Horror in July. Anyone reading any comfy horror on these warm and sultry nights? If not, post some horror you like anyway.
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Horror in July. Anyone reading any comfy horror on these warm and sultry nights?
Horror in July. Anyone reading any comfy horror on these warm and sultry nights? If not, post some horror you like anyway.
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Horror I like: the veldt, we have always lived in the castle, edgar huntly, I have no mouth and I must scream (does that count?) and pretty much anything Lovecraft. I've not read much horror recently, and nothing that I liked very much.
>edgar huntley
>written in 1799
christ i want to read it for that reason alone. i haven’t read any supernatural/horror lit even remotely that old. i’m gonna check it out.
Add Vathek then too
If you're interested in older stuff, as the other anon said, vathek is pretty good, but also check out the Italian by Ann Radcliffe.
I'm working on a horror bibliography ordered by date. It has some old titles in it.
https://docdro.id/79Bmyoi
Make a chart
Post it
There are 430 entries in that spreadsheet, from 1764 to 2022.
>1799
wew
I tried reading Turn of the Screw last October and got absolutely filtered. I need to train myself for that.
I’m starting to read Dunsany so hopefully that does a lot of the work.
read story of the eye, grotesque and nearly funny with how absurd it gets
Luv me milk.
I've just read: Rosemary's Baby (1967), The Exorcist (1971), Hell House (1971).
Reading now: The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
Up next: Burnt Offerings (1973), The Amityville Horror (1977), Straub's Ghost Story (1979).
I'm getting myself in the mood for Halloween.
Picnic at Hanging Rock was a book first
Is Dean Koontz good? I tried to read these 3 books
Phantoms: very good, until you discover the intentions of the creature.
The Taking: I liked it a lot, basically the entire world turns into Silent Hill but the ending felt very rushed.
Your heart belongs to me: very creepy but it all gets ruined when the villain reveal herself.
Can anyone suggest me other good books from him?
Watchers
Not so much a horror book, but it is suspenseful and entertaining.
i picked up Darkness Comes while thrifting. the dialogue is laughable but its engaging enough to keep me interested so far.
The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf
this sounds good and only 100 pages, i’m definitely gonna give this one a try.
I just ordered three books tonight actually
>The King in Yellow
>Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
>Teatro Grottesco
No idea what I'm in for but I'm ready to be scared
If you like Blackwood, you might also like Jerome Sheridan Le Fanu.
>Teatro Grottesco
I don't know, maybe I'm stupid but I don't get Ligotti. All the "horror stories" that I read from him felt more like surreal/bizarre with some hidden moral meaning.
I'm likely just a pleb, but I found The King in Yellow really underwhelming. The stories themselves just weren't that interesting.
Why is he so obsessed with puppets?
I read The Dunwich Horror but was not scared by it at all.
only good to great horror book I read was The Haunting of Hill House and The Exorcist.
I have Peter Straub's Ghost Story but I'm not sure I'm going to like it or that it will be of the same quality. Been chasing the greatness of HoHH for a while now and have yet to find it
Hell House by Richard Matheson could be a good follow-up to HOHH. It's the same idea, done somewhat differently.
Got this from B&N years ago. The cover and title are very reddit but it’s 1100+ pages with lots of good stories
>forweird and afterweird
This is obnoxious, but the names seem reputable enough. Thanks.
>Horror in July
I recommend The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat. It isn't horror. More of a dark, hallucinatory psychological novel. It takes place in a sweltering village in an Iranian desert, so it's perfect for anyone looking for something dark to read in the summer.
thank you for the rec. i’ve barely cracked it and it’s already literally my diary tbh
Which font is that?
i posted it with a link i. the ereader thread. go there and search for the mobilereads forum link. forget the exact name at the moment
Yeah, it looks brilliant. Thanks, anon.
I’ve read the horror tales of Clarke Ashton Smith, Algernon Blackwood’s works, the ghost stories of William Hope Hodgeson, almost the entire body of MR James’ work, a bit of Sheridan Le Fanu, and Vathek. What is it about older horror that, although the horror is almost always implicit and the horrors are relatively simple including literal bedsheet ghosts, still manages to send genuine chills down my spine. Of the modern works of horror, I can count on one hand how many have genuinely given me chills. How does this happen?
I feel like life is creepier the less we know about it. Their lives were more full of unknowns. The more modernized and connected we become the less mystery is actually in our lives so we have no reference and modern horror reflects this. Just guessing. We have no real fears other than minorities and cancer.
They used techniques like subtlety, ambiguity, dropping hints, revealing the horror bit by bit, letting the reader know without letting the character know, working on characters' inner contradictions, letting the bad guys win.
Were apes so terrifying and horrible so as to genuinely scare people with their very forms back then? Whenever I read the pulps, especially those of weird tales (having all a kind of bent towards the weird and horror), they will almost invariably describe the hideous demon-thing. It will almost always resemble an ape. This is one of those few things that are no truely longer horrifying in the slightest, at least in my opinion.
Maybe it’s that they’re monstrous, animalistic, and incredibly strong, while resembling humans? I immediately think of the Conan story Rogues in the House.
I think they worked because most people were unfamiliar with Gorillas compared to now when we exposed to them in a positive light from a really young age.
I mean, they're basically humans but all fricked up looking with massive fangs, big long arms, black skin and fur, bulky as shit.
Europe didn't confirm their existence until 1850. It was like finding Bigfoot.
Bone chilling
Has anyone read invitation to beheading by Nabokov? Its comfy as hell but still I can't get over the fact that its written by a pedo.
>I can't get over the fact that its written by a pedo.
ngmi
>Noooo Nabokov is a pedophile
Then show me the victims.
You all need to read Michael McDowell. Start with the Elementals. Haunted houses on Alabama beaches. A kind of horror Faulkner
Died of AIDS ?
i saw him recommended elsewhere recently. not sure if he’s a homosexual but he wrote beetlejuice and nightmare before christmas so i got the elemntalist or whatever. gonna start it soon
He was gay but it didn't affect the writing too much. He was more obsessed thematically with death than anything. I bought a copy of his PhD thesis "American Attitudes Towards Death 1825-1865" and he had a death collection that's displayed at a university. It's the biggest theme of his work
I read Dracula a couple weeks ago, made me want to read more of the classic Gothic novels from around that time like The Beetle and Trilby.
I've been reading Ray Bradbury's October Country, and earlier today I picked up a Poe collection as well as the Penguin American Supernatural Tales collection.
I've also been reading Lovecraft's stuff, and a few months ago I finished Clive Barker's Books of Blood.
I liked Volume 1 more than Volume 2 and 3, but they were all pretty solid. I haven't read 4-6 yet, though.
Is there anything you guys would recommend as must read horror? I saw the IQfy chart ages ago but I'd rather ask directly because those charts kind of suck.
Thinking of picking this up since it's so cheap but 700+ pages.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1840226854/
Thanks for posting this, just bought it. EF Benson is criminally underrated.