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And now you can VOTE for what book the club should read next month!
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Sep 25, 2023 04:42
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voted tingler
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Sep 25, 2023 04:49
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Good Citizen posted:voted tingler Owns, though.
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Count Thrashula posted:Right now I'm reading The Black Farm. If you're into Dark Souls/Bloodborne bleak religio-weirdness, it'll be up your alley. A couple of the creature designs have really stuck with me in my imagination. Based on this I had a break from the westerns & read Black Farm, it's a bloody good read. I've just started the sequel & it seems more of the same so things are looking good so far.
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Just finished reading Red Rabbit which is kinda like a western version of Between Two Fires. Not exactly a 5 star book but it really scratched that itch for a bit
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Speaking of, if people are looking for good medieval stuff I just finished Hard to be a God and it was fantastic. Not exactly horror except in a "horror of man" kind of way, but definitely has that vibe
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Sinbad's Sex Tape posted:Just finished reading Red Rabbit which is kinda like a western version of Between Two Fires. Not exactly a 5 star book but it really scratched that itch for a bit You might want to be more specific about the author. Red Rabbit is the title of one of Tom Clancy's later, very bad books.
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Sep 26, 2023 10:35
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Sorry it’s Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian. It just came out this month
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Jordan Peele’s putting out an anthology of black horror, that sounds good
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I was hoping to like Sycorax’s Daughters more so I’ll def check this out
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Sinbad's Sex Tape posted:Sorry it’s Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian. It just came out this month Just started reading this; so far, so good!
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Started in on The Cipher by Kathe Koja and already it's brilliant. Real creepiness - the Fun Hole itself but also the creepy sex - and awful relationships between awful people. Love the embittered, self-pitying, former english student prose-turned-crustpunk voice of the narrator, I think this is what I wanted from the Johnny Truant bits in House of Leaves.
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The Cipher is one of maybe five books in my life that I’ve had to put down unfinished, and it’s the only one where that DNF is a compliment. I absolutely could not endure it. A masterpiece.
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GhastlyBizness posted:Started in on The Cipher by Kathe Koja and already it's brilliant. Real creepiness - the Fun Hole itself but also the creepy sex - and awful relationships between awful people. Love the embittered, self-pitying, former english student prose-turned-crustpunk voice of the narrator, I think this is what I wanted from the Johnny Truant bits in House of Leaves. It's insanely good!!! I am constantly recommending it
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I'm extremely dense so I'm sure I got none of the themes or subtext in The Cipher but it did do a good job at making me feel grimy and unsettled.
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Thread search SEO is terrible for a name like "FOUND" so apologies if this was covered earlier I read FOUND: An anthology of found footage horror (https://www.amazon.com/FOUND-anthology-footage-horror-stories/dp/0648731529) recently because, like the editors, found footage movies are some of my favorite and I really like stories that take a similar approach in print. This anthology was a mixed bag, but none of the stories overstayed their welcome and a couple stuck with me for a while: Accidents, of a Sort and Green Magnetic Tape
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General Battuta posted:It's insanely good!!! I am constantly recommending it Really? Ugh.... I tried so hard to get into it. That was a DNF that I tried twice to read. Help a goon out! Lots of books - horror, nonfiction, classics and more for sale. escape artist fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Oct 2, 2023 |
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Yeah I really loved The Cipher even if I had no clue what was going on at parts
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Count Thrashula posted:Yeah I really loved The Cipher even if I had no clue what was going on at parts Love is a hole in the heart
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Petition to move this thread to the Haunted Clubhouse for the month
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Good Citizen posted:Petition to move this thread to the Haunted Clubhouse for the month Motion denied.  edit: Just kidding. It's definitely a good idea and hopefully it'll recruit some new readers into this thread during the non-spooky months to read my bitchy posts about bloated debut novels. escape artist fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Oct 3, 2023 |
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Good Citizen posted:Petition to move this thread to the Haunted Clubhouse for the month if it is the wish of the thread it can be done
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seconded, bring it back after, it's not going to fall off anybody's bookmarks in the meantime
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Probably need to change the name to like The General Horror Book Thread if we do, to not be confusing. I know I would've been reading this thread earlier if I thought to even look for it, so maybe we get some new blood
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So I am in the middle of Corpsemouth by John Langan. The titular story is about the main character's father's death. It absolutely wrecked me and I couldn't actually finish it, through all the waterworks. Has anyone read it? I have to wonder if John Langan was inspired by the film Big Fish, on some level.
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Good Citizen posted:Probably need to change the name to like The General Horror Book Thread if we do, to not be confusing. It has been done. Get your costumes on and get spoooooOOOOoooooky!
OMGVBFLOL posted:if you have the money and the patience, you can Hello Kitty anything   Thank you deep dish peat moss!
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are crime suspense novels considered horror books
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Tired Moritz posted:are crime suspense novels considered horror books are they scary
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Hi new poster so moving it helped me discover the thread. Just finished Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, and I'm a bit bummed because the book had a lot of promise and style but spent so long wandering around telling side stories that it lost its focus and I just wanted to be done with it. Are her other books as longwinded? Not a big horror reader, tend to knock out a few titles every Halloween and this was just the worst way to start the month.
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faantastic posted:Hi new poster so moving it helped me discover the thread. Things We Lost In The Fire is shorter and more to the point. I DNF'ed Our Share of Night because it was aimless.
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My favorite horror novels for no reason: Starfish by Peter Watts. Ignore the sequels, it works as a standalone. For science reasons a bunch of legit hosed up people are turned into underwater cyborg people so they can swim around at the bottom of the ocean and do maintenance on generators down there. No one is happy. Everything is under pressure. It's great and awful and I love this book. The Werewolves of London by Brian M Stableford. loving weird meandering trilogy about werewolves, angels, philosophy, and bad people. I devoured all three in fever dream and would happily do so again. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster is exactly what it sounds like. You will feel sick reading this. Anita Blake novels by LKH: the first nine books of this series are hardcore cop-core murder investigation with a lady who raises the dead for a living. There's a lot of vampire fetishization and weirdness, the werewolves are straight up cannibals, they're fun! Has a lot of intense set pieces - a zombie invades Anita's bedroom in the middle of the night and it's every home invader nightmare I've ever had. They get increasingly into Anita's love life as they go on (she breaks up temporarily with her werewolf boyfriend when he does a cannibalism) and by book ten there's a lot of orgies. But I would safely rec the first nine to anyone here. (I enjoy it as it goes into sex - that gets wrapped into the horror too - but I know I'm a rare bird.) The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R Kiernan is a standalone piece about a schizophrenic woman who is experiencing an even worse break from reality than you'd expect. It's almost like reading a David Lynch film, and I refuse to describe it further. Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler. The Apocalypse has hit, but it's not a sane one. Body horror, the earth is sick, and the writing is weird. It's divided into short stories about different people suffering through the end times. Vibrant and weird. Taken by Lilith Saintcrow. It's published as a paranormal romance, looks like one, isn't. It's about an abuse survivor getting violently kidnapped by a were-weasel and dragged into a world of violence. She spends most of the book terrified and angry, and while our were-weasel is eventually a solid love interest, there's a constant threat that makes things complicated. It's great and awful. Stalking Tender Prey by Storm Constantine. First in a trilogy, works as a standalone, WEIRD. It's about small town horror in Britain - a man comes to town, weird poo poo happens, a man leaves town. A woman has a romance with her cat. Weird magic poo poo happens. Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy A Collins. First in a series, works as a standalone. I'll quote my old review: "While Sunglasses After Dark may have been written in '89, it is the most gothic punk 90s horror novel I could've asked for. The finale involves a mirror-shades wearing vampire invading a suburban mansion, setting it on fire, having a psychic battle with a half-succubus, shooting out guards and having a personal revelation about how comfortable she is with violence. ... All of that gore and sex does lend it a lurid air - but I want to salute Nancy Collins here, because it felt like it was trashy deliberately. Everything felt over the top that by the end I was just riding with every awful thing. Man strung up by his intestines? Not the first time, won't be the last. The sexual violence was treated almost exactly the same, too - you're horrified, it's awful, and it makes that horror sing." Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling. Sci-fi caving horror! A woman in a cyborg suit goes down into an extensive cave system (with underwater sections!) and her only companion is the radio voice of her handler, who she absolutely can't trust... and the handler has remote access to drugs she can inject to make things Weird. It's fun, and by fun I mean nothing is healthy and the cave might be haunted. Dreadnought by Gretchen Felker-Martin. I'll quote myself again: "What a hosed up story. It needs every content warning under the sun, it wears its influences on its sleeve (Neon Genesis Evangelion and Porpentine) and it's great. Gross and great and everything goes straight to hell. What a perfect way to end my "read 80 books challenge", this thing crawled up in my brain and screamed for several hours straight as I read it. I don't have anything eloquent to say about it because it's about body image and family issues and realizing that its ultimate core is body issues, wanting to love yourself but you can't because your body is wrong and always will be, and not everyone can climb inside a killer robot and take revenge on the world." If you think any of my recs suck or shouldn't be here that's OK. Please read carefully and have fun and absolutely share your favorite horror books!
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Shot in the dark, but does anyone have any Audible exclusive horror audiobooks they love? I have some credits I want to spend.
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StrixNebulosa posted:My favorite horror novels for no reason: Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud: A short story collection where all stories revolve around encounters with hell, and a horror thread favorite. The last story in the collection is especially well liked. Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle: The first horror novel by the beloved purveyor of tinglers! It revolves around a gay conversion camp in an isolated Montana religious community where things clearly aren't quite what they seem. I just read this on a long flight and it was pretty good and I'd recommend. This one got picked for book of the month so if you read then join TBB in discussing it in the BOTM thread! Carrier Wave by Robert Brockway: A signal from the stars drives (almost) everyone to fall into a couple different categories of unique violent insanity. Also has a severe tone-shift like halfway through so maybe you don't even need to finish it? Once the pig shows up you can just choose to bail and no one will judge you. The Haunted Forest Tour by Jeff Strand and James A Moore: It's Jurassic Park but with spooky monsters instead of dinosaurs and it rules. More B-movie gory thrill ride than straight spooky horror, but executes perfectly on that theme. Jeff Strand can be a bit grating with his too-witty dialogue if left to his own devices but James Moore counterbalances him pretty well to the point where this one feels perfect for the silly premise. Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix: It's a haunted Ikea analogue with cutaway Ikea-esque ads that get more deranged as the story goes on. It's not high art but Grady Hendrix does a great job of picking an absurd theme and really committing to the bit. Really any Grady Hendrix book could go here but this one is probably his most well known. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman: Dark ages knight in France become bandit encounters a girl who's maybe a prophet/messiah and decides to help her reach her destination and crazy poo poo ensues. You've probably already heard of/read this book, but if not it's something you should try. I’ll post some of my more current reads later but I’ve been on an Anthology kick lately and I jump back and forth between them so i have to admit it’s hard to not get mixed up on which stories came from which collections
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Can anyone recommend any books in the vein of The Clovehitch Killer and Summer of '84? Stories of kids suspecting local person/family member is a serial killer.
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Franchescanado posted:Shot in the dark, but does anyone have any Audible exclusive horror audiobooks they love? Audible’s adaptation of Dracula is very, very good. I can also highly recommend Dark Matter by Michelle Paver as a book that comes alive in audio format.
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Kestral posted:Audible’s adaptation of Dracula is very, very good. I can also highly recommend Dark Matter by Michelle Paver as a book that comes alive in audio format. I have listened to that Dracula and it was very good. Grabbing Dark Matter. I know that’s a thread favorite that I have been putting off.
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AARD VARKMAN posted:Can anyone recommend any books in the vein of The Clovehitch Killer and Summer of '84? Stories of kids suspecting local person/family member is a serial killer. Bay's End by Edward Lorn
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Might be a bit left field but the full cast Audible adaptation of Alien: Out of the Shadows is very very good. Rutger Hauer plays Ash and all the sounds and effects from pulse rifles to the sound of the keyboards are spot on. You’d swear you were listening to an Alien film you had on as you listen to screams, chomps and acid blood etc. There is also a novelisation of the book with just a normal narrator. Not that one! There are quite a few full cast offerings on audible now - World War Z is good as well
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