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Evfedu posted:Please report back after you've finished the book. I'll have to get back to reading it. I took a quick pause after that to read the first section of Swift to Chase because I couldn't handle another downer that big
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Re: Swift to Chase I have to go back and diagram that whole book. Make a Dramatis Personae and a timeline. Hell, someone should make a Barron Mythos Wiki; it would be easier. Re: John Langan Several posts back I asked for recommendations about John Langan since I wasn't convinced by the couple of short stories I had read that Langan was a good author. I was wrong. Langan is a good author. What changed my mind was Renfrew's Course and Mr. Gaunt. In Renfrew's Course Langan deftly leads the reader through a series of flashbacks and visions to a satisfying end. The Mythos element is just hinted at until the climax where it waits, passive like entropy. The Mythos antagonist felt less like a Lovecraft creation and more like somebeing out of Needful Things or Storm of the Century. Regardless, it was well crafted. Mr. Gaunt is Langan's love letter to Henry James (Turn of the Screw) and written very closely in his style. The Mythos element is at face value a bit silly but this only proves Langan's skill because the atmosphere he weaves in his almost meandering tale (Jamesian style) makes the menace sinister and macabre. I recommend both stories.
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Been on a cosmic horror kick lately, read: The Rim of Morning by William Sloane The Fisherman by John Langan A Clark Ashton Smith collection Liked them all. Rim of Morning is two novels, very well written but rather tame by today's standards. Smith is a contemporary of Lovecraft and writes in that same style but had me reaching for a dictionary a lot. Fisherman came out this year and I liked it. Probably more in yalls wheelhouse. A little slow going at first but genuinely creepy. I'd recommend them all. King is Yellow is next on the docket.
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Remember that the King in Yellow stories are like proto-cosmic horror, so it's probably going to seem incredibly tame.
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They've got suicide booths though, so that's pretty great.
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Evfedu posted:Please report back after you've finished the book. I'm not that poster, but I just read this so whatever. I read Worlds of Hurt, but I made the mistake? of reading the title story, World of Hurt, first, because the premise of that was what sold me on the collection. I really enjoyed it, and had hoped that the rest of the collection would be as awesome. I enjoyed it specifically because of the malevolent god and its heaven around which the story revolves. Instead of more stories about that, the rest of the stories are about the Misbegotten, which are a race of characters interesting enough to fill a White Wolf sourcebook. The author apparently really loves them. The other stories aren't bad, exactly, they're well written, they're just so not what I was after.
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just read actual gnostic texts if you want more yaldabaoth
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Skyscraper posted:I'm not that poster, but I just read this so whatever. Look I'm only halfway through the second story but I was sold the minute Jesus climbed down off his cross
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Look I'm only halfway through the second story but I was sold the minute Jesus climbed down off his cross Also a really solid moment! I was hoping for more of that too.
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Anyone read Donald Tyson's Necronomicon and Alhazred? I'm reading the latter and it's pretty good so far, but am I missing out if I haven't read Necronomicon first?
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Oh hey I forgot to post after I finished the third story in Worlds of Hurt That poo poo was good. Not as good a the stigmata dude story tho. On to the title track
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can y'all recommend me some horror that also has a lot to do with family? also, anything with a good dark sense of humor. Thank.
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The Blackwater series by Michael McDowell Has a good bit of dark humor in it and you follow a family in Alabama over the course of about fifty years as weird poo poo goes down.
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Someone mentioned this short story in either this or the horror thread. Anyway I was curious and it looks like the author has it free on his website. I really enjoyed it. 400 Boys by Marc Laidlaw. http://www.marclaidlaw.com/online-fiction/400-boys/
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brian evenson's a collapse of horses made NPR's 'best of 2016' list and it is very good, especially if you like aickman
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I just finished Worlds of Hurt and now I want more like that also the title story crushed me completely
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I really liked his novellas too, Without Purpose, Without Pity and Whom The Gods Would Destroy.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:brian evenson's a collapse of horses made NPR's 'best of 2016' list and it is very good, especially if you like aickman I read this New Year's weekend. It's good, but I didn't enjoy it quite as much as Windeye. They're both top-tier collections, though.
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hopterque posted:I really liked his novellas too, Without Purpose, Without Pity and Whom The Gods Would Destroy. Are those the ones in the compilation because I read that
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Are those the ones in the compilation because I read that Nope, separate novellas not related to the Misbegotten stuff. They are well worth reading.
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I too enjoyed Worlds of Hurt. Does he have more work about the uncaring god/misbegotten stuff?
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Geokinesis posted:I too enjoyed Worlds of Hurt. Not as of yet to my understanding. He said - four or five years ago, maybe more - that he was working on more Misbegotten stuff, and from memory implied he had an actual narrative arc in mind for the world, but I don't think anything's been forthcoming. For Whom the Gods Must Destroy and Without Purpose, Without Pity are really good. It's much more straight up Lovecraft - he's done some others that are like that, too, though I can't remember the names, one was about music encoding something from the universe's core that drove people insane - and while Hodge doesn't do that that often when he does he does it really loving well. Iirc a foilow-up to Without Purpose was also planned at some point. Edit: I just checked his website and most of 2016 was a nothing for Hodge's productivity because he had a 'temporarily crippling accident'. He seems revitalised and optimistic now, though. Neurosis fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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I see he's recommending the Kickstarted book The Lost Citadel, in which he did a novelette. Describes it as 'Walking Dead invades Middle Earth'. Sounds like it might be appealing - I've always liked dark fantasy horror because of the Gothic feel it often invokes. is it worth picking up, anyone? Edit: I'm dumb, it's not out yet. Neurosis fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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Neurosis posted:Edit: I just checked his website and most of 2016 was a nothing for Hodge's productivity because he had a 'temporarily crippling accident'. He seems revitalised and optimistic now, though. Is there something about horror authors and some sort of crippling accident/major medical trauma? I know life happens, but drat. Also why is Worlds of Hurt not available in a dead tree edition?
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:I just finished Worlds of Hurt and now I want more like that also the title story crushed me completely motherfuckin  finished it this morning and god drat did some parts really stick. Very good, though.
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Also, 'Without Purpose, Without Pity' is probably one of my favorite titles for a book/movie/game, period.
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GrandpaPants posted:Also why is Worlds of Hurt not available in a dead tree edition? The title novella is, albeit only as a signed, limited edition. You can either buy it direct from Earthling Publications, or look around on eBay and/or Abebooks for a cheaper copy.
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Neurosis posted:I see he's recommending the Kickstarted book The Lost Citadel, in which he did a novelette. Describes it as 'Walking Dead invades Middle Earth'. Sounds like it might be appealing - I've always liked dark fantasy horror because of the Gothic feel it often invokes. is it worth picking up, anyone? Double-posting because I finished this last night. It's pretty good. The author selection is second-to-none. Hodge's story is, not surprisingly, one of the best.
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Slackerish posted:can y'all recommend me some horror that also has a lot to do with family? also, anything with a good dark sense of humor. Thank. For the former, practically anything by John Ajvide Lindqvist but especially Handling the Undead and Harbour.
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Ornamented Death posted:Double-posting because I finished this last night. It's pretty good. The author selection is second-to-none. Hodge's story is, not surprisingly, one of the best. Where'd you get it?
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Neurosis posted:Where'd you get it? I backed the Kickstarter, so I got the ebook and hardcover late last year. Edit: In other Brian Hodge news, he has a new short novel out; it's a tie-in for some RPG, though which one isn't immediately clear from that link. He also has a new novella coming out this year, titled I'll Bring You the Birds From Out of the Sky. It's being published by Cemetery Dance, so I imagine it'll be an edition of somewhere between 500 and 1000 copies, with an ebook likely following sometime later. Ornamented Death fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Jan 16, 2017 |
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Ornamented Death posted:Double-posting because I finished this last night. It's pretty good. The author selection is second-to-none. Hodge's story is, not surprisingly, one of the best. Maybe I'm missing something obvious but I'm finding it frustratingly difficult to find this to buy. I want to give them my loving money!
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Neurosis posted:Maybe I'm missing something obvious but I'm finding it frustratingly difficult to find this to buy. I want to give them my loving money! I asked the publisher when it goes on sale. I'll update you once I hear back.
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a foolish pianist posted:I read this New Year's weekend. It's good, but I didn't enjoy it quite as much as Windeye. They're both top-tier collections, though. have you read fugue state? how does it compare to windeye and collapse?
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Ornamented Death posted:I asked the publisher when it goes on sale. I'll update you once I hear back. Thanks!
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Thanks for the Brian Hodge spam this page, I got World of Hurt and drat... I'm now looking into more of his stuff. Lost Citadel looks good too so hopefully they get it out there for non-backers soon.
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That RPG tie-in book I linked to is for Mummy: The Curse if anyone cares. I generally do not buy licensed stuff, but here's what Brian said about it on his Facebook page:Brian Hodge posted:When my back was turned this weekend, they sneaked out my newest novel. :-) This is the one I referred to last year as the seven-week novel … but it totally comes off like I wrote it in at least eight-and-a-half weeks.
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The Weight of the Dead, one of Hodge's short stories is free on Tor, or is 99 cents and DRM free on kindle. Not quite cosmic horror but it probably qualifies as a weird tale.
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