Negative Space editionNotable 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?Previous:>>25376219General archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=hfg"
>>25406629Our rec chart
At some point you realize that all you need is Stephen King and Clive Barker.
So I read a bit of a deep cut.Anyone here familiar with EverymanHYBRID ? It was a YouTube ARG from the early 2010’s. It was somewhat popular on /x/ back then. One of the creators of it, Jeffrey Koval, also self-publishes books on Amazon. I read his debut novel Code Junkie. It was decent. It’s about a guy who loses his programming job and his life just spins out of control. He also begins having weird dreams and losing time/memory.SPOILERS: It turns out the entire town he lives in is run by a cult his grandfather (One he didn’t know he had) that worships some Lovecraftian-type god. The town has been secretly controlling his life so he could be ready for the moment where has to perform a sacrifice to appease the god the cult worships.
>>25406635I like those guys but there is definitely more to horror than just them.
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>>25406659Lets just keep the horror talk here.
Bleh!
>>25406651Btw, if you want to watch EverymanHYBRID:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRzewv58EEtzK65PO5HTAsq8GYGc1gfpN
Would y’all consider Franz Kafka to be a horror writer?
>>25406701Yes
>>25406629Negative Space was so good, can’t wait for his next book!
>>25406675Ah!
>>25406635>be me>revisit Barker>le gay porn coming out storiesBit mid DESU senpai
>>25407052I still remember when he had a public tumblr, all he kept doing was reposting gay porn.
Currently reading Empire of the Vampire (Fantasy Horror.) It's decent fun.>>25406629>>25406708Negative Space was my last read. Ending was really sad. Would like to discuss the book.
I read Negative Space around 6 years ago and remember it being a pretty fun and easy read before the pace of the book speeds up by 300% and shits on itself in the last 50 pages or so
>>25407943Sure, what would like to talk about Negative Space?>>25408059I liked the ending. Yes, it does speed up everything, but I thought that part where it seems the narrators get a little bit of hope only for it to be crushed was really good writing and very devastating.I still think it’s the best horror book of the 2000’s so far.
>>25408194*2020’s
Just finished pic related. It's pretty graphic but it was a great read. Some people complained that one of the characters makes some dumb decisions, but that was the only gripe I've seen anyone have and while if I was in his shoes I'd have prioritizing getting the hell out of there over everything else, it didn't really stick out to me as an issue. Late 19th century women's convent in northern Italy mountains, in the winter, goes to hell. Atmosphere and setting are very well done, events that unfold are pretty crass, overall very bleak.
>>25408254>Same guy who wrote The HaarSo is this also considered a part of extreme horror genre?
>>25408789I haven't read his other works so I can't compare but yes, it gets pretty descriptive in some of the scenes and there is plenty of violence. I would say that it isn't to the point where that's what the book is all about though, so not just shock for shock value.
>>25406629Any good Space Horror? I read Blindsight by Peter Clines and thought it was meh. I also read Dead Space Martyr and it was just ok as well
>>25409252If you like schlock, Peter F Hamilton's the Reality Dysfunction is the opening to a three book series that's fun enough. Space zombies and existential dread, with some weirdly gratuitous sex scenes.
>>25409608Is there any space horror that takes it self seriously and isn’t schlocky?
>>25406629Tried to fart, but only shartedTrue horror
>>25406635When are they going to fucking make a single volume edition of all the Books of Blood?
>>25408254read the haar last year, it was fun even if i didnt love his writing the entire time. this looks exciting, i dont mind some dumb characters anyway. will be investigating...
I really love your standard cosmic horror stuff from Lovecraft and CAS, I love House on the Borderland, I love a lot of the ideas of Machen's (though not a huge fan of his writing except in The White People), I enjoy M.R. James though he can be a bit dull (really love stories like View From a Hill and the atmosphere in Whistle and I'll Come To You), I love Ligotti (especially Teattro Grottesco), I really like Aickman, and I've enjoyed what little I've read from Clive Barker as well as enjoying his films. I enjoy schlock but I've only really consumed it in movie form. Who should I read next?
>>25410935I don't want to spoil your entering frame of mind but it's almost like Evil Dead married The Nun.. I thought it was great. The atmosphere of the convent was great.
>>25411005Ramsey Campbell
>>25406675DONT DO THAT
When did you realise that Lovecraft only aped others like Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen?
>>25412359When I read Blackwood and Machen.
>>25411005>Who should I read next?Blackwood
What do you think the small people are supposed to represent?
>>25415003I honestly thought it was a metaphor for being completely infected by normie bourgeois American suburban life. You become a boring drone, a little person not much different from a wind-up toy.
Currently reading The Outsider by Stephen King.It’s actually pretty good so far, say what you will about him, dude knows how to write an engaging mystery that makes want to know more.
