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Oxxidation posted:the ending was the culmination of the ecological devastation that had been happening in the background of all the personal drama going on through the last several centuries of narrative. proulx knew exactly how to end it - with the barkskins' final descendent desperately trying to assure herself that there must still be a way for them to undo the damage they've caused, as the seas quietly continue to rise Thematically, yes, it ties up really well, but I felt like the final set of characters and the present-dayish incarnations of the settings were much less well conveyed than everything that came before
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# ? Jun 1, 2024 04:51 |
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I appreciate the recs. I probably should check out other southern gothic classics. I love how McDowell handled the supernatural and otherworldly. Anyone read or listen to Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates? I've seen it recommended in searching for stuff similar to Blackwater.
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# ? Apr 30, 2021 03:30 |
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Just finished listening to The Cipher by Koja. Goddamn that was a good book and the narrator did an excellent job. He sounded so drat tired, especially by the end, it was perfect Book left me feeling gross and icky and depressed and I imagine thats the point. It was incredibly overbearing and rife with evocative imagery. Just fantastic and something thats gonna be stuck in my head for awhile I'm looking for something a bit more lighthearted next so I'm going with either Skullcrack City cause that looks fun or maybe The Meg since im a child and love gruesome creature features
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# ? Apr 30, 2021 15:52 |
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Just finished Blackwater and ahhhhhhhhhhh. I think I could have read 800 more pages about the Caskeys.
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# ? May 3, 2021 05:38 |
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PsychedelicWarlord posted:Just finished Blackwater and ahhhhhhhhhhh. I think I could have read 800 more pages about the Caskeys. That’s the general consensus yeah
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# ? May 3, 2021 06:21 |
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Ornamented Death posted:Most anything by Skipp and Spector with the caveat that their books meet your criteria but lack the humor of JDatE. The Light at the End is a beautiful (ok, perhaps that's not the right word) evocation of grimy, dangerous 1980's New York. Quite apart from its merits as a horror novel, it's become a period piece that pictures a New York that doesn't exist any more and it's fun to read for that reason alone.
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# ? May 4, 2021 07:00 |
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Also their Book of Dead release (it is a collection of other writer’s stories) might be the best zombie fiction in book form of all time.
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# ? May 4, 2021 11:36 |
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Can anyone recommend any books that deal with suicide? Thanks!
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# ? May 7, 2021 00:34 |
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You okay?
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# ? May 7, 2021 01:14 |
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Ariza posted:Can anyone recommend any books that deal with suicide? Thanks! 'The End' by Gary McMahon
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# ? May 7, 2021 01:28 |
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Conrad_Birdie posted:You okay?
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# ? May 7, 2021 03:19 |
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Ariza posted:Can anyone recommend any books that deal with suicide? Thanks! The last story, "The Good Husband", in Nathan Balingrud's North American Lake Monsters deals with this theme and is absolutely heartbreaking but amazing. But also Conrad_Birdie posted:You okay?
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# ? May 7, 2021 13:21 |
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Sorry, yeah I'm ok! Sunglasses emote was meant to be silly, bad taste. Just trying to deal with another friend shuffling off and I realized horror is how I best understand horrible things.
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No. 1 Juicy Boi posted:The last story, "The Good Husband", in Nathan Balingrud's North American Lake Monsters deals with this theme and is absolutely heartbreaking but amazing. This one is really good. It's the best story from an already great collection.
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Ariza posted:Sorry, yeah I'm ok! Sunglasses emote was meant to be silly, bad taste. Just trying to deal with another friend shuffling off and I realized horror is how I best understand horrible things. Geez that's rough. Hope the recommendations help, in whatever way they can.
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No. 1 Juicy Boi posted:The last story, "The Good Husband", in Nathan Balingrud's North American Lake Monsters deals with this theme and is absolutely heartbreaking but amazing. Putting in another vote for this. I still think about it more than half a year later, absolutely stellar and haunting.
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Ariza posted:Sorry, yeah I'm ok! Sunglasses emote was meant to be silly, bad taste. Just trying to deal with another friend shuffling off and I realized horror is how I best understand horrible things. I’m really sorry at the loss of your friend. My sympathies are with you, and I also understand relating to bad things happening through horror. You’re not alone. We’re a bunch of weirdos here with ya. For actual recommendations I would suggest a collection of Thomas Ligotti’s short stories. A lot aren’t explicitly about self-harm but there’s a sad, existential dread to many of them.
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Ariza posted:Sorry, yeah I'm ok! Sunglasses emote was meant to be silly, bad taste. Just trying to deal with another friend shuffling off and I realized horror is how I best understand horrible things. Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. Not strictly speaking horror, but the centerpiece novella of this short story collection is exceptionally visceral and nightmarish.
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# ? May 8, 2021 04:46 |
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House of Leaves dealt with loss in a way that meant a lot to me
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# ? May 8, 2021 05:47 |
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I'm reading The House Next Door and the book is fine, but somehow the author's writing style just ... bugs me, in some way that's hard to put to words. Maybe it's that there's this weird almost pseudo smug undercurrent of late 70s middle upperclass white lifestyle bullshit everywhere, including dropping brand names, talking about dressing casually in slacks, talking about "having money", name-dropping job titles and roles etc. I'm interested in seeing where it goes, though. The second couple just moved into the titular House Next Door and things are about to go from bad to worse, probably.
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# ? May 8, 2021 14:13 |
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Is that the Siddons’ book (the title has been used a lot)?
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# ? May 8, 2021 18:14 |
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nate fisher posted:Is that the Siddons’ book (the title has been used a lot)? Yeah sorry, should have clarified. The Siddons one yes.
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# ? May 8, 2021 21:04 |
Fitzy Fitz posted:House of Leaves dealt with loss in a way that meant a lot to me All I remember about that book is "I won't let you gently caress me, but you can cum on my tits"
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# ? May 11, 2021 01:15 |
I finished reading The Cipher. I liked the first parts of it where they were investigating the Funhole and something resembling a mystery and horror stuff was happening. But then the next two thirds of the book was about a tedious toxic relationship and the Funhole seemed secondary to it. The main character seemed adamantly opposed to doing anything, which kills a lot of motivation for me, the reader, to care about the story. The book eventually felt like I was reading the same plot beat over and over again and then the book ends.
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# ? May 18, 2021 07:19 |
Three stories into Gemma Files' new short story collection In That Endlessness, Our End, and this is some good poo poo. The Puppet Motel is just a great haunting story for our modern times. Best collection I have read so far since NALM
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# ? May 21, 2021 02:11 |
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GrandpaPants posted:I finished reading The Cipher. I liked the first parts of it where they were investigating the Funhole and something resembling a mystery and horror stuff was happening. But then the next two thirds of the book was about a tedious toxic relationship and the Funhole seemed secondary to it. The main character seemed adamantly opposed to doing anything, which kills a lot of motivation for me, the reader, to care about the story. The book eventually felt like I was reading the same plot beat over and over again and then the book ends. I felt the exact same way. I much prefered The Visible Filth even though I know it's not one of the favorites in Wounds. Halfway through Carrier Wave right now, and I'm absolutely loving it. Every story is so instantly engaging and so intense. Hope this keeps up as this is my favorite horror reading experience since Wounds.
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# ? May 21, 2021 06:18 |
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I'm about two thirds of the way through There Is No Antimemetics Division and it is both captivating and unnerving. Your brain fills in the blanks with the most ghastly stuff you can summon. The sense of hopelessness currently engendered is quite something.
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# ? May 22, 2021 09:30 |
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Steinbeck wrote a lurid werewolf murder mystery. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/22/john-steinbecks-estate-urged-to-let-the-world-read-his-shunned-werewolf-novel
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# ? May 23, 2021 11:07 |
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Gilded Needles is definitely a bit of a slow burn - McDowell’s writing is characteristically wonderful so it’s still a delight to read - but about 2/3 of the way through the book there is a moment of explosive violence that comes out of no where. I had to read the passage a couple times because it’s just totally unexpected and vile and mean and darkly funny, just like some of those moments of violence in Blackwater. And now I’m all revved up for the final section of this book.
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# ? May 26, 2021 05:20 |
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Charlz Guybon posted:Steinbeck wrote a lurid werewolf murder mystery. Hopefully we'll get to read it some day. I can't imagine there's too many other werewolf novels written by Nobel Prize winning authors.
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# ? May 28, 2021 08:36 |
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ScootsMcSkirt posted:I'm looking for something a bit more lighthearted next so I'm going with either Skullcrack City cause that looks fun or maybe The Meg since im a child and love gruesome creature features The Meg is fun trash, totally artless, but if you want a slightly higher class of creature feature I've been enjoying the Shark series by Chris Jameson. There's three so far, each one is a standalone story of people getting attacked by sharks: Shark Island, Shark Beach, and Devil Sharks. The sharks are regular size so the terror's more immediate than a scifi Megalodon that can swallow submarines.
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# ? May 31, 2021 22:43 |
Bilirubin posted:Three stories into Gemma Files' new short story collection In That Endlessness, Our End, and this is some good poo poo. The Puppet Motel is just a great haunting story for our modern times. Best collection I have read so far since NALM Finished this the other day, its very solid from start to finish.
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 05:39 |
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I am currently reading the Five Nights at Freddy's trilogy for work. These books fuckin suck.
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 07:30 |
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Finished Blackwater, it’s an impressive work but not one I fully loved. Could have perhaps done with a few more horror moments, although they are quite effective when they do come along.
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# ? Jun 10, 2021 18:47 |
Bilirubin posted:Three stories into Gemma Files' new short story collection In That Endlessness, Our End, and this is some good poo poo. The Puppet Motel is just a great haunting story for our modern times. Best collection I have read so far since NALM The Kindle edition of this is up on the grimscribe site for pay-what-you-want. I just bought a copy for 5 bucks, and I feel kinda like I should have paid a bit more.
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# ? Jun 12, 2021 01:49 |
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I saw the word Ligotti in this itch.io indie horror game description and ran to this thread: Acephalicquote:This interactive experience is a companion piece to the album "Conspiration" (Conspiracy) by Un Regard Froid. The music and lyrics were inspired by the literary work of Thomas Ligotti. Acephalic further explores the themes of nihilism, cosmic indifference and social construct of productivity through the prism of the anti-Vitruvian man, the acephalic man.
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# ? Jun 12, 2021 02:31 |
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Read The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack and really enjoyed it. It's sort of a high fantasy/horror mashup. An industrial labor zombie wakes up and things only get better/worse from there. Highly recommended.
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# ? Jun 12, 2021 12:48 |
a foolish pianist posted:The Kindle edition of this is up on the grimscribe site for pay-what-you-want. I just bought a copy for 5 bucks, and I feel kinda like I should have paid a bit more. Thanks for the heads up! I just bought it myself, though uh I haven't gotten the book or any indication of how to get it. I'm excited to read it whenever it arrives though.
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# ? Jun 12, 2021 18:31 |
MockingQuantum posted:Thanks for the heads up! I just bought it myself, though uh I haven't gotten the book or any indication of how to get it. I'm excited to read it whenever it arrives though. I got mine via email about twenty minutes after I paid. I hope you’ve gotten yours by now!
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# ? Jun 1, 2024 04:51 |
a foolish pianist posted:I got mine via email about twenty minutes after I paid. I hope you’ve gotten yours by now! I did! It took a couple of hours but given the PayPal payment went straight to Padgett, and the download was just a Dropbox link, I'm guessing he may just fulfill them mostly manually in batches or something.
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