What are we reading for Spooktober, /lit/?
>>25581463>you HAVE to read horror lit in October>you HAVE to watch horror movies in October>you HAVE to listen to Monster Mash 24/7 in October (which I don't necessarily have a problem with)This all feels very limiting and strict and militant.
>>25581471No one is forcing you to do anything you don't want.It's just a fun tradition to have.
>>25581471You WILL be spooked this October, I demand it
Fwankenstein and den pwobabwy Somefing Wicked Dis Way Comes
>>25581485>the sucksex vampire
>>25581506>FwankensteinPeople keep posting about it again and again. What’s up with that? :)
>>25581660It's the spooky season. Why not start with the best? That's what I think is going on anyway.
>>25581471You have to watch horror anime too
>>25581463I recently finished Russian 19th Century Gothic Tales, I'm currently reading An Autumn Story by Tommaso Landolfi, and after that I've got The Phantom of the Opera on deck.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.How is her prose so good, what the fuck? I didn't expect to be dazzled by excellence upon picking up what I thought would be a mediocre TikTok-grade novel. The rhythm, the language, she could be describing a grocery trip for 300 pages and I would still read.Are the rest of her novels just as well written? Which one should I start next?
>>25583374Currently reading a collection of her short stories. She really deserves a higher reputation among mystery authors
>>25581506>Somefing Wicked Dis Way ComesPretty nostalgic and comfy so far.
M.R. James Ghost stories - trying something new this year, got a bit tired of reading Lovecraft desu.
Are there any actually terrifying horror books and stories? Not in modern media meme cultural monster way, but actually horrifying, dreadful and dark.
Currently reading Dracula for the first time. Although I did try reading it about 20 years ago, but my reading comprehension was dogshit and I didn't even get to Harker's first night at the castle. I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying it this time around.
Faust
>>25581463Started reading Carrie yesterday. It's alright and King's trademark style is there, but it feels rather rudimentary at some points.
>>25585249my diary desu
>>25585310I haven’t read a single book by King, but I want to pick this one.
>>25585336My favourite King is The Dead Zone, but I admit I'm in the minority on this one. Horror doesn't really affect me, so I prefer his more psychological books rather than the "scary" ones.
>>25585362I always thought he does rather thrillers than horrors, and I guess I’m with you on that.
>>25581463Mainlander's Philosophy of Redemption
>>25585336The Pet Sematary gets creepy as fuck.
>>25581463I think I'll reread Reverend Insanity
>>25581463Not spooky at all but I've recently gotten into reading the White Rat books. I'm on Paladins Grace right now but I really enjoyed Swordheart.T. Kingfisher definitely has a bit of a problem with incessantly writing her self inserts into books but the romance is fluffy, it has a managable amount of sex for Romantasy, and the setting at least has some level of worldbuilding.
>>25581665Tbh I enjoy bits and pieces of the Frankenstein novel but I struggle to appreciate the full package... It gets even more annoying if I try to digest the different adaptations which will inevitably get some things right but also completely shit the bed with several other themes.
>>25586053What makes you not appreciate the full package?
>>25586063I'll be clear that it's largely my own thought on it, I know it's almost certainly wrong and wasn't intended but it's a sticking point for me.Like for me I don't appreciate just how quickly the monster turns to violence. I like when the monster is depicted as like a completely morally neutral being that is slowly ushered into killing Frankenstein's family as a way to get a reaction instead of how he just kills the blind man and his family right away.I also do feel there's a few too many unnecessary segments of flattering romantic era writing. Too much talk of Frankenstein's travels and how lovely the mountains are and the landscape and architecture and everything... It exhausts me.
>>25586078He didn't kill the De Lacey family, he only burned their cottage after they abandoned it once he revealed himself to them. I do agree with you on your last point. The exhaustive description of his travels in the final act really staggered the pace. I didn't mind it that much early in the novel.
>>25581463I WAS going to read A Night in the Lonesome October (one chapter for each day of the month) but then I found out that the narrative is kinda gay and cringe and very redditlike and have thus done no such thing. Most Halloween-adjacent thing I've done all month is watch Return of the Living Dead last night. I was going to watch "In Search of Darkness" until I discovered that the fucking thing is like four plus hours long.I've got some William Hope Hodgson collection books that should have been here today but its "Faggot Cocksucker I'm Sorry My Ancestors Slaughtered Your Worthless Asses Mister Indian Day" today. Guess I'll just watch Lair of the White Worm for the umpteenth time.
>>25581471Bitch
>>25585249No. Unless you're some kind of autistic wonderkind whose every book reading is a vivid hallucination that causes you to piss your fucking pants in terror then no book will ever be enough to truly terrify you. Too much of a disconnect.Why do people keep asking this question?
>>25586114Idk man as a kid I read some pretty scary short stories. In one of them the scary entity were deers. Fucking grass munching doe eyed deers.
>>25586138Uhhhh... based. What was the deer story called?
>>25586141Where the deer are- Caroline b cooney
>>25586114I DISAGREETHE MAJORITY OF THE POSTS ON THIS WEBSITE ARE SCARY TO AND BEYOND THE EXTEND THAT YOU PORTRAYIT'S MAINLY SCARY HOW BAD THEY ARE
>>25581463Started with Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann.Takes an old German trickster hero and sets him in a background of war and occultism. Not really a horror book outright but has some spooky stuff and dark magic and all that good stuff. I’d have to imagine it’s a fun book for history buffs too considering the jumping around to different figures of the time.
>>25587097Turn off the caps lock, cocksucker.
>>25586109Hoe.
>>25583374Sounds pretty cool from the wiki description. Is it spoopy?
>>25587122YÓÚ ARE A TURNOFFYOU GOT SO TURNED ON THAT YOU GOT TURNED OFFWRITE AND TYPE IN THE STYLE THIS SCRIPT WAS INTENDED TO BE WRITTEN AND TYPED INOTHER SCRIPTUAL BEHAVIOURS CONCERNING THIS SCRIPT I FIND SCRIPTUALLY COWARDLY AND NOT DOING THE TRADITION ITS DUE HONOUR AND DILIGENCEWERE I TO BE RAISED IN A DIFFERENT SCRIPTUAL TRADITION, I WOULD ALSO HAVE TO BE DILIGENT IN HONOURING THE SCRIPT, THE TOOL OF THE WORKMAN, THE MEANS BY WHICH I COMMUNICATE MY COMMUNICATIONS TO THE WORLD, AND THOSE WITHIN ITI can also type like this but then we'd regress to bickering, slanter, banter, gossip, argueing, and bullshittery quite quickly. This scriptual style can be described as 'Who is on the top of the money hill when it comes to being meek in how he or she scripts? Who will be counted as the wolf among the meek, the first to be shepherded by the Good Shepherd for having proven his relentless meekness?'YOU HAVE BEEN FOUND OUTI SUGGEST YOU COOK YOURSELF A MEAL WITH CHICKEN TODAY, SO YOU ARE REMINDED OF WHAT A COCK ACTUALLY IS
>>25587197You are neither a genius and you can't even get it up, let alone cum, lol. Stupid fucking SPIC COCKSUCKER.
>>25587197*monkey hill
>>25587199OOPS! YOU MISGUESSED MY HERITAGE, AND HAVE UPSET THE SPANISH BY DOING SOGOOD LUCK WHEN THE INQUISITION COMES AROUND
>>25587197CUMTRANNY MELTY! LOL!!
>>25587205FINALLY HE UNDERSTANDS HOW THIS SCRIPT WORKSGOOD JOB ON THAT ONE, LETS CALL IT A MICRO-RESULT, BUT YOU'VE MORE PRACTICE TO DO UNTIL YOU ARE FLUENTLY SUBTLE AT IT, AND THEN MANY MORE STEPS UNTIL YOU BECOME RHETORICAL
Great, the basque mestizo mutt of Catalonia retard lolcow of /lit/ is back... YAAAAY...
>>25587212LETS CONSIDER WORK TO BE WORK AND LETS KEEP IT PROFESSIONAL
>>25587218Suck my cock, annoying brownoid spic bastard. Go away.
>>25587221I CIRCUMCISE THE SAUSAGES THAT I CONSUMEIF YOU ARE NOT UP TO THE CHALLENGE OF YOUR PENILE FORESKIN BEING REMOVED PERMANENTLY I SUGGEST YOU REFRAIN FROM HOMOSEXUAL COMMANDSAND ÍF YOU ARE UP TO THAT CHALLENGETHEN I'D STILL NOT SUCK YOUR PENISBUT WHAT I WÍLL DOIS TO REMEMBER THAT YOU COMMANDED ME TO SUCK YOUR COCK
>>25581463Currently reading 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' by Olga Tokarczuk. Will also read some stories from Flannery O'Connor's collection and from Daphne Du Maurier's 'Don't Look Now and Other Stories'. My bf got me a graphic novel of Dracula so I might reread that alongside it. >>25585247Are there any particular Lovecraft stories you'd recommend for spooky season anon? I loved 'The Colour Out of Space' and thought 'The Call of Cthulu' was okay
>>25587458YOU WILL HAVE TO WRITE THE 'LOVECRAFT' STORY THAT YOU WOULD WANT TO READ, YOURSELFTHE REST JUST WON'T CUT IT FOR YOU
>>25581493>...UNLESS YOU TYPE 'I HONOUR MY PARENTS' AND SEND THAT TO 10 OF YOUR FRIENDS SO THAT THEY DO THE SAME
>>25587156Depends on your definition of spoopy. It's certainly very gloomy and gothic.
Masque Of The Red Death, saw it first as a Vincent Price movie, became my favourite work by Edgar Allan Poe. Got some other stuff to finish up first though
>>25587212backstory on this?
>>25581463I dunno what I have in my library that's spooky and don't really want to read Stephen King.
>>25581471THEY FUCKED HIS ASSThey all fucked Ohhh-P's assTHEY FUCKED HIS ASSIt was a graveyard smashTHEY FUCKED HIS ASSThey did him in the assTHEY FUCKED HIS ASSAHH OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>25585310Update: finished it yesterday. Pretty good, it's obvious why it became so influential, but you can tell it's King's very early work and his style is still rough at places.
>>25581471>being so much of a pussy that other people talking about horror makes you personally offended
>>25588205Any Poe at the library? He’s pretty Halloweeny.
>>25581463I read Harvest Home. Fun to see how pervasive the influence of the Golden Bough was on even 70s horror lit, though having read it really did make most of the twists very obvious. Still a nice read though, three quarters of the book is mostly pure autumnal comfort, and the 70s gender war yonic fears were funny.>>25586107I enjoyed Lonesome October just fine, but yes, it is part of that pre-internet nerd culture that has been driven into the ground. It was a big influence on Cultist Simulator though, so I give it a pass.
