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There's a handful of okay stories in it, but Will Murray's The Sothis Radiant in this out of print anthology is really goddamned good and does Lovecraftian cosmic nihilism as well as anything I've seen.
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I have Cthulhu 2000, the Book of Cthulhu, and Lovecraft Unbound at home. I think there's one or two stories overlapping between Cthulhu 2000 and the Book of Cthulhu- I remember "Black Man With a Horn", but there might be one more. Lovecraft Unbound really isn't going to overlap with either of them since the point of it is to use Lovecraft's themes and ideas in stories that aren't strictly Mythos pastiches.
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I preordered it on Amazon and today got an email saying that the price went down after I ordered but before it shipped, so they were refunding me 32 cents. Which... okay, I guess! The book is pretty good! I couldn't put it down, and it builds nicely on the world of the Laundry, revealing that even Bob doesn't know as much as he thinks he knows.
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Jul 5, 2012 05:03
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Stross is way too productive and prolific a writer for me to worry about that.
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Jul 5, 2012 09:22
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TOOT BOOT posted:It'd be interesting to see a Lovecraftian Apocalyse actually occur for once instead of being narrowly averted I dunno where the world of The Laundry is going, but Stross has already done that.
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Jul 5, 2012 09:29
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I felt like the first two Laundry novels have a very different voice from the next two, which is probably because the first two are pastiches of particular styles and the other two are Stross being Stross.
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Sep 8, 2012 11:40
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ravenkult posted:Classy. Drawing Blood, Poppy Brite.
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Jan 8, 2013 14:31
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Honestly, I saw the movie then read the book, and I felt like JDATE made the best possible movie it could've out of the book, and I say that without the least rancor toward the book, which is every bit as excellent as the film. There's a bunch of stuff in the book that would take too long to explain (such as the demons harassing David by changing the lyrics of songs he hears to be racist) or just goes way too high-concept for a portion of a film. It's a great book and a great movie was made out of it, and both are well worth your time and good on their own merits.
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Nov 4, 2013 18:50
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I liked the Watch books, but my undergraduate degree was philosophy with a focus on ethics. Lukyanenko really, really likes having characters argue over morality for a several pages at a time.
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Feb 13, 2014 01:14
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Cold Print is long out of print, but you can usually get it for a penny plus shipping at Amazon.
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Feb 21, 2014 08:28
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"Fat Face" was pretty widely anthologized, if memory serves. RIP.
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Mar 8, 2014 05:15
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Hey, so the new Laundry book, The Rhesus Chart, is really good.
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Jul 4, 2014 09:28
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CuddleChunks posted:I"m reading it right now. Wooooo! I wish he could publish these faster or had more short titles in the same universe. Go Charlie Stross! Have you read the stories "Down on the Farm", "Overtime", and "Equoid"? They're all published online and quite good.
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Jul 5, 2014 08:05
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CuddleChunks posted:I already paid my tenbux for all the ironic shitposting I can handle. Stross was IIRC heavily involved in the first wave of consumer internet back in the late 80's and 90's- his IT knowledge is firsthand.
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True Detective was really loving good. Closest thing in tone that I think I've ever seen to Seven. The Mythos elements were present but not misused.
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Jul 14, 2014 20:37
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Halloween Jack posted:I hate this more than Thomas Ligotti hates being alive. The Nightmare Factory is a big thick book of Ligotti.
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Jul 15, 2014 15:17
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Ornamented Death posted:That's a graphic novel. Oh, whoops. I found my copy of the actual slab of Ligotti that is The Nightmare Factory at a Goodwill for a buck, which it looks like is about $74 less than it goes for on Amazon. Didn't look close enough to realize that that wasn't a rerelease. God, I love Goodwill.
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Jul 15, 2014 15:51
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Pickman's model is one of the better introductions to Lovecraft. It's short, introduces the new reader to several of HPL's hobbyhorses, and has a pretty classic ending.
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Aug 24, 2014 13:46
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The Colour out of Time is just about the most Lovecraftian Lovecraft story, I think- it exemplifies his cosmicism better than just about anything, though The Shadow Out of Time takes a good run at it. Picture in the House is IMO not a standout, though there's something about the phrase "hungry for victuals I couldn't raise nor buy" that's just delightfully chilling.
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Aug 24, 2014 17:08
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Ornamented Death posted:When Derleth is writing entirely within his own creations, he's fine. The backlash from fans of cosmic horror stems from his complete and utter lack of understanding of what Lovecraft was doing. A fair number of writers that do stories within Lovecraft's Mythos use the crap Derleth introduced because they don't necessarily know any better, though this is less of a problem since the advent of the internet and Joshi's ascendancy as the go-to Lovecraft scholar. That said, August Derleth is a huge part of why any of us know who HPL was. He may not have understood Lovecraft's work, but he (along with Donald Wandrei) did most of the heavy lifting in bringing it to the masses.
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Here's a pretty extensive article on the subject.
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The first two Laundry novels have a very different voice from the later novels since they're deliberately aping Ian Fleming and Len Deighton, and then the later novels are just straightforwardly in Bob Howard's voice. Might be a bit odd the first time.
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Nov 19, 2014 22:04
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Ghostwoods posted:If you can find it, the 80s edition/s of "Songs of a Dead Dreamer", and/or 90s ed of "Grimscribe", or alternatively the '96 bind-up "The Nightmare Factory". The new, updated, "definitive" versions of Songs and Grimscribe are a definite down-grade. The '96 paperback of "The Nightmare Factory" goes for about $200 online, soooooo maybe find a different printing.
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Nov 29, 2014 13:58
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Skyscraper posted:Are any other horror writers doing this? I'd put into a patreon for more Zack Parsons horror. I only ever read Your Next Door Neighbor is a Dragon, what horror has he done?
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NickRoweFillea posted:It's not books specifically, but do you guys have any creepy podcast recommendations? /r/nosleep is a subreddit where people write spooky stories for each other. There's a podcast where they read selected posts.
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Section 9 posted:I just found that they released the Borderlands short story series on Kindle recently. Edited by Thomas F. Monteleone and Elizabeth Monteleone. I read them all in the 90's on paperback, I think they were actually published by White Wolf (of the Vampire RPG fame) at the time or something, but I think many of them fit in the weird horror genre. Some are typical 90's grimdark, but others are really good. I wanted to find them again because I remember "The Pounding Room" by Bentley Little having a big impact on me, and it still did strike me as hilarious and scary at the same time rereading it 20-some years later. I'd say give the first one a try and if you like at least some of the stories in it you might like the other 4 volumes. One thing I've noticed is that it suffers a bit from scanning, there's a lot of typos that are obvious OCR failures. But they're easy to read around. Back in the 90's WW had a publishing arm that did some random short story anthology stuff. I've got a collection of Elric pastiches, "Tales of the White Wolf", that they published.
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If you're up for throwing a few bucks on an OOP paperback, Miskatonic University has some fun stories (notably "Teachers", a tribute to Robert Bloch, and "Ghoulmaster", which I understand is part of a series) and some serious failures (the overlong "Her Misbegotten Son" is soooo bad and doesn't justify the 70 pages it eats), but hidden toward the back between a mostly unremarkable story and an amusing story about a play gone wrong (and not the one you're thinking of) is "The Sothis Radiant", by Will Murray. It's one of the best comic horror stories I've read and it's a loving shame the only place it was ever printed is here.
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May 29, 2015 02:17
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anilEhilated posted:I honestly think that's Lovecraft in a nutshell. The only story of his I'd consider scary is The Colour Out Of Space, the rest is more about awe inspiration and -someness. I disagree- I think he does creepy well, and the chase scene in The Shadow Over Innsmouth is just harrowing.
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GrandpaPants posted:Well, apparently the only way he found the inspiration to write The Spectral Link was because he was sick and miserable (with some stomach thing?). He literally became one of his own characters. Season 2 is abandoning everything interesting about Season 1.
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Jun 23, 2015 03:27
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I like the bureaucratic stuff (and loved The Annihilation Score), so idk. 
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Jul 18, 2015 09:54
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The emergence of superheroes pushes forward CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN- it's the widespread increase of occult power that has been predicted as part of the early stages of CNG since the beginning.
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anilEhilated posted:Finished Annihilation Score. Gonna say I enjoyed it more than Rhesus Chart, but it's definitely one of the weaker books in the series. I liked the finale a lot, though; while the cutoff was abrupt, there's some hope going into the future. There's not a surprisingly lengthy aftermath chapter in which the protagonist returns to the Laundry and the impact of the book's events is examined, which is weird for a Laundry book.
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Jul 19, 2015 09:43
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Rough Lobster posted:I don't think the ending was bad per se but after having the Sleeper in the Pyramid awoken in one book, and a close call with The King in Yellow I'm seriously ready to stop being blue balled. It was the score that Mo was being forced to play.
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Aug 2, 2015 04:05
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Dunno what that guy's on about, reading Lovecraft makes me nervous.
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Oct 25, 2015 07:36
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ravenkult posted:I published my Best of Lovecraft anthology. Unfortunately Amazon is not convinced his stories are in the public domain, so they won't let me sell it. If there's any interest in the eBook I'll send it to ya or post a link here or something (I mean, you can get those stories anywhere, but this one has pictures!) He's been dead 78 years, what more do they want?
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Nov 3, 2015 02:56
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ravenkult posted:Never been a fan of Ramsey Campbell, he's somehow more depressing than Liggotti, and I love Liggotti. I think there's a lot to like in Cold Print but a good chunk of it's awfully obvious and predictable at times. In particular the story that introduces Glaaki is awfully clumsy about basically giving away that the people in the town work for Glaaki.
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Nov 21, 2015 04:23
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Pistol_Pete posted:In all fairness, I think he was about 17 when he wrote that. Impressive if so, for sure-there's a reason HPL burned all his juvenalia.
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Also if you're into the rpg a surprising number of the monsters are from it.
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