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Just finished pic rel. I liked it. What should I read next?

>> No.19093750

her other stuff
m.r. james short stories

>> No.19093782

>>19093737
How is Shirley Jackson in general? I know lit doesn’t like women but she seems like a good writer to check out around Halloween.

>> No.19093793

>>19093782
she's good

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>>19093737
Check out Jackson's book We Have Always Lived in the Castle, which I would argue is a better book than The Haunting of Hill House. There's also Hell House by Matheson, which is a bit more lurid than The Haunting of Hill House and is also a haunted house story.

>>19093782
She's fine. And we like female authors if they're good, but a lot of them aren't.

>> No.19094266

>>19093928
Thanks anon. I ordered both works plus some other stories. I'm also looking forward to watching the movie adaptations

>> No.19094429

Call of the Crocodile

>> No.19094446

>>19094429
I hope someone murders you

>> No.19094455

>>19094446
Why? It’s literally one of the better modern horror novels.

>> No.19094515

>>19093782
She's both one of my favourite female authors and one of my favourite ever authors. I knows it's wrong to say but I actually like her stuff a lot more than Flannery O'Connors.

>> No.19094812

>>19093928
Can I hijack this thread to discuss we have always lived in the castle? No one came by mine :(

>> No.19094846

>>19094812
Ya go ahead. Just don't spoil jt because i havent read it yet

>> No.19095100

We have always lived in the castle questions:

Why doesn’t marricat mention her cat in the first paragraph when she is listing all the things she likes? Was she the cat all along? Was she even real or was what uncle julian said about her dying in the orphanage a hint at what actually happened? Why does she know the names of the plants when she said she doesn’t but constance does? Why did constance help her the night of the happening, washing the bowl and waiting to call doctor?

>> No.19095235

Also, just to have contributed something about haunting, i really like it and Im literally elanor (and mary too)

I would say both it and castle are equally good, and compliment each other well in ying yang ways. Both acknowledge their own repetition at a point and leave enough ambiguity about the past to warrant coming back

>> No.19095732

>>19095235
Yeah i'm Eleanor too. Really bothered me to read it because of that. I really felt her pain as if it were me

>> No.19095741

>>19094455
Crab in the bucket mentality. Call of the Crocodile is a great book which makes the psudes seethe here because they can't stand that an animefag actually finished his book and this board loves it.

>> No.19097451

>>19093737
You oughta dive into Poe. Go for the source material.

>> No.19097500

>>19095741
Why lie? Anons post excerpts here all the time and thanks to the meme it's an easy book to pirate. It's clear the editing is minimal and the prose suficient at best; literally nothing that I've seen has made me want to read the book.
Horror is alive and kicking, OP, there's no need to resort to /lit/ memes to get your fill.

>> No.19098504

>>19097500
It's /lit/s equivalent to sneed. I'm impressed gardner was able to use ironic shitposting as viral marketing

>> No.19099619

Bump

>> No.19099740

Call of the Crocodile