Not Long! edition.Old >>25517283
new Stephen Graham Jones came in at my library, sequel to The Only Good Indians
>>25589939based red man
>There's no such as literary horr-
The first time I ever read Laird Barron's "The Croning" was the only time a segment of a horror book ever "unsettled" or ever managed to actually, sincerely mildly "spook" me. I remember it because I relish the feeling. There's a part of the book where the main character and his family members swap ghost stories and I either must have been in the mood to FEEL spooked or maybe I was just cold at the time or something, I dunno. I remember it making my spine tingle with a lil' bit of realistic dread and its novel to me because it remains the only time that has ever happened, ever. The rest of the story isn't even particularly spooky, just that short segment and I was never able to elicit the same response ever again neither upon rereading the story years later, nor with any other work of horror fiction since.Dunno nigguh, it's really weird.
>>25590329Horror stories used to scare me...
Just bought the Dark Descent compilation
ÏA! ÏA! SHUB-NIGGURATH!
>>25588962I didn't expect it to have gay smut in just the third short story and now I feel conned. The second story was awful - about a quadroon native mom giving in to her white racist husband and psycho mother in law just so she can live in a gated community with a bmw and Coach bags. and now the third story is about a white dude who is seemingly a gay serial killer rapist at the beach and he collects his victims' teeth and he has a navajo tooth or something in his collection. the prose in the second and third stories feels grade school level, like i'm reading a book for 6th grade level understanding. I haven't read fiction published in the last decade but didn't know I had to drop expectations THIS low for a 2025 release. You can find Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology new in any bookstore near you.
AI recommended this piece of shit to readIt was awful, absolutely pretentious writing Of course it won awards because the author is a woman, POC, and bi-sexual, and the book features cringe lesbian bullshit
>>25591513In rape blowjobs why don't they just bite the dick off? like in the movie Fresh
>>25591174>>25590329First reading of the cask of amontillado scared the hell out of me. That guy was such a psycho. Why did he wall him up? Also the road is scary but too perverse. Almost seems like mccarthy got off on it, especially the roasted baby stuff. >>25589610Any good horror books set in autumn or on Halloween day / night? Or short stories?
>>25591536Conversations in a Dead Language by Ligotti is set on Halloween night
>>25591513It's evidently popular enough that a sequel was recently released.
Don't think I'm gonna be reading 'Salem's Lot after all. Fuck vampires, fuck vampire stories, and fuck anything where there's bleeding. Except Let the Right One In, that's cool.
Can someone who has read Butcher of Nazareth give a synopsis better than the vague abstract official synopsis of what it is about?
>>25591550>Let the Right One In
>>25591582That's a castrated boy btw
>>25591587yea what was the point of that? I remember the movie having homoerotic themes because the dad was clearly gay with his "friend" coming over all the time. not sure if the book gets into it.
>>25591588>the dadYou mean Hakan?
>>25591631nope. the main boys dad
>>25591636I vaguely remember that. I read that book literally half my life ago. I read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo around the same time, which it & its sequel(s) I would defo characterize as horror-adjacent (like Silence of the Lambs for example). The second book in the trilogy was way different from the first book which is really more of a mystery while The Girl Who Played With Fire was more like espionage and a lot of fucked up shit happens. I never finished the third book for some reason.
I finished Vampire Hunter D book 5: The Stuff of Dreams. I think this is the best book yet. It continues being a unique setting that I have come to like for the series where you have a guy ride a wooden elevator down to a basement where a guy with a photon-laser rifle is waiting or dragon drawn wagons. But that aside since all books have that kind of stuff the story was my favorite. It's all about strange dreams people are sharing and a girl who bitten by a vampire has been asleep and age 17 for 30 years. Interesting premise plus the dreams add colorful scenes of people in a giant ballroom dance.
>>25589939I thought Buffalo Hunter Hunter sucked. It was going okay for most the book but the ending completely ruined it. Are the rest of his books better?
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>>25591549That's more frightening than the stories themselves.
Done with Black River Orchard and it's +600 pages of pure dog shit from start to finish. I honestly don't understand how it got 4 stars on goodreads, it's baffling.
>>25592232The proletarian masses (the ones who are literate, anyways) just have bad taste.
>>25591513>white dude who is seemingly a gay serial killer rapistSounds like it reflects reality pretty well.
read Aickman's Meeting Mr. Millar for the first time in quite a few years and it remains as baffling as I remembered
Almost done my current book. Should be starting A Short Stay in Hell today :]
>>25594210Wouldn't really call that one horror. It can give you a sense of existential dread but it doesn't really have any concepts you haven't already thought about before if you've spent any time reading philosophy and/or metaphysics
>>25594221Shhhhhhhhh.
>>25592098If you didn't like the ending to BHH, you will hate Only Good Indians. His shorter stuff is a little better
Is the Dawn of the dead novelization any good? I didn't even know it existed until I picked up a copy at some Dutch book store with outrageous prices
>>25592950Imagine reading +600 pages of pure dog shit from start to finish.
Is The Masque of the Red Death any good? I've generally found the majority of Poe's stuff lame but the last time I was ever actually forced to read him was probably about seventeen/eighteen years ago during some dumb junior/senior literature class. Is all his stuff basically just as uninteresting as The Raven and The Telltale Heart are?
>>25594842>Thinking "The Tell-Tale Heart" is uninterestingI hate to say it anon, but you got filtered pretty hard
>>25594554never knew this existed. people online say it's good. is the copy in english? I'm seeing it go for a lot of money on ebay.
>>25594940>t.performative maleIt's not an interesting story.
>>25595043oh you're actually just retardedfind another board
>>25595436Sorry you thought the shit you were force fed in school was the end-all-be-all pinnacle of literary fiction, you dumb, cocksucking FAGGOT. Cultivate some taste, mongoloid.
