/lit/ - Literature

Hi /lit/.
I keep finding books online that seem to be typed on a word or they have a terrible font/format.

What are those books and why can't I find easily actual scans?

To those of you who have read stuff from Poe and Lovecraft - what stories did you find were best at either building up an unsettling atmosphere through description or doing a great job of showing fear that was directed at a particular thing or better yet, a person?

Can we have a discussion about Cosmic Horror?

What are some good entries to the genre NOT by Lovecraft?

Though Lovecraft recommendations are fine too, as not everyone has read everything.

Last time I made one of these threads yielded decent discussion, but the only recommendation was John Dies at the End, and that was fucking terrible.

What are your favorite stories?

What do you like or dislike about the genre?

"At this moment, I am eudaimonic. Not because of any elder god's beneficence. But because, I am rarefied by my own mythos."

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whoever did this is much better at Photoshop than I am

>Funniest
The Good Soldier Svejk
>Saddest
Johnny Got His Gun
>Scariest
whatever barock OSAMA's plans on taking over the world are, the ardency of hole or something
>Lifest
Bright Lights, Big City
>SMARTST
GEB: An Eternal Golden Braid

wanna read Ton Beau de Marot tho

/lit/, i'm going to write something and publish it on Kindle to be downloaded for free.

Which of these undeveloped ideas sounds good?

1)
>Three boys visit the forest
>Not seen again
>Their journals are found and collected years later
>The story is made up of journal extracts, not in order to focus on the emotion of the experience
>One boy runs off
>One is killed by the other two
>The other one stays at the campsite and is found dead with the journals

Any twists you can suggest?

2)
>A whole short story as a suicide note
>Reveals why, how, who, when
>Either they are trapped in a cave and don't know how to get out,
>Paranoid they will die anyway
>have just committed murder
>or are a regular husband with a daughter and just before the end the narrative shifts to third person and the daughter enters the room to see her father shoot himself

3)
>A boy living with his family
>Describes his daily life
>Goes on and on
>Police officer knocks on the door
>boy invites him in and talks to him
>Police officer is just checking on him (why? we don't know)
>Later Police come to house and take the boy away, boy struggles
>His family are dead and he had just set up a series of tape recordings of their voices to play. He eats, sleeps, and does everything else with these giant mannequins.

Would you read them?

this one's decent