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I never read either of them, because I read Mr shivers
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End Of Worlds posted:the Mr shivers fyad thread is one of the finest cultural objects this forum has produced and represents, albeit indirectly, Bennett's greatest contribution to the world of letters link? i want to read this
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Sep 4, 2016 12:25
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Both "City of" books are good and cool. I didn't know SA had molested the author of those books. Interesting.
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Sep 4, 2016 17:32
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I read Mr Shivers having heard all the bad reviews and thought it was ok. Not great but not bad, lots of first novel problems going on but its not horrible. Not read any more of his books yet but I would.
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Sep 4, 2016 17:37
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American Elsewhere was quite good I thought. City of Stairs was great, the sequel is worth reading then I take it?
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Sep 5, 2016 08:28
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Hate Fibration posted:American Elsewhere was quite good I thought. City of Stairs was great, the sequel is worth reading then I take it?
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Sep 5, 2016 11:19
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Neurosis posted:link? i want to read this
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Sep 6, 2016 16:56
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Skyscraper posted:Seconding this. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3249773&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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Sep 6, 2016 18:41
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Interesting article on Lovecraft's nonfiction essay commissioned by Houdini https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/16/hp-lovecraft-harry-houdini-manuscript-cancer-superstition-memorabilia quote:Lost HP Lovecraft work commissioned by Houdini escapes shackles of history
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Sep 8, 2016 23:24
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Peztopiary posted:I'd never heard of Anders Fager, he's a Swedish mythos writer. Being Swedish, most of his work isn't available in English. The only story I could find that is translated, The Furies From Boras is really well written. There's a Tor article about the story as well, if you like that kind of thing. Thank you very much for recommending this. Fager is good. Know if his other books have been translated into English and where I can get my hands on them? Evidently he also made a Lovecraftian related roleplaying game called "The Cult's World" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Fager quote:Anders Fager (born in Stockholm 1964) is a Swedish horror writer. After a career as an army officer and game designer he made his debut in 2009 with the short story collection Swedish Cults (Svenska kulter) that received a most favourable review in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter[1] and launched Fager's career as full-time writer. Fager writes modern urban horror in a style he has repeatedly described as ”what would happen if James Ellroy took on H.P. Lovecraft”. Set in present-day Sweden, his interconnected stories form a modern part of the Cthulhu mythos with entities such as Dagon and Hastur making appearances. Fager's fictional world, known as "The Cult's World", has been made into a role playing game and is also currently being turned into a graphic novel and a theartrical play. Cyaegha is available here: http://www.freewebs.com/batglynn/cyaegha.htm quote:(Anders Fager) Bibliography I forgot which one of you recommended "Black Hill" by Orrin Grey. Too short but not bad. I enjoyed it. Free pdf : http://www.strixpublishing.com/black-hill/ Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Sep 10, 2016 |
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Sep 10, 2016 01:19
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Can't remember if it's been mentioned, but I'm about half way through with The Amulet. It's pretty entertaining so far. Nice little mash-up between Dashiell Hammett and HPL. I'll probably check out the other two books after I finish this.
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Sep 19, 2016 16:30
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Dr. Benway posted:Can't remember if it's been mentioned, but I'm about half way through with The Amulet. It's pretty entertaining so far. Nice little mash-up between Dashiell Hammett and HPL. I'll probably check out the other two books after I finish this. That sounds rad, I'd be interested to hear what you think when you finish it.
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Sep 19, 2016 18:58
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Meikle is a pretty fun horror author. He's versatile enough to handle different types of horror well, though he's best at cosmic horror. Also check out The Dunfield Terror and/or The Plasm.
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Sep 19, 2016 19:06
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Not a book, but Alexis Kennedy (the writer for the text adventure games Fallen London and Sunless Sea) has a prototype up for an adventure game called Cultist Simulator: http://weatherfactory.biz/cultist-simulator/ Kennedy's stuff is great Dunsany/early Lovecraft fantasy, on the off chance that anyone here hasn't heard of him.
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Sep 22, 2016 20:58
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^ An hour of my life just blew by fiddling around with this. Daveski posted:That sounds rad, I'd be interested to hear what you think when you finish it. I was finally able to finish it last night. Overall, it was really entertaining. Perhaps the Dashiell Hammett comment was being a little generous, but definitely has that noir detective feel to it. I don't now if it was intentional or if it was just me, but I felt like there were a couple of nudges to Big Trouble In Little China and Hellboy around the climax. It kind of brought me back to the feeling I had when I first picked up The Atrocity Archives and Jennifer Morgue. Thumbs up.
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Sep 23, 2016 20:41
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Someone many pages back recommended EARTHWORM GODS and I've been enjoying it so far, so thank you.
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Sep 26, 2016 10:32
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I'm curious if anyone here as some suggestions for more traditional horror. I mostly read horror in the weird fiction vein (so Laird Barron, the Year's Best Weird Fiction, etc.), but it starts getting a bit samey after awhile. Any good books on more traditional fair (werewolves, vampires, aliens, etc.), that isn't too influenced by urban fantasy/paranormal romance (and that isn't Stephen King. I've read 'Salem's Lot and loved it but want something by a different author.). Or, for that matter, anything with a strong conspiracy theory bent to it, because I've been reading about things like Project Monarch and Dulche base and these sound like great settings for a horror tale.
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Sep 26, 2016 21:22
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Reflections85 posted:I'm curious if anyone here as some suggestions for more traditional horror. I mostly read horror in the weird fiction vein (so Laird Barron, the Year's Best Weird Fiction, etc.), but it starts getting a bit samey after awhile. Any good books on more traditional fair (werewolves, vampires, aliens, etc.), that isn't too influenced by urban fantasy/paranormal romance (and that isn't Stephen King. I've read 'Salem's Lot and loved it but want something by a different author.). Enter, Night by Michael Rowe and Lights Out by Nate Southard are both great vampire stories. Scott Thomas has done a number of excellent collections of ghost stories. Try Urn and Willow. William Meikle and Michael McBride both write great monster stories of various kinds.
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Sep 26, 2016 23:02
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Ornamented Death posted:Enter, Night by Michael Rowe and Lights Out by Nate Southard are both great vampire stories.
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Sep 27, 2016 08:09
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On the subject of general horror (even though this may not qualify), has anybody read Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones? I'm looking for something with werewolf themes that doesn't make me want to gouge my brain out with a spoon.
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Sep 27, 2016 17:41
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I haven't read Mongrels, but everything I have read by Jones has been excellent.
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Sep 27, 2016 17:49
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MockingQuantum posted:On the subject of general horror (even though this may not qualify), has anybody read Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones? I'm looking for something with werewolf themes that doesn't make me want to gouge my brain out with a spoon. I read and enjoyed Mongrels, but wouldn't call it horror.
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Sep 27, 2016 18:31
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Ben Nevis posted:I read and enjoyed Mongrels, but wouldn't call it horror. Ah good to know. One blurb I read made it sound like it was a big element of the book, and I know Jones has written horror in the past. Still probably going to check it out.
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Sep 27, 2016 18:35
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Reflections85 posted:I'm curious if anyone here as some suggestions for more traditional horror. I mostly read horror in the weird fiction vein (so Laird Barron, the Year's Best Weird Fiction, etc.), but it starts getting a bit samey after awhile. Any good books on more traditional fair (werewolves, vampires, aliens, etc.), that isn't too influenced by urban fantasy/paranormal romance (and that isn't Stephen King. I've read 'Salem's Lot and loved it but want something by a different author.). It doesn't feature a government conspiracy and it doesn't include a classic monster like a werewolf or a vampire, but "The Ruins" by Scott Smith is a twisted and unusual take on the horror genre. It was apparently turned into a very poorly reviewed film which I haven't seen but the book is an enjoyably dark and twisted page turner that features an unusual and bizarre situation. Smith does a good job of utilizing the realistic traumas of being stuck in the characters situation (the natural body horror of sustaining physical injuries without advanced medical care, fragile human relationships coming apart under pressure, people reacting in terrible but believable ways to danger or imminent death, the frustration of having to rely on unreliable people etc.) with some very bizarre supernatural horror elements. It's a grim story and best entered without much foreknowledge of the plot, which mostly serves to deliver a bunch of engaging horror set-pieces.
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Sep 27, 2016 22:07
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Reflections85 posted:I'm curious if anyone here as some suggestions for more traditional horror. I mostly read horror in the weird fiction vein (so Laird Barron, the Year's Best Weird Fiction, etc.), but it starts getting a bit samey after awhile. Any good books on more traditional fair (werewolves, vampires, aliens, etc.), that isn't too influenced by urban fantasy/paranormal romance (and that isn't Stephen King. I've read 'Salem's Lot and loved it but want something by a different author.). Joe Hill's NOS4A2 is pretty good. As is Hex, which should also hit the conspiracy angle.
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Helsing posted:It doesn't feature a government conspiracy and it doesn't include a classic monster like a werewolf or a vampire, but "The Ruins" by Scott Smith is a twisted and unusual take on the horror genre. It was apparently turned into a very poorly reviewed film which I haven't seen but the book is an enjoyably dark and twisted page turner that features an unusual and bizarre situation. Smith does a good job of utilizing the realistic traumas of being stuck in the characters situation (the natural body horror of sustaining physical injuries without advanced medical care, fragile human relationships coming apart under pressure, people reacting in terrible but believable ways to danger or imminent death, the frustration of having to rely on unreliable people etc.) with some very bizarre supernatural horror elements. It's a grim story and best entered without much foreknowledge of the plot, which mostly serves to deliver a bunch of engaging horror set-pieces. I hope you enjoy entire paragraphs about making GBS threads and pissing!
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Phanatic posted:Joe Hill's NOS4A2 is pretty good. Yeah I can second this. I mean it's really Stephen Kingish, but it's not technically Stephen King, even though it's his son and apparently they look identical. It's a good horror yarn.
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Sep 28, 2016 09:42
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Joe Hill's short story collections are pretty good.
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Sep 28, 2016 16:23
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Fire Safety Doug posted:Joe Hill's short story collections are pretty good. 20th Century Ghosts is a great collection, but much like later King collections, the actual horror short stories are few and far between. For example, probably the most popular story from the collection, "Pop Art," is absolutely not a horror story.
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Reflections85 posted:I'm curious if anyone here as some suggestions for more traditional horror. I mostly read horror in the weird fiction vein (so Laird Barron, the Year's Best Weird Fiction, etc.), but it starts getting a bit samey after awhile. Any good books on more traditional fair (werewolves, vampires, aliens, etc.), that isn't too influenced by urban fantasy/paranormal romance (and that isn't Stephen King. I've read 'Salem's Lot and loved it but want something by a different author.). Anything you recommend in Year's Best Weird Fiction?
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Sep 28, 2016 18:23
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Helical Nightmares posted:Anything you recommend in Year's Best Weird Fiction? Michael Wehunt's story is good.
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Sep 28, 2016 21:02
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ravenkult posted:I hope you enjoy entire paragraphs about making GBS threads and pissing! Like I said, natural body horror.
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Sep 28, 2016 21:58
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Have you guys read The Fisherman by John Langan? Cause if you haven't you should.
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Sep 29, 2016 05:01
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ravenkult posted:Michael Wehunt's story is good. On that note, Michael Wehunt's collection of short stories "Greener Pastures" was really great.
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Sep 29, 2016 06:31
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pixelbaron posted:On that note, Michael Wehunt's collection of short stories "Greener Pastures" was really great. Seconding this.
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Sep 29, 2016 07:43
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pixelbaron posted:On that note, Michael Wehunt's collection of short stories "Greener Pastures" was really great. It's free on Kindle Unlimited, too! In other news, just finished Occultation and it may have some of my favorite Barron stories to date (though now I kinda want to re-read The Beautiful Thing etc). Really dug The Broadsword, Strappado, --30--... heck most of them. The Lagerstatte didn't really land for me, though I think its because I struggle with Barron's occasional refusal to use quotation marks. That said, I think I have Barron fatigue... I followed Imago Sequence pretty quickly with Occultation, and it definitely means seeing a lot of the same themes over and over. Not intended as a criticism of Barron, I tend to find that's the case with any short story collection. Gonna have to shift to something else for a bit. In the meantime, though, my wife is interested in reading some Barron, but doesn't really have the time on her hands to read through all the collections. I think the stuff she'd enjoy the most are the Old Leech stories. Anybody have a list handy of the stories that are part of of the Old Leech "mythos"? Gonna comb back through the collections to see if I can remember which ones reference Old Leech or the children or what have you. I know there's a couple that definitely feel like Old Leech stories even if none of it is directly referenced, though.
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As a rule of thumb I think his "Old Leech Cycle" is The Croning, Occultation, The Beautiful Thing that Awaits Us All, and that Japanese mafia one. I've been meaning to put together a "Baalphegar Cycle" vs "Old Leech Cycle", so I'll work on one this weekend and be happy to debate people's choices.
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Sep 30, 2016 18:51
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Ornamented Death posted:20th Century Ghosts is a great collection, but much like later King collections, the actual horror short stories are few and far between. For example, probably the most popular story from the collection, "Pop Art," is absolutely not a horror story. I'll admit it's been a few years since I read them. But they should work for anyone who likes Papa King as well.
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Also, what's everyone's take on Matthew Bartlett? I've tried getting into his stuff but I just find the writing style off-putting.
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Helical Nightmares posted:As a rule of thumb I think his "Old Leech Cycle" is The Croning, Occultation, The Beautiful Thing that Awaits Us All, and that Japanese mafia one. There are some which are in the same world but don't touch on the Children themselves. The two stories with that immortal magician. I can't remember the names to put to all the Old Leech stories. He's said before he's toying around with a novel sequel to The Croning which would be... Well, it'd have to have more sci-fi elements if he intends to progress a broader plot, I guess. Mysterium Tremendum is probably my favourite Old Leech story. I must be forgetting something about the Japanese mafia story, I don't remember anything indicating that was in Old Leech continuity.
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