/lit/ - Literature

I've had a guardian complex since I was in high school. Easy to repress, but it definitely slips out from time to time.
Whenever a girl shows even slight friendliness to me I immediately feel extremely protective of her. It has gotten me trouble before, in various ways. Wouldn't reccomend it, it's not a patrician complex.
Literature for your specific feel: The Road.

Alright, I just made a throwaway email yesterday myself, so I'll take the bait. I'll report back to you guys.

I'm hoping whatever OP sends me is at least funny

It seems like horror authors usually identify what they think is horrific about life in the time-period they live in and incorporate that into their works.

For Lovecraft, in the era of unexplored oceans and territories and religious superstition, he poised a noumenal realm of malevolent gods whose earthy representatives still lurk terrifying but usually hidden from sight.

For Koji Suzuki who wrote The Ring, it was early tech (videotapes etc) and the notion of technology having the potential to be cursed as well as beneficial to one's indolent lifestyle.

For Ligotti, it is advanced capitalism and the modern corporate workplace, wherein mysterious managers lurk behind frosted glass ready to cull another batch of employees and co-workers who use any means possible of attaining a more superior rank.

Now what is horrific about contemporary life that horror writers can use for material?

I think it is surely the Internet and its capacity to know everything about you, to reduce your existence to a form which you do not feel resembles you, or even imitate you in a way that is beyond your control, it is also multiculturalism and the waves of subhuman shitskin scum destroying urban environments from Sweden to Austin, Texas (Lovecraft touched on this theme in a roundabout manner), it is an advanced culture which fears no war or invading force who, despite the lack of immediate threats, has pursued ideologies promoting degeneracy and the aggressive pursuit of Fun (TM) rather than more noble ideals, it is the implosion of the traditional family and the reduction of each citizen (read: consumer) to an isolated, demoralized hoarder of solitary pleasures.