Horror

[Anonymous No.22979946]

What’re the best horror books you guys have ever read?

[Anonymous No.22980018]

>>22979946
Here's a new chart that's been made recently, as an updated version of the one you posted.
To answer your question:
>Stephen King - The Shining
>Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs
>Lovecraft - some specific short stories, like The Music of Erich Zann, The Rats in the Walls, The Call of Cthulhu, the Dunwich Horror, The Festival, and The Colour Out of Space
>Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
>Ira Levin - Rosemary's Baby
>Kathe Koja - The Cipher
>Poppy Z. Brite - Exquisite Corpse
Patrick Süskind - Perfume (if that counts)

[Anonymous No.22980728]

>>22980018
Thanks m8

[Anonymous No.22981238]

>>22980728
What novels have cenobitelike creatures in it?

[Anonymous No.22981280]

>>22979946
Thoughts on the state of modern horror/horror writers?

[Anonymous No.22981285]

>>22979946
Going to read King In Yellow after watching True Detective

[Anonymous No.22981287]

Can someone recommend me a good horror book with werewolves?

[Anonymous No.22981294]

>>22981285
Only some of it is horror btw the other part is romance. Just a warning

[Anonymous No.22981827]

>>22981280
Idk haven’t really read anything too new so far. Just got back into reading as a hobby and want to reduce my screen time. Reading a lot of non fiction but want to not burn out so looking for good horror novels as I’m an edge lord.

Currently reading the exorcist and it’s amazing so far.

Last read Zombie by Joyce carol oates and thought it was hilarious. That part where QP is like “I didn’t assault him because he was black, I assaulted him because he was RETARDED” had me in stitches.

Upon getting back into reading though I’ve realized how shit my vocabulary is so I’m stoked to be improving that!

Sorry for the blog post

[Anonymous No.22981952]

>>22981280
There's loads of high quality horror writers and works right now, like Mark Samuels, Michael Wehunt, Reggie Oliver, Nathan Ballingrud, Brian Evenson, Caitlín Kiernan, Gemma Files, Laird Barron, John Langan, etc

[Anonymous No.22982225]

Recently tried The Fischerman by Langan after seeing it briefly on a list.
Pleasantly surprised since it's a modern release.

[Anonymous No.22982265]

>>22979946
Tales of the Unreal I and II are up there

[Anonymous No.22982297]

>>22979946
is House of Leaves actually worth reading? seems gimmicky

[Anonymous No.22982358]

>>22980018
how does this have Yeager but not Gary Shipley's Terminal park

[Anonymous No.22982501]

>>22982297
It is a bit gimmicky, but it's also still a pretty good read. I enjoyed it a lot, although you shouldn't expect the novel to be mainly horror.

[Anonymous No.22982975]

>>22982265
Is this worth reading?

[Anonymous No.22982981]

>>22982975
Yeah, like any anthology there are plenty of duds but also some spoopy well written tales. Tales 2 has more to choose from and most of the same writers who by that point have sharpened their craft. Well worth the price although I think there's a free pdf floating around too.

[Anonymous No.22983122]

>>22979946
I haven't touched much on horror fiction much which seems somewhat ironic since I got into reading literary fiction after realizing that I was wasting my time with creepypastas.
Read through Lovecraft's work, loved a good lot of it. At the Mountain of Madness was my favourite with Call of Cthulhu and Shadow Over Innsmouth being follow ups. There was a story about a Babylonian tower with fish people inhabiting it that I quite liked as well if I recall correctly.
I haven't gone too much further into the genre besides Edgar Allan Poe and a Gothic binge I did last fall—Dracula is dog shit I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
Going to read through the thread and filter out what I'll find interesting. Thanks for the thread, anon!

[Anonymous No.22983202]

>>22980018
The only problem with this one is the removal of Melmoth the Wanderer. It may be bloated, but at its peak it has the best horror writing of its era.

[Anonymous No.22983214]

>>22981952
>Mark Samuels
sadly Mark Samuels passed away this past Christmas.
His Witch Cult Abbey was a master piece. I believe his creature Lilith Blake was one of the scariest creation in horror literature.

[Anonymous No.22983289]

Just finished FAITH If anyone know some good exorcism books i would appreciate

[Anonymous No.22983374]

>>22983202
The person who made the original horror chart that OP posted, said that were he to remake his chart, he'd remove a lot of the gothic novels/precursors to horror, most of which were in the top 3 rows. That includes Otranto, Udolpho, Hoffmann's works, and also Melmoth.
I, who made the new chart along with a few other anons, tried to use as much of his previous input that he stated a few years ago when talking about his own chart, to make a new chart that uses as much of his knowledge as well as mine (and the other anons who helped).
I do hope you enjoy the rest of the chart! There's one addition which I would make right now if I could (without 500 years in paint to re-align everything), and that would be In a Lonely Place, by Karl Edward Wagner.

[Anonymous No.22983392]

>>22981238
Pls help

[Anonymous No.22983404]

>>22981238
do you mean other than The Hellbound Heart?

[Anonymous No.22983407]

>>22981287
Twilight

[Anonymous No.22983409]

>>22983404
Yes

[Anonymous No.22983432]

>>22983374
The list is very good. The biggest improvement is that you picked much better collections for the modern writers.
Also, "Between Two Fires" was a based pick.

I'm curious that both lists had nothing by Adam Neville in it. I thought his collection "Some Will Not Sleep" was good.

[Anonymous No.22983625]

>>22983432
This is the other chart that the anon of the first chart has made. It's only weird horror short story collections from 2000 and upward (if I'm correct on that), and I see it as a companion piece to both his old chart and my new one.
I didn't add Adam Nevill to the chart because I'm sadly not well versed in newer horror literature, and find it very difficult to choose newer works by different authors purely on opinions/reviews of others, when recency bias is a big thing. With older works, even if I haven't read them yet, there's a pretty strong general opinion on them, their literary qualities and impact it had. That's why I was able to switch, for example, The Ceremonies for Dark Gods; the general consensus is that The Ceremonies is too long and/or slow for the story it's trying to tell, and that Dark Gods is very strong and a better place to start if you want to read T.E.D. Klein's works.
With newer works, that's really difficult to do. I am planning on reading a lot more modern horror this year, as well as read more of the books on the chart I haven't read yet. (I know it's a collective effort to make a chart like this, but I do like knowing enough about it myself to update it if needed without much need of others.)
Either way, I haven't read Nevill at all, and have heard mixed reviews of some of his work (mostly The Ritual, which is his most read work). I also try not to copy a lot of works from the short story collection chart (even though I did do it a bit with Ballingrud and Evenson), because the charts go well together. (Some Will Not Sleep is on the collection chart.)

[Anonymous No.22983902]

>>22980018
stop shilling your new chart
it's shit

[Anonymous No.22984218]

>>22983409
The scarlet gospels

[Anonymous No.22984980]

bump

[Anonymous No.22985051]

I feel like literature is the worst medium for "scary"

[Anonymous No.22985177]

>>22985051
I guess you never heard of paintings then.

[Anonymous No.22985220]

>>22983902
post your own then

[Anonymous No.22985705]

Bump

[Anonymous No.22985708]

Is Nick cutter good?

[Anonymous No.22985714]

>>22985708
The Troop was pretty good
i thought the audiobook was above average if that's your thing

[Anonymous No.22986297]

>>22985220
We already had a good horror chart before you "improved it" and made it shit
kill yourself

[Anonymous No.22986383]

>>22986297
lmao

[Anonymous No.22987395]

>>22985714
Cool! I’ll check it out

[Anonymous No.22987412]

>>22979946
the bible

[Anonymous No.22987448]

>>22983902
What's wrong with it? Looks alright to me.
>>22985177
The anon you replied to is a bit of a goober, but paintings can be quite effective at conveying "scary." Arguably more effective than literature. I think the effect can be achieved with any medium, though.

[Anonymous No.22987463]

[Anonymous No.22987521]

Any recommendations for some good lit contemporary shit?

[Anonymous No.22987538]

>>22987521
I wanna know too.

Anyone know if Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian is any good

[Anonymous No.22987557]

>>22987521
Heard from a few people that this is amazing, haven't read it yet

[Anonymous No.22987656]

>>22987557
>Heard from a few people that this is amazing,
thanks fren, ill check it out right now.

[Anonymous No.22987788]

>>22987448
That one anon is irrationally upset about the new chart I guess because I removed the gothic/precursors to horror (those also were the wishes of the anon who made the previous chart, he spoke about what he'd do differently if he made a 2.0 at some point and I used all his commentary to improve the old chart). Now every time he sees the chart he won't stop being a crybaby about how the improved chart is shit etc etc

[Anonymous No.22988027]

Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.22988044]

>>22979946
just read creepypastas bro

[Anonymous No.22988169]

>>22981285
Only the first 5 stories are horror btw

[Anonymous No.22988177]

>>22983214
Holy shit, just found out from this. RIP.

[Anonymous No.22988310]

>>22982297
Haha you're right! It *is* gimmicky!

[Anonymous No.22988779]

>>22981952
>There's loads of high quality horror writers and works right now, like Mark Samuels, Michael Wehunt, Reggie Oliver, Nathan Ballingrud, Brian Evenson, Caitlín Kiernan, Gemma Files, Laird Barron, John Langan, etc
wow amazing thanks for nothing. put in some effort you cunt

[Anonymous No.22988792]

Picrel is exquisite.

[Anonymous No.22988822]

I’ve been working on this. So far I really like it. Feels a lot like Ligotti, but seemingly with a little more blood in its veins.

[Anonymous No.22988859]

The best collections of contemporary horror short stories? Maybe from multiple authors, like the "Legends" collection in fanrasy.

[Anonymous No.22988971]

>>22980018
>>22979946
Anyone know of a good horror novel with a simple story about hunting a monster, like Dracula.

[Anonymous No.22989542]

>>22983202
>best horror writing of its era
who gives a shit? does it have some of the best horror writing of all time? no? then I don't care

[Anonymous No.22989581]

>>22989542
Okay, but other people do care

[Anonymous No.22989582]

>>22988027
seconding this. caught my attention for 25 seconds then saw a review that said it was a one dimensional body horror tale so I disengaged

[Anonymous No.22989584]

>>22988822
>Feels a lot like Ligotti
should I bother reading anything from him?
if the book you posted has more blood in its veins I will just skip to that

[Anonymous No.22989588]

>>22988822
nvm. just saw that there is a story called "queer woman surgeon"
and then saw another comment that said there was needless politics shoe horned in. book and author discarded

[Anonymous No.22989605]

>>22988310
>>22988779
>>22989542
>>22989582
>>22989584
>>22989588
Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.22989613]

>>22989581
nobody cares what dumb people care about

[Anonymous No.22989617]

Lovecraft's "He", "The Festival", "The Colour Out of Space", "The Horror at Red Hook", "In the Vault", "Pickman's Model", "The Shadow over Innsmouth", "The Shadow Out of Time", "The Haunter of the Dark" and "The Dreams in the Witch House" are all fantastic stories!
So are Poe's "The Black Cat", "The Cask of Amontillado", "A Descent into the Maelström", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "Berenice", "The Imp of the Perverse", "The Man of the Crowd", "The Masque of the Red Death", "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether", "The Oblong Box", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Tell-Tale Heart".

None of these are "scary", of course, but they're super comfy. For the real thrills I always go to Goosebumps

[Anonymous No.22989627]

>>22988859
Check out the Best Horror of the Year anthologies by Ellen Datlow.

[Anonymous No.22989648]

Who /crab/ here?

[Anonymous No.22989787]

>>22985708
Troop is good, everything else is bloated and bad

[Anonymous No.22989803]

>>22988027
A one-star, poorly-written cringefest. Not a scrap of original thought and nothing remotely scary.

[Anonymous No.22989862]

>>22989803
why do people rate this kind of shit high? are they just friends and family?

[Anonymous No.22990717]

>>22989862
Most people have shit taste. Look at popular music for example

[Anonymous No.22990766]

Thoughts on this?

[Anonymous No.22990784]

Are there any good alien horror novels or short stories where they are there in the background working stealthly behind the scenes giving off an aura of existenalist dread and fear but it's not done in such a campy and ridiculous way like Tommyknockers or Dreamcatcher? I'm after something like Mothman Prohpecies I guess similar sort of tone and atmosphere where there's mass hysteria going on and nobody knows what the fuck is happening but they know something is off and can't explain

[Anonymous No.22990877]

>>22983289
What was the one with The Exorcist called?

[Anonymous No.22990941]

>>22989648
Me.
I am currently reading his book The Master.

[Anonymous No.22991269]

>>22989648
Lobsters are superior

[Anonymous No.22991288]

>>22990784
Some of Laird Barron's stories from his first three collections might be for you. Or his novel The Croning.

Would tell you more but I don't want to spoil it.

[Anonymous No.22991295]

>>22990766
It’s not horror. It might be horrific but it’s really about how both central characters are thinking beyond the terrible situation, the captor in hoping he will love her eventually, and the captive fortifying herself with plans to escape and also meditating on the past as a means of escapism, etc.
Definitely read it but don’t expect anything genre fiction horror about it.

[Anonymous No.22991303]

>>22991295
She will love him* whoops.

[Anonymous No.22991402]

I received these yesterday. Embrace tradition.

[Anonymous No.22991413]

>>22990784
To walk the night, by William Sloane.

[Anonymous No.22991620]

Any horror stories with ghosts that have huge mommy milkers?

[Anonymous No.22991632]

>>22991620
Hasshaku-sama

[Anonymous No.22991643]

If you like the outdoors along with weird shit going on, read Algernon Blackwood. His descriptions of nature are incredibly beautiful, and some of his stories still freak me out to this day.

[Anonymous No.22991930]

>>22979946
Anyone read Melmoth the Wanderer? I’d like to hear thoughts.

[Anonymous No.22992397]

>>22991930
I read it.
It's an anthology of stories spanning several years, all interconnected by Melmoth. The first story, the spaniard's tale, is a filter. It isn't bad, but it feels endless. Everything else is great. The tale of Immalee is my favorite.

[Anonymous No.22992523]

>>22991413
How is Jean Ray? I'm thinking of reading Malpertuis, but I don't know about the short story collections. I've read that some people say he's only got 2 very strong short stories (The Mainz Psalter, The Gloomy Alley), and the rest is just okay. What's your experience?

[Anonymous No.22992817]

>>22991402
what's her name? the girl you are trying to impress, I mean

[Anonymous No.22992820]

>>22992523
I didn't like this anthology. It had one good story (I think it was the one about a group of people looking through a window) and the others were forgettable at best.

[Anonymous No.22992825]

>>22992817
Sadly my wife isn't into gothic art.

[Anonymous No.22992982]

>>22992820
Thanks, I'll stick to trying out Malpertuis first and see if I want to try one of his collections after that.

[Anonymous No.22993137]

Cheers to the anon who recommend me The Other Side of the Mountain by Bernanos. It's such a weird little trip but I enjoyed it quite a lot, are all his other works like this?

>>22992523

I read Malpertuis a couple years ago and remember liking it a good amount. It reads like a proto-House of Leaves with a little Borges mixed in

[Anonymous No.22993181]

>>22993137
That sounds pretty sick, now I'll have to read it soon!

[Anonymous No.22993287]

Anyone read Michael Wehunt?

[Anonymous No.22993294]

What's the most based but underrated Lovecraft's book that defines his writings?

[Anonymous No.22993295]

Thoughts on the terror by Dan Simmons?

[Anonymous No.22993297]

>>22993295
Great book.

[Anonymous No.22993541]

>>22993295
it's for normies (plebs)

[Anonymous No.22993592]

>>22981280
BORING

[Anonymous No.22993682]

>>22992397
Oh okay thanks bro Ill check that one out first maybe

[Anonymous No.22993775]

>>22988971
Frankenstein.

[Anonymous No.22993777]

>>22993541
Is it good though? Not all pleb shit is bad.

[Anonymous No.22993783]

>>22993777
if you like to watch the big bang theory you will enjoy it

[Anonymous No.22993903]

>>22993783
Sick, I actually love that show. Does the monster that’s stalking the men on the wrecked ship pop up and shout BAZINGA! before attacking?

[Anonymous No.22994027]

>>22990941
Smith was a hell of a writer.

[Anonymous No.22994065]

>>22993903
>post spoilers because you're a seething cringe reddit fag
pathetic

[Anonymous No.22994280]

>>22993592
>stuffy "le classical is better" nerd typed this post

[Anonymous No.22994334]

How did gothic horror evolve into weird fiction? Like what notable horror novels came inbetween that could've influenced that direction?

[Anonymous No.22994512]

>>22994027
What book is that? Its familiar.

And yes he was. He lived about half an hour away from me and I was finally going to pluck up the courage and go to his yearly gathering at his home and meet him. Then Covid happened. Then he died that Christmas Eve.... :(

I've managed to score some signed books of his though. Fuck this "paperbacks from hell" trend though. Scalpers are rocketing prices of pulp horror trash because of it and Instagram

[Anonymous No.22994643]

>>22994512
It's Maneater

[Anonymous No.22994678]

>>22994280
No, most of that is boring as well. Horror is absolutely the hardest thing to write.

[Anonymous No.22994913]

>>22994678
>Horror is absolutely the hardest thing to write.
it's actually the easiest

[Anonymous No.22994925]

>>22994913
Why are almost no books actually able to inspire horror then? Tons of books manage to inspire all sorts of other emotions.

[Anonymous No.22994955]

>>22994925
>Why are almost no books actually able to inspire horror then?
citation needed
>Tons of books manage to inspire all sorts of other emotions.
citation needed
also, writing horror does not equal inspiring horror

[Anonymous No.22995328]

>>22994955
>citation needed
Source: me.

>also, writing horror does not equal inspiring horror
What does writing horror mean then?

[Anonymous No.22995449]

Any good horror with WMAF ?

[Anonymous No.22996584]

>>22995328
>ha! you call this writing "horror"? Thine works have inspired horror in me not!
it's a genre you retard and no one cares about your trust me bro citation

[Anonymous No.22996606]

>>22996584
Are you saying I'm just a stunted person who's incapable of being horrified and normalfags really experience horror when reading some Stephen Kang animatronics tier haunted house story?

[Anonymous No.22996621]

>>22996606
no, i'm saying you are stupid

[Anonymous No.22996633]

>>22996621
How horrible.

[Anonymous No.22996691]

>>22996633
horror might be the hardest to write well, though
at least for screenplays

[Anonymous No.22996996]

>>22996633

[Anonymous No.22997022]

>>22994334
Poe

[Anonymous No.22997152]

>>22987557
H-h-how do you pronounce his last name?

[Anonymous No.22997165]

>>22979946
As a Kid salems lot scared me lots

[Anonymous No.22997211]

What’s with stories like the Willows, the White People, the Three Impostors, Number 13, etc., and why do they give me the chills when most other horror stories don’t?

[Anonymous No.22997270]

>>22997152
fer-soodz

[Anonymous No.22997283]

>>22989613
faggot

[Anonymous No.22997387]

>>22997283
dummy

[Anonymous No.22997390]

>>22997211
Those stories successfully achieve the feel of horror of the unknown, unlike most other horror.

[Anonymous No.22997449]

>>22979946

[Anonymous No.22997597]

>>22997449
Is this book a meme now

[Anonymous No.22997662]

>>22997597
Is it good?

[Anonymous No.22998001]

I finished Ligotti's Grimscribe 3 nights ago. The same night I had a small panic attack over nothing and took next day's work off. At home I wandered around my house moving objects that seemed out of place, while gnawing a hole in my lower lip. Each night since I've had unsettling dreams that I can't remember. I don't think Ligotti is for me.

[Anonymous No.22998029]

>>22998001
It sounds like Ligotti is perfect for you

[Anonymous No.22998378]

>>22997211
vibes

[Anonymous No.22999445]

Bump

[Anonymous No.22999873]

>>22997662
It's ok, don't get the claws book it's bad. It's a just bunch of anthology short stories that are just ok and boring

[Anonymous No.22999976]

A horror book with "Fight Club" vibes (a big night city)?

[Anonymous No.23000174]

>>22979946
Has there been a fully Weird detective? What I mean is detective stories in the Weird Horror tradition the likes of Ligotti and Mark Samuels and what have you. True Detective comes close but that's TV and takes a conventional, realistic outcome by the end of it.

Horror and detective stories always lived in harmony (Poe, Lovecraft, etc.) so how come there is little reliance on them anymore? Does the eventual solution to a mystery take away from the fear of the unknown? How do you present a Game and Horror at the same time?

[Anonymous No.23000182]

>>22988822
I have it on my shelf but not touched yet. I read his other book (Aleytomancer or however you spell it). He had a lot of high notes but a lot of conventional ones too. I particularly enjoyed the transformation story of the bible scholar who turns into a bug and is healed of her paralysis. It seemed to imply a strange picture of Jesus healing the ill by body morphing them into something that isn't human (and isn't suffering either).

[Anonymous No.23000905]

>>23000174
Brian Evenson has written detective stories that are also horror/weird. I think he has a novel like that too.

[Anonymous No.23001329]

>>23000174
Carnacki the Ghost Finder is one, though he was created by Hope Hodgeson who was a weird story writer.

[Anonymous No.23001579]

>>22999976
T. E. D. Klein's short stories

[Anonymous No.23002517]

>>22991413
>Twenty Days of Turin
Thanks, I meant to read this years ago and totally forgot the title

[Anonymous No.23002874]

>>22994643
I've got the hardback somewhere

[Anonymous No.23003740]

Where do I start with Brian Evenson?

[Anonymous No.23004285]

>>23003740
I'll start with what this guy told me yesterday
>>23000905
It's called Last Days.

[Anonymous No.23004447]

>bierce writes that being strangled is a less tragic fate than going to California

What did he mean by this in The Death of Halpin Frayser?

[Anonymous No.23004983]

>>23003740
I've heard good things about Last Days, A Collapse of Horses, and Song for the Unraveling of the World. I think either of those three will be a good start.

[Anonymous No.23004991]

Is The Legend of Sleepy Hollow a horror story? Most of it is about Ichabod, the rest of it is food porn. And when it ends there is no horseman, no ghost, it was just a prank bro.

I mean, I like it as a story, but I think if you go into it expecting horror you may be disappointed.

[Anonymous No.23005082]

>>23004991
I think it is a gothic (horror) story, but also don't forget it was written in 1820

[Anonymous No.23005406]

>>22986297
There's always room for improvement.

[Anonymous No.23005420]

p

[Anonymous No.23005681]

>>23005420
e

[Anonymous No.23005756]

>>23004285
I wouldn't say Last Days is really a "detective" story per se. Its good but it goes to some very strange places quick

[Anonymous No.23005762]

>>22979946
This had some legitimately horrying scenes, good read, if a bit meandering

[Anonymous No.23006043]

People on /lit/ have dog shit opinions for the most part, so I won't fault anyone for not checking this book out either.

I've read "The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All" again and still love it. Currently reading Imago Sequence by the same author.
For the most part, it's cosmic horror in noire-ish 50s settings, creepy 1930s catholic schools, lumberjack camps in the forest, isolated puritan villages and some genuinely creepy characters. It's about things in the dark and uncanny people/circumstances that you can just tell are somehow off, leading to frightening revelations and scenarios.

Obviously I'm not a good reviewer and feel that I have to keep things vague in order not to spoil any of the contents, but as other anons have put it, Barron is one of the authors that are worth checking out if you're into frightening stuff.
Without going into detail: if you find lovecraft enjoyable and immersive (I do) and don't mind the occasional bit of disgusting shit along with your horror, you should check it out on amazon or something.

The Imago Sequence, from what I can tell (only the first chapter in) follows a similar tone. A lost forest hut in the isolated wilderness of Virginia where the main character and a bunch of government spooks are tasked with watching over some scientists committing MK ultra research during the cold war and stuff gets fucky.
So far, I enjoy it.

I'm also a huge bakkerfag if that helps you discard my opinion more easily.

[Anonymous No.23006053]

>>23005762
>good read

You better be right, bucko.

[Anonymous No.23006069]

>>23006053
so long as you're not put off by a bit of social commentary with your horror (i.e. book's a bit gay at times) you should have a good time. its very unique and excellent at building a creepy atmosphere

[Anonymous No.23006183]

>>23006043
I'm planning on checking out his first three collections (Imago Sequence, Occultation, and Beautiful Thing), and it's good to read a review like this; it makes me want to read them soon!

[Anonymous No.23006398]

>>23000174
>Has there been a fully Weird detective?

There's a lot of crime noir meets Lovecraft or Lovecraft-adjacent books. It's practically a genre unto itself.

John Hornor Jacobs, Southern Gods

William Hjortsberg, Falling Angel.

LaValle,The Ballad of Black Tom is a riff on The Horror at Red Hook.

Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft.

More:
https://lovecraftzine.com/2013/08/13/gumshoe-mythos-noir-and-lovecraft-fiction/

https://crimereads.com/20-essential-crime-and-horror-crossovers/

[Anonymous No.23006920]

Any recommendation for horror books taking place in warzones or any new good books with demons

[Anonymous No.23007111]

>>22994027
>Smith was a hell of a writer.

more like one hell of a cringelord.
why can't he just write that entire part without shit like "nipples burning like candles" and "voluptous breasts"?

it reads like somebody wanted to write some grisly shit, then started writing agony porn and suddenly switched styles to "horny guy writing erotica fanfiction".

it's not even GRRM "squatted in the grass, shitting" tier, the paragraph is just so straigh up badly written it made me cringe from 2nd hand embarassment.

i hope that was a one time blunder and not the general tone of the book.

[Anonymous No.23007268]

>>23006920
>Any recommendation for horror books taking place in warzones

David Drake, Night & Demons - a collection of his short horror and weird fiction. The first half-dozen stories, more or less, are horror stories set in Vietnam. I enjoyed them.

F. Paul Wilson, The Keep. A good, atmospheric read, although I didn't like twist at the end.

Ambrose Bierce, Chickamauga. Outstanding short story set during the US Civil War -- not horror, but it has some *truly* horrific imagery.

[Anonymous No.23007283]

>>23007268

Thanks man, I'll enjoy these

[Anonymous No.23008508]

>>23006043
I liked the Imago Sequence story wherein it's some elder god ruminating on the world it inhabits and how it feels about our world and humanity

[Anonymous No.23008572]

I would like to recommend Valley of the Dead by Kim Paffenroth, wherein Dante, in his exile, encounters a plague of zombies. This is not a spoof. It is a straight horror novel of unusually high quality. Very good storytelling, rich in situations and characters, and written with a certain stylized gravitas - picture a medieval era woodcut landscape - that makes the whole thing strangely compelling, like a fever dream. It's written at a level of quality that could fairly be described as /lit/, but certainly not in the sense of being stodgy or "literary." It's fast-paced, a good read, with a well-rendered group of core characters, and constant narrative invention. It deserves some love on this board. Check it out.

[Anonymous No.23008631]

>>22980018
Between Two Fires is so much fun. Are there any other similar books (either in this list or elsewhere)?

[Anonymous No.23009539]

>>23008631
It's fun and I'm surprised how straight it played the goodness of faith. I don't think there's much to find here though since Between Two Fires is more fantasy than horror (but those few horror moments had an enormous impact).

Not really a book recommendation but if you like the idea of plaiyng tabletop RPGs you may enjoy Lamentations of the Flame Princess. It is a very deadly RPG meant to be played during the times of the Black Plague. It has high amounts of Weird in-between the historic realities. Reading Between Two Fires I kept remembering an old campaign I ran in that rules-system.

There's a free adventure called Better Than Any Man about high-ranking town leaders falling prey to a cult while the Swedes are preparing an attack.

[Anonymous No.23009981]

Bump