>October
>No thread about any horror kinos
Let's have a thread about anything horror related.
What do you guys are reading or planing to read this month?
I recently read pic related, i actually enjoyed it but what's the deal with this having two endings? It's weird when the og ending was actually better than the other.
Without spoiling, Kill ending>Titty ending
Now I'm reading The Cellar by Laymon, is the rest of the series of The Beast House any good? I'm on the first couple of chapters so can't say much about it
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Here for more recs. My horror shelf runneth over and I intend to keep it that way
Been on a huge Christopher Beuhlman kick lately with Between Two Fires then Those Across the River. Put him down for a little bit to not lose some appreciation. Started a class up today on vampire lore and I've never actually read Bram Stokers Dracula so diving into that classic finally to be followed by Joe Hills NOS4A2
just read a brief synapses of Starve Acre and I'm all about it. Just ordered it
>Joe Hills NOS4A2
Sell me on this, because it sounds fricking gay
>What do you guys are reading or planing to read this month?
I just finished Books of Blood Vol. 1-3 and really enjoyed it. Never liked short stories before but this changed my mind. I've got some collections from Evenson, Ligotti, and Bradbury on the waitlist for next year. Of course I'll have to read Cold Hand in Mine and I'll eventually crack open my Poe collection; Murders in the Rue Morgue was kind of a let down since I was expecting more horror than anything.
I started Malachi Martin's Hostage to the Devil which has been kind of lame so far. Not really as 'horror' as I was expecting, he's just goes on about how important God and priests are with (what has now become) standard exorcism stories that have been told a million times. Don't know if I'll finish it. David Morrel's The Totem has been sitting around for a while too and I've slowly been getting through it
Reading the black flame Jason novels on my kindle because expensive physical copies. Some of these are just junky fun
FRICK BOOKSTORES FOR ALWAYS HAVING SHELVES OF FRICKING STEPHEN KING BOOKS. I DON'T WANNA READ ABOUT UNDERAGE BLOOD ORGIES AFTER KILLING A INTERDIMENSIAL SPIDER DEMON. I WANNA READ H.P LOVECRAFT IN PEACE FRICKING COOMSUMER KEKS
now that you mention it, i already posted this on IQfy but you homies probably would appreciate this better
here is the 7 page train that those kids run on a girl
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btw for those who dont know, this is from Stephen King`s IT
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>I DON'T WANNA READ ABOUT UNDERAGE BLOOD ORGIES
suit yourself
Every time. The horror section is always a third the size of any other, and it’s 60% King, 15% Ann Rice, 10% Koontz, and maybe 5% Lovecraft and some mass markets.
I MEANT 70% KING I KNOW BASIC MATH BELIEVE ME
What’s some good horror from a philosophical perspective that isn’t Ligotti?
Arthur Machen does a bit of history/theological philosophizing in some of his stuff while playing with the horror of welsh mythology. "The white people" and "the three imposters" are the best examples. You could always pick up the Vasterian magazine where writers publish their ligotti inspired works. I have the first two volumes and they are pretty decent. Its also not a bad way to discover contemporary horror writers you enjoy. The first story of the first volume is a play where one of the characters realizes he is a character suffering for the amusement for the audience.
I have some Machen stuff but what else is there?
I should add I’m primarily looking for short stories since I have a whole bunch of non-Halloween stuff on my itinerary.
Aside from Machen and Ligotti I have only found writers treating philosophy as a horror driver instead of horror implying a dark philosophy in Vasterian magazine, and even those writers seldom write that kind of thing. For most of them it is their chance to write something not completely in their usual range to celebrate Ligottis influence on them. My only advice is to look at what other authors were published by grimscribe press, and maybe even check out some of the editors work, and see if its what you are looking for. Or just get the magazine just for the fiction.
I enjoyed this too, though it had its flaws with pacing etc. I didn't realise there was two endings. Just did a bit of reading and the potted summary of the original ending initially makes more sense but was probably too expected? Like I kinda thought that was where it was gonna go.
The 'new' ending is a bit too 'shock factor' for my liking, especially given I didn't actually find it that disturbing, but I suppose it leaves the door open for the narrator succumbing to grief in the same way too?
If anyone's after more folk horror I highly recommend Arthur Machen's short stories. Robert Aickman is also great; his aren't really folk horror so much as eerie nightmares that play on post-war Britain's contradictory nature.
I'm readind offspring, the sequel to jack ketchum's off season. I can't wait to see what horrors await this cast of likeable characters.
Going to start this tonight, been getting a few recommendations for it.
Been a good while since I read it, I remember liking it a whole lot, I will probably reread it this month too.
Why are the first few stories unsettling, only to turn into a bunch of romance stories which, while actually touching, are completely different from the first few stories?
I think the intent was to write a collection of fiction that hinted at the contents of the king in yellow play without showing you any of it. I don't remember any one of the stories that, if the romantic aspect weren't present, wouldn't have been at least a disturbing thing to go through. It almost hints at the king in yellow play is somehow "so romantic its maddening."
The first few stories are good, but just barely above meh. The idea behind it is solid, but it's another example where the derivative works are just better in every way.
Horror in 2023 is just being poor
Fricking Marxist
Anyways, what’s some good body horror that’s not hipster tripe?
have a nice day
I've started reading Poe but I've yet to be spooked. The fall of the house of usher had a lot of ornate prose but wasn't really scary. Even the ending scene with the dead sister knocking on the door failed to scare me. It just felt kind of campy
Id say that Poe is scary in the same way that Aickman is scary (lots of build up and mood to a quick spook) but with the disadvantage of being highly influential to the point where his writing, to a modern audience, feels corny or over done, but only. because he is the father of many imitators. Similar to M R James in that respect. That being said I have not been able to find another writer that can prolong a sense of dread like Poe does in "the pit and the pendulum," "the cask of amontillado," or "A decent into the maelstrom." And I still go back and read "the black cat" and "the tell tale heart" it seems every year. The pacing, tone and ramping of madness in those stories almost feel like poetry to me.
Angone got some vampire books they want to recommend? I've read Dracula, Live Girls, Salem's Lot, Interview with the Vampire, and Blindsight if that counts. Interview was my favorite so far. Well, Blindsight was actually, but again, it isn't really a vampire book.
The Lesser Dead
Just finished this one. I felt something was missing up until the very end when the last chapter turned it from 'pretty good' to a solid 9/10. Solid recommend.
Though it’s set in Serbia not Russia
Nightblood by T. Chris Martindale. Bite, The Stake, and The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon.
Did Frank get banned? Or is he just asleep?
Hopefully he's banned forever. And the OP asked for horror, not horrible.
>Frank
who is frank?
>Hopefully he's banned forever >horrible
and what did he do?
He's an author who shills his books here. His most popular bool jas a rating of 2.83
book* has*
books aren't scary
Is there a book that is truly scary? i haven't read so many horror books but the ones I've read honestly haven't scared me, I think that's weird considering that I came from lurking the creepy greentext thread on /x/ and I felt more frightened by those greentext than the books I've read
Don't know, i like the atmosphere
Is there a book that's ever made you truly cry? I feel like with certain mediums there is too much of a disconnect for certain feelings/emotions
>Is there a book that's ever made you truly cry?
yes
>Animal Farm
I'll avenge you, Boxer!
>Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door
I'm only human.
Same man ive tried reading spooky tales but they just don't spook me.
Maybe it's cause in real life things like that don't scare me. I work in a hospital with an abandoned ward thats said to be haunted, and everyone is spooked by it but once an hour I'll casually stroll through it lingering in the rooms. Never really been scared
OP here, haven't finished The Cellar but i just wanted to say. HOW human males can compete? b***hes are all over that BPC (Big Pale wiener) kek
I'm enjoying Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton, gothic/fantasy/body horror
It's more literary than people give it credit for, McNaughton is a sad example of a brilliant, lonely man
best time for comy reading
Almost finished listening to Communion by Whitley Strieber.
4-6 AM
i implied october newhomosexual
The book that truly scared me was The Mothman Prophecies. The descriptions of the fricking thing flying above a car while not even flapping its wings made my whole skin crawl. Also the reports of people hearing sounds at night, receiving silent phone calls, god damn that makes me shiver. True or not, it's bizarre. One that I want to read is Communion, but the cover alone makes me drop it. Has any anon here got into something like the shit I described? Also looking for recs.
There is an entire sub genre of real paranormal experiences, some of them believable some of them absolutely ridiculous trash. John Keel was someone who tried to make sense of it but the reality is: The deeper you go into the paranormal the more chaos and weirdness you encounter and it has absolutely no pattern. In fact, the lack of pattern seems to be the point.
Yes, I was actually surprised in the way the man tried to make sense of it, at least it was somehow grounded. But uh, this is way to much for my me. I guess I will stick to fiction lol.
Any Peter Straub recs? Loved Ghost Story but I haven't read anything else by him yet.
Charles Fort was the first guy to start studying that stuff and his books compile some really weird happenings. Pic rel.
Jacques Vallee's UFO stuff and Strieber or whatever Communion guy's name is are foundational for the genre. Also Mike Clelland's Owls & UFOs book.
Why is there so much French in the King in Yellow?
Author was living in Paris at the time
Chambers was actually a bestselling author of harlequin tier chick lit of his time who somehow accidentally invented lovecraftian cosmic horror
Reading M. R. James. Super comfy stories
I've only started reading King books in the last year. I enjoy most of them. Does anyone know where to get an audiobook copy of Night Shift? For the life of me I don't know where it is.
I read Starve Acre a couple years ago and it really creeped me out. I loved it.
I didn't know there were two endings. I read the titty ending, which I thought was reminiscent of Rosemary's Baby, in a way, and very good.
>Read King in Yellow
>King in Yellow only appears in first couple stories
>No mention thereafter
>It’s all romance
Was Chambers possessed when he wrote the first several stories of The King in Yellow?
Last year’s list.
I started my Halloween reads this month with Shriley Jackson's The Sundial. I liked it more than all the other's that aren't We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Hillhouse. Felt like she had gotten close to perfecting her style. Still a shame that she died so young, I would have loved go have seen where she would have went with her next work.
I managed to get these books on sale as the library reduced its collection, I was deeply surprised to find Machen and Blackwood! The question now is where do I begin, I'm pulled in many directions and they all have a thumotic appeal to the senses of a blanketed night.
looks like kino is back on the menu boy
>A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
this is by far the best Halloween book I've ever read. It's got everything you'd ever want in a Halloween book like witches and devils and Frakenstein and every other classic movie monster you can think of and it's all wrapped up in one great big bow of Halloween goodness.
AND it's written so that each chapter is one day in october so you can read one chapter a day the whole month which I highly recommened. There's nothing more Kino than reading a chapter with a thunderstorm set on October 13th on October 13th during a thunderstorm. When the thunder outside lines up with the thunder in the book - thats when you become truly immersed.
I just remember a year ago or so where some homosexual kept trying to force a "reading group" into this general and this was the book they used.
Maybe that homosexual was (You)
>le heckin' halloweeners u guise!
Frick off loser.
That's you, you say that. AND you look like a basedjak.
No, I was clearly referring to you, dipshit redditor
holy shit you frickin got him
Trips of truth
Samegay
If only you knew how bad things really are
I buy a lot of older Weird/Decadent books from indie presses. If you're looking for some exceedingly obscure and great weird lit I highly recommended
Snuggly Books
Dedalus Books (UK)
and Wakefield Press
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker by Jean Lorrain or anything by him is a good place to start. Snuggly Press in particular has a ton of spooky collections from him and tons of other fin-de-siecle authors.
Oh, and buy them new not used off amazon, they're often cheaper brand new but google will give you amazon links over the official publisher when searching for them.
yes
finished this one, not gonna lie, it was a very entertaining read, but BOY that fricking ending kinda made me hate it.
Friendly reminder that women are capable of ruining everything just to satiate their horny c**ts
I`ll assume you are saying yes to my question about that series, nice to hear. i`ll grab the second one another time. Now I`ll be reading Stoker`s Dracula
Recommend me horror with a Silent Hill/alternate reality/limbo vube.
Are the other books in Anne Rice's vampire chronicles worth reading? I noticed one of them is called something like Prince Lestat in Atlantis, which doesn't fill me with confidence.
A selection of spooky books I’m reading.
What makes modern horror stories like Black Teeth so profoundly terrible other than the lack of skill their writers have?
Either a lack of understanding of the time period they're writing about, or they've set the story in modern times.
>millennial woman author
Lmao. There's still some decent horror written today, but it's short stories (and male authors obviously). Try Richard Gavin.
The Fisherman is good as well. Not a short story, but still written by a man (John Langan)
Oddly apt.
I know you’re gonna say it doesn’t count but I’ve been listening to hp lovecraft audiobooks at work all week and I fricking love it, such kino material. Everyone seems to complain about his writing style and I genuinely don’t get it. He’s incredibly descriptive with what I think is fantastic word choice, that yeah to many will seem verbose and obviously archaic, but I fricking love it. I love the New England setting, though the reuse of obviously consistent agents and artifacts of his world building does sometimes get a bit tedious, but I do get how the ubiquity of the miskatonic university's or the necronomicon’s presences make everything more connected and I sometimes enjoy that element. Some of the sci fi does make the endings and revelations a bit predictable, like “oh it’s actually aliens, Cthulhu and the Shoggoth again didn’t see THAT coming” but it’s probably also affected by me being desensitized and overly familiarized with the watered down idea of the Cthulhu entity as it exists and is referenced in popular culture, especially in social spaces populated by dnd players and animegays such as conventions
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>Listening to audiobooks at work
How about you DO YOUR FRICKING JOB!?
Frick off shlomo
I work at a warehouse putting the fricking goods you use everyday on a pallet so it gets sent to your homosexual ass store. Let me guess you work in an cushy office and are either scrawny or fat as shit.
Half of mine is driving. Also frick off, bootlicking israelite.
I'm reading through lovecraft right now and loving it too. I tried listening to a couple of his stories in audiobook but I guess I'm low IQ because his prose is way too dense for me to properly digest while it's being read to me.
Thoughts on Under the Skin by Faber? I think it is one of the more underrated books dealing with aliens.
I loved the movie
I'm currently reading Exquisite Corpse, and I have a number of horror novels lined up, not in any order. still unsure about which one to read next.
The Exorcist
Collected Ghost Stories (M.R. James)
Let The Right One In
Alone With the Horrors
Beloved
Perfume
The Lottery and Other Stories
Gogol's Ghost Stories
Are splatterpunk pulp novels like playground or slob actually any good or worth buying or are they just for tards on TikTok to have a little moral panic about and boost sales
Just read the high quality splatterpunk like American Psycho, The Girl Next Door, The Cipher, and Exquisite Corpse