you out!
What kind of vibes Robert Aickman's fiction have?
>>25235212Not /co/ but The Walking Dead is unironically one of the few modern comics that actually utilised the format of comicbooks, which I think is why it got so successful. It's painfully jarring just how bad the TV show was compared to the comics. What's strange is that Kirkman was the creative figurehead behind both the comic and show, which makes me think he's another instance of a creator not understanding what makes his own work as great as it was.
>>25235167Been reading Thomas Ligotti's Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe recently and truth be told 8 stories in and I've only enjoyed 2 so far (Les Fleurs and The Nyctalops Trilogy). I'm guessing he's a writer who gets better as it goes on.
>>25235820Songs is his first collection, and you can see that he's slowly getting his own voice and style as the stories progress.
>>25235167What's the most unsettling story you've read? The one that will stick with you for the rest of your life and came to mind first when you read this question.
>>25235854I don't know if it's the most unsettling one I've read, but the one that came to mind immediately was "The Babysitter" by Robert Coover. Not really a horror story, but pretty unsettling and uncomfortable at times.
>>25235854"Linda and Daniel and Spike" by Thomas M. Disch.
What are your favorite stories from Clive Barker's 'Books of Blood'?
so how are the tartarus press authors like mark samuels, reggie oliver,mark valentine, etc?
>>25235961In the Hills, the Cities for the sheer novely of its conceptYattering and Jack for being fun and well-written despite not really being horrorHell's Event as a personal fav cause I love competition-related stories
Standing in the room was the horrible silhouette of an extremely scary being.
>>25236007A black man??
>>25235854The Croglin Grange Vampire
>>25235961"Dread", "The Yattering and Jack", and "The Forbidden".
>>25235961Midnight Meat Train, Pig Blood Blues, Rawhead Rex
>>25235992I'm planning on reading Mark Samuels and Reggie Olver, but I haven't yet. I have heard a lot of good things about them, if that counts for anything.
>>25236007The room was large and empty. Dare I say, liminal.
>>25235178Ligotti is the Bakker of /hfg/.
>>25235854I think The Colour Out of Space takes it
Which Ligotti stories set in woods?
Does Ligotti have a non-con transformation fetish?Been reading Songs of a Dead Dreamer and getting genuinely hard at some of the stories
>>25237663Sounds more like a you thing
>>25235961i read only the first three, i would say yattering and hills from book 1, dread and rue morgue from book 2, rawhead and shroud from book 3. In general i liked all the stories apart maybe skin of the fathers and human remains
>>25235213i started reading this year and anthologies like the books of blood and night shift/skeleton crew felt like a good place to begin
Is Ligotti virgin? Do goth women like Ligotti?
>>25235167How is it?
>>25238359They haven't discovered him yet
Bump in the night
>>25238359>Caring what women think or likeYour first mistake.
>>25240788
>>25240941Whatever (You) say! More pussy for me!
They blame my newfound crystal skull for all the eerie and even horrible things happening in town. Even murder, bad juju. But it’s not capable of anything except being so beautiful
So this afternoon I picked Alone With the Horrors back up right. I had already read a few stories here and there, popcorn style. I thought the very first story, THE TOWER FROM YUGGOTH, sounded promising but I didn't have the time to read a longer story (not in one go anyway) until this afternoon. Absolutely loved it. Incredibly reminiscent of Lovecraft. It acts very much like a sequel to The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, & The Shadow Out of Time; oh and The Call of Ktulu ofc. It didn't feel overly derivative at all however since Ramsey incl. adding quite a few of his own unique and relatively more modern ideas into the mix. It was lighter on the abstract themes that colour a lot of the other Ramsey stories I've read but there were still some vague lines here or there. Overall I think I like this one in the collection best so far, maybe w/ the exception of The Man in the Underpass but I would need to re-read that to re-gauge how much I like it since it was the first RC story I ever read and that was a year or two ago. Never read another story of his until about a week ago. I will say one more thing: he sure beats Ligotti, but maybe not Clark Ashton Smith.
Just read Necromancy in Na'at by CAS. Decent, definitely decent. Not enough skellies tho tb h.
>>25235167Is Simon Strantzas good?
Who are the essential modern weird fiction/horror writers? Ligotti? Byron? Langen? I also like Jeffrey Ford. Who else?
>>25235167Its so strange, every year by Walpurgisnacht I have the want to read folk horror, like deep woodlands and ancient sites folk horror. Will probably pick this up in a few days
>>25242392>folk horrormeme buzzworddidn't exist before the 2010s. retroactively pretending stories written in the edwardian era as "folk horror" is disingenuous
>>25235178No, that's the newest horror story... and you're living in it.
>>25235167>HorrorHow can books be scary? They're just letters on paper.
>>25235854The one that comes to my mind is "Frankenstein". Unsettling is a good word for it, moreso than horrifying; it is one of the few novels that I find myself thinking about years after the fact for the subject matter and things it has to say, and one of the even fewer horror novels that I have revisited multiple times.If we are talking about the more recent, more of what the modern sensibilities might call horrific, I think "The Lesser Dead" and "Let the Right One In" most fit the bill from what I have read. Both are very disturbing novels that have some truly repugnant characters and events within, and there is no happiness in how either end. "The Lesser Dead" is a little more stomachable, more appealing, "Let the Right One In" surprised me at how much anger it aroused in me, at the injustice of the story. Maybe that makes it better art, but I am very hesitant to recommend it, and only to certain people.
>>25242606The illustrations in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark jumpscared me as a kid...
>>25242762I remember the one with the lady who thinks a spider egg is just a pimple on her face.
I want a novel which will make me viscerally feel like I'm being haunted by a ghostSomething like Dream of a Manikin
>>25243338Ligotti is so obviously American it hurts. It's>mannequin Lovecraft was American but he had enough pride in his Anglo heritage to use the British spellings of words. Then again I'm Canadian and we use a unique blend of American & British spellings. Tho' I think Lovecraft probably considered himself to be more of a New Englander than an American.
Just read another CAS story, THE WEAVER IN THE VAULT. Maybe a bit anticlimactic HOWEVER it has a great sense of doom.
>>25243338more of a novella but the beckoning fair one
Happy Walpurgisnacht ! https://youtu.be/WaLbG3I7Ygo
>>25243572>Then again I'm Canadian and we use a unique blend of American & British spellings.Just like John Clute, who was born and raised in Canada but then migrated to USA and then to England.
