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/horror/ general.

Come in here to talk about classic or modern horror, spooky podcasts and amateur spooky stories.

>> No.17592301

>>17592262
Is Grimscribe's puppets good? I tried The Red brain anthology but every story there bored me.

>> No.17592320

>>17592301
Aside from Conspiracy, which I haven't read, I can genuinely recommend anything that Ligotti's written without hesitation. He's the premier horror author of our generation, and needs to be read by everyone with even the smallest amount of interest in the genre.

>> No.17592370

>>17592320
I have already read everything by Ligotti save his non-fiction. He is a favorite and primary reason why I dislike pulpish weird fiction. Do you know a good Noctuary edition? That's the only one I don't own.

>> No.17592396

>>17592370
I'd get whatever's least expensive on thriftbooks. I was lucky enough to score a copy of Nightmare Factory for five bucks at a Half Price Books, so that's my primary Ligotti text.

>> No.17592458

>>17592396
Okay. I do have to tell you anon that his anthologies have revisions. 'Voice in the bones' is entirely different towards the end in Nightmare factory.

>> No.17592475

>>17592458
Damn. I did not know that. Hm. I'd imagine his webforum would have a good answer for you, those guys are pretty authoritative.

https://www.ligotti.net/index.php

>> No.17592522

I've been wanting to get into gothic fiction, recently purchased William Beckford - Vathek and Anne Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho. Has anyone read them? Are these a good start?

>> No.17592528

>>17592475
If it makes a difference, the revisions are by Tommy himself and I like them better usually. Penguin edition has revisions as well.

>> No.17592546

Has anyone here read The Castle of Otranto? It sounds based. I’m interested in reading more gothic stuff beyond Frankenstein because I didn’t enjoy that one so much.

>> No.17592558

I just finished Langan's the Fisherman on Audible and really enjoyed it. I tend to like a lot of King, but have no idea what's good recently. Any recommendations for my Audible credit?

>> No.17592574

>>17592558
Ramsey campbell

>> No.17592579

Thoughts on Horror’s Call? I’ve been reading through it. I’m digging the series a lot. Not at all what I thought it was going to be like.

>> No.17592592

>>17592574
Thanks! I'll give the Hungry Moon a try.

>> No.17593013

>>17592579
I only read Call of the Arcade but I thought it was good.

>> No.17594065

Why is it so hard keeping a horror thread alive when sci-fi and fantasy have hundreds of posts?

>> No.17594373

>>17594065
/sffg/ is literally just a bunch of schizo's spamming Bakker all day long. Nobody there talks about books or anything really.

>> No.17594407

>>17594065
Because weird lit and horror fiction are more niche than fantasy and sci-fi (which also adds to how elite you can feel about being a horror lit connoisseur; someone who has bookshelves of Blackwood, Lovecraft, Bierce, Dunsany and Smith looks more mysterious than someone who has Tolkien, Sanderson, Martin and Paolini)

>> No.17595149

>>17594407
good point

>> No.17595295

The books written by this site are pretty good. Horror’s Call.

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>>17595295

>> No.17595363

bump

picked up the Penguin edition of Algernon Blackwood's stories, looking forward to reading The Willows

>> No.17596017

>>17595295
I finished reading Call of the Kappa. Awesome. Glad to hear these books are catching on.

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>>17592546
Here's a chart if you didn't already have it. The Castle of Otranto is so much better than a lot of the other Gothic stuff, it's honestly insane. The only Gothic novel I would say outdoes Otranto is The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

>> No.17596078

>>17596047
I love the title.

>> No.17596086

>>17596078
Justified Sinner? Yeah it's a great title, and honestly the feeling you get from it is what you get in the text, although it's more complex than just that obviously.

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>>17592522
Vathek was disappointing, but its episodes are much better. Read them after finishing Vathek. Beckford never finished the last story, but Clark Ashton Smith did.
Radcliffe is really good, but I don't think she's a good start. Read The Castle of Otranto, it's the first gothic novels, after that follow your own path. Read the classics of the genre: Frankenstein, Dracula, The Monk, The Phantom of the Opera, and more obscure books like The Witch of Ravensworth, The New Monk, etc. Check Valancourt's gothic catalog, they've editing a lot of obscure novels.
https://www.valancourtbooks.com/gothic--romantic.htm

>> No.17596096

>>17592262
I have ‘songs of a dead dreamer and grimscribe’ in my unread book stack rn, is it good?

>> No.17596102

>>17596093
I've read a good deal of the books on that chart but I skipped one due to being told it wasn't that great, is The Midnight Bell not worthwhile?

>> No.17596113

>>17596096
it’s excellent. Read the Shadow at the Bottom of the World. it’s a short one and it’ll give you nightmares.

>> No.17596125

>>17596102
It's not bad, but not good. Very average and generic: daggers, a monastery, a mystery, a ghost that might not be a ghost, the MC falling for a girl in less than two pages.

>> No.17596137

>>17596113
jesus

>> No.17596146

>>17594065
Horror is more /lit/ than sci-fi/fantasy; less retards thus.

>> No.17596149

>>17596125
I see, guess I was right to not read it. gonna read The Italian soon enough, it sounds like a comfy read.

>> No.17596156

>>17596102
It's decent, definitely will scratch that itch if you are looking for a Gothic story and have read the rest.

>>17596125
Don't forget bandits.

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>>17596137
you said it man.

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I don’t know why this book isn’t discussed as much as the other ones one here. I thought it was the creepiest. It’s basically Baby’s Day Out but horror.

>> No.17597316

>>17596093
What is Melmoth the Wanderer like?

>> No.17597469

>>17597316
It's really good. The story is a series of Tales connected by Melmoth, but the first one, the story of the spaniar is a filter. It's too long, I thought I was never going to finish it.
Melmoth the Wanderer belongs to the gothic "school" of The Monk: anti catholic, gruesome and the ghosts and demons are real.

>> No.17597594

the willows by algernon blackwood is probably my favorite horror story
the king in yellow stories are also excellent

>> No.17597737

>>17596528
is this a new meme book? also, MEGA?

>> No.17597748

Is horror an untapped genre or is it just really hard to do well? It feels like the genre has 3 active writers who are the same quality of 100 writers in some population genre like crime

>> No.17597983

>>17592546
I read the first quarter of it while drunk and didn't understand much. Thanks for reminding me about its dude!

I'll finish it and post in this thread or a subsequent one on if it's good or not.