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Just bought Burnt Black Suns: A Collection of Weird Tales and Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume One as I am suddenly interested in some dark gothic horror tales. Only other stuff I've read is Lovecraft and Poe, if that counts. Any other good collection recommendations?
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Aug 26, 2014 02:19
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thehomemaster posted:Any other good collection recommendations? I felt Nightingale Songs was the better Strantzas collection, though Burnt Black Suns is still a good book. If you liked Lovecraft, I'd recommend picking up the two Book of Cthulhu anthologies, and from there check out any of the authors that stick out in your mind.
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Aug 26, 2014 03:22
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thehomemaster posted:Just bought Burnt Black Suns: A Collection of Weird Tales and Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume One as I am suddenly interested in some dark gothic horror tales. Only other stuff I've read is Lovecraft and Poe, if that counts. Since you're asking  , I have a story in a new cosmic horror anthology titled Cthulhu Lives!, which launches today. Joshi liked the book enough to put his name to an afterword.
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Aug 26, 2014 12:58
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Amazon keeps telling me I should read Richard Gavin. How good are his short stories?
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Aug 27, 2014 12:08
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Neurosis posted:Amazon keeps telling me I should read Richard Gavin. How good are his short stories? Very.
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Aug 27, 2014 13:55
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Ornamented Death posted:Very. Sold.
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Aug 27, 2014 16:26
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Ornamented Death posted:I felt Nightingale Songs was the better Strantzas collection, though Burnt Black Suns is still a good book. Looked at my bookshelf and saw the 1st Book of Cthulhu so I'm sorted already!
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Aug 28, 2014 02:11
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So has any one read Delta Green: Tales From the Failed Anatomies? I've been reading though it since I backed in on Kickstarter and it might be easy to dismiss as just game fiction but it's really good. It's given me one of my favorite lines about cosmic horror, or the entities that have come to represent the Cthulhu Mythos.Robin D. Law posted:You Malign≠ Indifferent, drat does that sum it really nice in mind.
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Sep 14, 2014 06:37
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I love this thread. Finished Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo not too long ago, and just loaded up on The Void by Brett J. Talley as well as some Laird Barron stuff.
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Sep 14, 2014 12:33
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Nuclear Tourist posted:I love this thread. Finished Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo not too long ago, and just loaded up on The Void by Brett J. Talley as well as some Laird Barron stuff. I found The Void to be derivative and boring, which disappointed me because That Which Should Not Be was very good.
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Sep 14, 2014 16:24
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To be fair, the theme and setting appears to be right up my alley, which usually means that I'm willing to be very forgiving with a lot of the other stuff.
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Sep 14, 2014 17:48
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Nuclear Tourist posted:To be fair, the theme and setting appears to be right up my alley, which usually means that I'm willing to be very forgiving with a lot of the other stuff. please let us know what you think once you're done
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Sep 14, 2014 21:38
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Ghostwoods posted:Declare is a slow burn, sure, but I found it beautiful, tantalising, and engrossing. If it's not your sort of thing then that's fine, but I can't accept that it needs editing. I had a look at the Void's Amazon sample though, and yes, the writing does seem ham-fisted. It's a lot less dire than 99% of stuff on the Kindle store, but that's not exactly a recommendation nowadays. I just re-read Declare. I first read it a few years back upon recommendations from this very forum. I thought it was a bore when I read it first. I don't know what I was thinking. What a great novel. Helps to have a few Wikipedia tabs open while reading.
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Sep 15, 2014 03:50
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I have a .mobi file, "The Complete Works of HP Lovecraft" that is just over a meg. I don't know if it counts as files, as I have no recollection of where I even got it. Would it be okay to post it here, or would it be frowned upon? It loads up on a kindle perfectly. Oh, one other thing, if it is cool to put up, does anyone know a good place to host it? AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Sep 15, 2014 |
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Sep 15, 2014 18:51
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Is it from http://cthulhuchick.com/free-complete-lovecraft-ebook-nook-kindle/ ?
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Sep 15, 2014 21:39
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Yep. Never mind, but it's worth downloading if anyone hasn't already.
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Sep 15, 2014 21:43
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Just got done with "A Night in the Lonesome October" by Roger Zelazny. It was a fun read and well worth getting from your local library. I don't have any interest in reading it again but he does spin a good tale. It has loads of Lovecraftian elements but isn't a particularly scary story. It's more humorous than anything. Thanks for the recommendation, I'm glad I read it.
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Sep 15, 2014 22:05
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AFewBricksShy posted:I have a .mobi file, "The Complete Works of HP Lovecraft" that is just over a meg. I don't know if it counts as files, as I have no recollection of where I even got it.
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Sep 17, 2014 03:25
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immolationsex posted:Oh jesus christ man, DON'T. I promise you you will regret it if you do. Just finished it. Yeah, it wasn't that good. I quite liked some of the dream/nightmare sequences which at times almost reminded me of Kubrick's 2001. The way Omega Sector and the planet Anubis were described were pretty awesome as well. But there wasn't quite enough there to make me forgive the rather flat characterization, which is something that I tend to have a high tolerance for if the book nails the atmosphere. I also have a hard time not rolling my eyes whenever the author's idea of space travel basically amounts to "Take US Navy, (including nautical terms) transplant into space. Done." I don't think I disliked it quite as much as you did, but it definitely wasn't en par with Blindsight, Ship of Fools, Hull Zero Three et al in terms of space horror.
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Sep 17, 2014 20:57
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Thomas Ligotti is one of my three favorite authors of all time. If you are a Lovecraft fan, a Poe fan, or a fan of the existentialists, you should go buy digital editions of his work. My Work Is Not Yet Done is a wonderful horror and revenge tale that takes on corporate America better than any cyberpunk author ever did. Good starting place.
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Sep 18, 2014 23:22
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Dead Sea was some great pulp on a higher level than I expected, thanks for the recommends. I didn't quite expect the "everything and the kitchen sink kills someone" approach which seemed to make it drag out a bit longer than I'd have liked (especially at the end as everyone is snipped off abruptly which seems to not do much but avoid a complicated epilogue) however, it was a mostly well-written (if poorly edited in kindle) novel which tied off all of the loose ends fairly snappily right when I thought it was in danger of flailing out of control.
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Sep 19, 2014 04:42
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Magic Lamp posted:So I've always been wanting to try out some Lovecraft and recently picked up a book containing a collection of his works: If you read five, read: The Music of Erich Zann The Rats in the Walls The Colour out of Space Nyarlathotep The Call of Cthulhu
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Sep 19, 2014 16:27
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Sobatchja Morda posted:If you read five, read: I recommend The Outsider whole heartedly.
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Sep 20, 2014 13:41
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I'm generally more of a fan of what other people did with Lovecraft's ideas, than Lovecraft's actual writing, but the Music of Eric Zann and The Colour out of Space are pretty amazing.
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Sep 20, 2014 13:45
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coyo7e posted:Dead Sea was some great pulp on a higher level than I expected, thanks for the recommends. I didn't quite expect the "everything and the kitchen sink kills someone" approach which seemed to make it drag out a bit longer than I'd have liked (especially at the end as everyone is snipped off abruptly which seems to not do much but avoid a complicated epilogue) however, it was a mostly well-written (if poorly edited in kindle) novel which tied off all of the loose ends fairly snappily right when I thought it was in danger of flailing out of control. I found the repeated descriptions of the water and fog pretty obnoxious after the 100th repeat. Could have cut 200 pages and made a better book. I will say that The Hive by the same author is much better and worth a read. It's essentially At the Mountains of Madness extended edition.
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Sep 20, 2014 14:42
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What's the short story where they find out if you die you get reincarnated on another planet and spend your life their screaming in alien insanity ? Probably Lovecraft but not positive.
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Sep 20, 2014 19:55
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God Of Paradise posted:I recommend The Outsider whole heartedly. The Shadow out of Time is also nice and weird. A lot of the lovecraft tales are available on librivox as public domain audiobooks, some of the narrators are excellent.
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Sep 20, 2014 20:12
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Hughlander posted:What's the short story where they find out if you die you get reincarnated on another planet and spend your life their screaming in alien insanity ? Probably Lovecraft but not positive. "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" has a loosely similar theme but probably not exactly what you're referring to.
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Sep 20, 2014 21:18
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Nuclear Tourist posted:Blindsight Aspies on a Plane. Also, a great sleeping aid. Dr. Benway fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Sep 22, 2014 |
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Sep 22, 2014 05:39
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The short story called Come and Go Mad is a good one by Lovecraft. Shockingly, no racism in it either!
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Sep 22, 2014 12:02
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Hughlander posted:What's the short story where they find out if you die you get reincarnated on another planet and spend your life their screaming in alien insanity ? Probably Lovecraft but not positive. Not sure. But I believe you are thinking of Azathoth, the idiot god. It is a red star aimlessly devouring all intelligence it comes near in the galaxy. It is only soothed by high pitched atonal whistles. A snippet of a story called Azathoth was written by Lovecraft. That's not what I'm talking about. I forget the story's name where Azathoth is featured.
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Sep 22, 2014 12:39
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Hughlander posted:What's the short story where they find out if you die you get reincarnated on another planet and spend your life their screaming in alien insanity ? Probably Lovecraft but not positive. Does it have an alien cat goddess/planet? (Not a nice story. Saw it on here at some point.)
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Sep 24, 2014 23:44
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Just read A Colder War in the book of cthulhu, and found I'd already read it at some point. Something I caught this time that somehow (maybe I was drunk last time) I didn't catch before, is that the main character is fairly sure he's dead and existing inside cthulhu's mind as a simulation. If so, when did it happen? Must have been around when he was getting interrogated and that stopped and he was rushed to the masada holdout? It's just weird that there's no break in the narrative or anything. Did I miss something else?
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Sep 26, 2014 17:43
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redreader posted:Just read A Colder War in the book of cthulhu, and found I'd already read it at some point. Something I caught this time that somehow (maybe I was drunk last time) I didn't catch before, is that the main character is fairly sure he's dead and existing inside cthulhu's mind as a simulation. He's not sure of that, that's his fear about what happens to those who didn't make it through the gate. They don't just get eaten.
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Sep 26, 2014 19:11
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A Colder War is one of the only times I've enjoyed a non-Lovecraft Cthulhu story. The ending has this funny, like, You Lose computer game screen feel to it.
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Sep 26, 2014 22:00
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Phanatic posted:He's not sure of that, that's his fear about what happens to those who didn't make it through the gate. They don't just get eaten. He doesn't commit suicide specifically because he suspects that if he does, an alternate life for him will appear (because he's a simulation) that might be worse than this one.
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Sep 26, 2014 22:29
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A Colder War is probably one of my favorite horror novellas. Stross did an excellent job of blending a spy thriller with things humanity shouldn't be loving around with. It's one of those stories I just have to pull out and reread at least once a year. I picked up The Imago Sequence for $2 on Amazon yesterday (don't know if it's still on sale) and just got through reading Procession of the Black Sloth. I recognize it as a descent into hell especially the part where his punishment is to gouge his eyes out as result of a lifetime of what is essentially sanctioned voyeurism but I'm not getting the point of the old ladies' club. Is it something that makes more sense if you have some background knowledge of Buddhism?
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Sep 26, 2014 22:39
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Peztopiary posted:Does it have an alien cat goddess/planet? (Not a nice story. Saw it on here at some point.) 
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Sep 28, 2014 05:58
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What Laird Barron collection would you guys recommend
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Sep 28, 2014 07:15
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Peztopiary posted:Does it have an alien cat goddess/planet? (Not a nice story. Saw it on here at some point.) That was...weird. Then again, I cannot, for a single second, believe that anything based on a cat would only harm those who are evil. Cats are fantastic, but they are little furry psychopaths. Just imagine how cute that hell-planet would look hiding in a box!
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