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What are some good horror books for /lit/-folk? Obscurer titles that really get you to your core? And the first person to mention Lovecraft gets a kiss.

>> No.13961004
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Le Fanu’s Carmilla?

>> No.13961019

not necessarily the horror you are looking for maybe, but The Room disturbed me greatly

>> No.13961347

>>13961019
damn, the rrom was just disturbing. especially the suicide part...

>> No.13961505

>>13960981

THE TEMPLE from Lovecraft is genuinly spooky

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>> No.13962970

Bump

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Just got this out of the library this morning. Will start reading it on the commute home from work tonight

>> No.13963124

King in Yellow is the best. There's just something about it I can't even describe.

>> No.13963203

https://warlockasyluminternationalnews.com/2017/02/24/its-official-lovecraft-used-the-term-cthulhu-as-a-code-word-for-thelema/

>> No.13963252

>>13961505
*smooch*

>> No.13963289

>>13960981
(Almost) anything by Edgar Allan Poe.
I never thougt a burger could write THIS good...

>> No.13963511

>>13960981
The Willows and many other things from Lovecraft's influencers like Lord Dunsany.

>> No.13963521

>>13961512
Seems like a good list here.

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>>13960981
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski

>> No.13963739

>>13963252
>two neet neckbeards kissing
lmao get some pussy fuckers

>> No.13963870

I find Thomas Ligotti legit spooky even if his stuff reads less like horror and more like Thomas Bernhard trying to tell you some weird dream he had