Goast posted:

figuring out how to make cheap low quality cuts of meat edible is one of the few things I'm actually good at

Relevant Tangent posted:

but enough about your dick

Bertrand Hustle posted:

Any recommendations on modern weird fiction in a Lovecraftian type of setting? Not necessarily Mythos stuff, but I'm not opposed. Eldritch horrors from beyond, secrets man was not meant to know, hosed up cults devoted to ancient and incomprehensible evils, that kind of thing.

I have a couple of collections of Cthulhu Mythos stories on my Kindle, but that's about it.

Bertrand Hustle posted:

Any recommendations on modern weird fiction in a Lovecraftian type of setting? Not necessarily Mythos stuff, but I'm not opposed. Eldritch horrors from beyond, secrets man was not meant to know, hosed up cults devoted to ancient and incomprehensible evils, that kind of thing.

I have a couple of collections of Cthulhu Mythos stories on my Kindle, but that's about it.

Eldercain posted:

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Sp.... Spongebob Squarepants?

snergle posted:

gaiman has a decent short story a study in emerald where the lovecraftian horrors are real and control victorian english society as the royal and noble familys.

My Lovely Horse posted:

Grant Morrison did practically the same thing in The Invisibles years before, but then pretty much every fantasy/horror writer has to the point where it's almost its own genre.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

And also real life, it turns out.

Lemniscate Blue posted:

For a really different take on Lovecraftian stuff, check out Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys.

A short story prequel is available to read here.


EDIT: VVVV Last page, champ. VVVV

snergle posted:

gaiman has a decent short story a study in emerald where the lovecraftian horrors are real and control victorian english society as the royal and noble familys.

90s Cringe Rock posted:

The elves are kind of cool and having to deal with them and their status as of the end of the book almost made me feel sorry for fictional Theresa May. Still glad they've got a less cartoonishly-evil PM now in the series.

FactsAreUseless posted:

Silverstein was just a huge weird stoner, I'd be amazed if he ever did anything worse than tons of LSD.

Spanish Manlove posted:

Was there a drawn out fight scene where the main character forces his friend to put on the Opera glasses?

My Lovely Horse posted:

Grant Morrison did practically the same thing in The Invisibles years before, but then pretty much every fantasy/horror writer has to the point where it's almost its own genre.

cnut posted:

Aston posted:

were they going at...swastika miles per hour?

DandyLion posted:

Its 45 but same thing

Syd Midnight posted:

Zack "Front Page" Parsons wrote an entire novel, Untitled Document, as a parody of the cthulhuian goth horror sci fi apocalypse genres then published it chapter-by-chapter as Front Page articles. I am not going to say that it is without significant flaws, but it really has its moments. The last half of the first chapter got me hooked.

A Major Fucker posted:

Is it legal to walk around in public boner? Does it depend on how embarrassed you look?

Mr Enderby posted:

De minimis non curat lex

Syd Midnight posted:

Zack "Front Page" Parsons wrote an entire novel, Untitled Document, as a parody of the cthulhuian goth horror sci fi apocalypse genres then published it chapter-by-chapter as Front Page articles. I am not going to say that it is without significant flaws, but it really has its moments. The last half of the first chapter got me hooked.

Dumb Lowtax posted:

Phlegmish posted:

Didn't he also write something about an inmate in a prison that is slowly being taken over by unspeakable, otherworldly beings? Don't know why I remember that after all these years. I liked it.

Baron von Eevl posted:

Jesus, I forgot about Untitled Document. His actual published novel, Liminal States is good but loving weird. It's about a cave in the desert that two assholes who hate each other find during the wild west era that basically causes you to respawn when you die, except occasionally an extra you also comes out. Then it's a noir where a bunch of clones of these characters are trying to keep their existence under wraps while hating each other, and then a dystopian future setting where the world is overrun with endless duplicates of these two shitheads. Also a transdimensional cicada monster is involved.

Big Mad Drongo posted:

CONEX Convict Connections

quote:

You were a covered in swastikas and pentagrams looking for a way out of W-Block with your friend. I was the guy in the cape made from yogurt tops stitched together. I shewed you to the hatch to X-Block. You dared threw it open and your compatriot stood nearest.

Can you remember what we saw? I do not. Only the vaguest sense of things moving. Things that should not be. Huge and old things. They took away your friend and left only pile of dust and hairs and broken shiv blades. Do you remember the smell? A perfumed oil and sweetly rotted meat. It still clings to the tiny hairs in my nostrils.

I want to go back there with you. It calls to me. Go back with me. I feel we can never be whole until we know what it is exactly waiting on the other side of the hatch to X-Block.

I will also jack you off if you want.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

We're slightly past the Mieville chat, but since it was brought up, here's the blog post stating he was an abuser/exploiter/stalker of women in the field:

http://bidisha-online.blogspot.com/2012/12/emotional-violence-and-social-power.html

It doesn't mention him by name any longer due to apparent legal threats, but here's a different blog confirming it's meant to be about Mieville.

https://pearwaldorf.tumblr.com/post/174000008577/content-warning-for-china-mieville-i-was

Also I'm one of those for whom PSS was my first (only) Mieville book and it was good but not enough so to make me seek out any of his other works

Big Mad Drongo posted:

CONEX Convict Connections

Sleeveless posted:

Wow, first Stephen King murdered John Lennon and now this. You just can't trust genre fiction authors.

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

Haschel Cedricson posted:

Kenning posted:

This was the first post in the thread and it loving owned.

Samovar posted:

Doc Brown's first name in Back to the Future is time spelled backwards.

SLOSifl posted:

Go back in time and learn to spell.

Samovar posted:

Fine, specifically it's a homophone for time spelled backwards

Amoeba102 posted:

Emit Brown is just what you'd do if you discovered time travel for real.

teen witch posted:

2.5 MegaKarens detected

tactlessbastard posted:

not great, not terrible

Barudak posted:

<man in control room who directly looked at the ceramics now has a blond bob haircut>

Syd Midnight posted:

He wrote marijuana fairy tales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVfE_-ZJAxc

I've never suspected that he was anything but awesome to hang out with

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

We're slightly past the Mieville chat, but since it was brought up, here's the blog post stating he was an abuser/exploiter/stalker of women in the field:

http://bidisha-online.blogspot.com/2012/12/emotional-violence-and-social-power.html

It doesn't mention him by name any longer due to apparent legal threats, but here's a different blog confirming it's meant to be about Mieville.

https://pearwaldorf.tumblr.com/post/174000008577/content-warning-for-china-mieville-i-was

Also I'm one of those for whom PSS was my first (only) Mieville book and it was good but not enough so to make me seek out any of his other works

Jedit posted:

Waiting for the "more like Pedo Street Station, huh?" to sweep the internet like a wave.

(I liked Mieville's run on Dial H. I'll practice death of the author with no regret.)