I'm looking for some "scientists accidentally discover horrific paranatural thing that ends up with a lot of dead people" books. Preferably if it involves a dig-site.
I've read the appropriate tie-in novels, but that's not even close enough to scratching my itch. Any recommendations would be appreciated. I will not be accepting meme books at this time, thank you.
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You've read At The Mountains of Madness, right?
yeah
Although I haven't read it, and they're not exactly scientists, you might like The Terror. I watched the TV series (its a stand alone season) and thought it was pretty great.
>men on a ship
>mutiny
>starvation
>ice blocking their way
>supernatural monster picking them off
Might be your cup of tea.
Thank you, I did read it, and I did really enjoy it, but I think that there was no way for him to follow up on that incredible set-up of them peeling back the hull to reveal the hole in the ice. It was the best part, and the rest of monster story just couldn't live up to it. Still great though.
Read that one too, but it's not quite what I'm looking for.
>Thank you, I did read it, and I did really enjoy it, but I think that there was no way for him to follow up on that incredible set-up of them peeling back the hull to reveal the hole in the ice. It was the best part, and the rest of monster story just couldn't live up to
I know right? Insane reveal, felt like nothing came of it tho...
He set the bar too high. That's the kind of thing you can only get away with in a short story without a monster reveal or something. I've tried to think up an ending that would have done it justice, but I just can't. Maybe if it was some kind of alien?
Annihilation
The Taoists who created gunpowder
No piss, please.
Cat's Cradle
Annihilation
Jursssic Park?
Andromeda?
Prey?
Congo?
Read all of them and enjoyed them greatly. Relic, too.
At least one of Land's horror novellas has this sort of a vibe to it
Not a dig site but close enough
thanks, I'll check these out
blindsight is absolutely fire, you won't be disappointed. two funny things about it though:
1) it was published at peak Twilight fervor and he ridiculously included "vampires" in this book perhaps to capitalize on this, some people say. lol. personally i thought the vampire concept was okay, there were some moronic aspects but it's not as offensively bad as some people say. book coulda been better without it though
2) according to his blog i read forever ago, peter watts appears to believe he has invented the concept of epiphenomalism with this book which... he is a few centuries late (Hume). somebody pointed this out on the comments so maybe he's over that kek. also he appears to be a massive liberal gay which is disappointing, borderline TDS type
Gemma Files' short story Anasazi
She has a lot of Lovecraftian digsite stories
A group of scientists find a huge stone shaped like an egg in Turkey during an excavation, which the lead scientist believes to be related to Gnosticism. Most people who come in contact with the stone dies of some unknown form of radiation, so the stone is moved to a remote town in the US an put under care of the US army. A few months later, everyone in the town wakes up in an alternate timeline where Gnosticism is the major religion in America and Europe, and the US, Canada and France have merged into a fascist superstate.
Hilarity ensues.
that sounds insane
It is. The end is even fricking weirder.
>Turkey
>big egg
hahahahaha
Phantoms by Dean Koontz, it's a bit cheesy like most of this stuff but it's pretty much about exactly what you want
Also The Keep by F. Paul Wilson
Oh, I read that one. I liked it. I especially liked it when the entity started calling every a boring c**t. Very entertaining.
Haven't heard of that, but will check it out, thank you!
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As I said, I already read the appropriate tie in books. The Doom3 books by Costello are actually pretty damn good. The ones by ab Hugh and Linaweaver are hot garbage, though.
Earthcore
The Ice Limit
Riptide
The Third Gate
Deep Storm
thank you, i*ll check them out
Who goes there
Stephen King's The Mist.
I'm too scared it ends like the movie. I would not survive that.