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Ornamented Death posted:There are a rather large number of good authors that would fit this description. IF you want a nice sampling, check out some recent anthologies. The Book of Cthulhu is arguably the best starting point, though Black Wings is also a strong contender. As far as Black Wings, what would you recommend? Beyond skimming through it, I haven't really sat down and read any of the stories yet and I know with these sorts of compilations it can be hit or miss.
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GrandpaPants posted:I didn't know a re-write existed, and when I went to see if it was available on Amazon, I was greeted with one of the worst covers I have ever seen: http://www.amazon.com/Night-Land-Story-Retold/dp/0615508812/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327380136&sr=8-1 I actually bought a copy of this after reading most of that retelling someone linked earlier and I was really reluctant to because of that horrible cover. I mean, I can understand a cover like that for a e-reader edition but jesus.
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Yeah, it really just looks like someone just slapped together a couple of stock images in Photoshop and then ran it through some filters and the Smudge tool. The story deserves more than that, I mean c'mon!
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I just finished Laird Barron's The Light is the Darkness and thought it was pretty terrible. The premise sounded interesting but he somehow turns it into something that isn't interesting at all and I just ended up forcing myself to finish it. Pretty disappointed since I really liked his story "The Broadsword" and thought the whole concept of gladiatorial blood sport + dark gods would be exciting, but I felt like the whole thing was flimsy and Barron was just trying to push his dull protagonist through set pieces of purple prose.
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Neurosis posted:If you read The Night Land, I recommend the rewrite by James Stoddard rather than the original. I've now read both and much prefer Stoddard's. It is much less stilted. Yeah, Stoddard's rewrite is great. That cover though.
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The Rats in the Walls The Colour Out of Space The Music of Erich Zann The Dreams in the Witch House The Festival The Outsider The Terrible Old Man
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Ghostwoods posted:One of the first mythos stories; the place that Kingsport first appears; first establishes Lovecraft's theme of monsters hidden behind masks of humanity. It's mainly that last item that gives it what significance it has, as that's been a fairly enduring post-Lovecraft theme. But it's not as if people will shout at you for leaving it out. It also has that whole narrator faints from terror and wakes up in the hospital to find the places he described earlier in the story haven't existed for hundreds of years. That's probably my favorite thing in that story. pixelbaron fucked around with this message at 18:41 on May 24, 2015 |
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May 24, 2015 18:38
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Dr. Benway posted:Does anybody have any suggestions for just open ended weird not related to mythos and not Lingotti? Maybe along the lines of Liminal States? Jeffrey Ford The Drowned Life and Crackpot Palace specifically.
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ravenkult posted:Bargain bin Dean Koontz. "Bargain Bin" by Bentley Little
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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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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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