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Going to put forward "Southern Gods" by John Honor Jacobs. Also, the short story "N" by Steven King from Just After Sunset is amazing.
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MockingQuantum posted:I know this isn't technically relevant, but I think it's a good venue for this question: Anybody have any recommendations (or whatever the opposite of a recommendation would be?) of good comic book/graphic novel adaptations of Lovecraft? Or any graphic novels with a distinctly Cosmic Horror flavor? There was a 4-issue comic adaptation of Stephen King's 'N' which is very love crafty. Alan Moore's 'The Invisibles' has some of that too.
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LolitaSama posted:Can anyone recommend similar Lovecraftian short stories like King's Crouch End? "N" by King is amazing. "A Study in Emerald" by Gaiman is too.
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MrSlam posted:
Check out "Southern Gods" by John Horner Jacobs. Out of his depth mob goon chasing down eldritch horror in post WW2 Deep South. Lots of fun.
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End Of Worlds posted:adam nevill's been brought up a few times in this thread. just found out if you sign up for his newsletter you get a free ebook featuring a couple of short stories (as well as chapter excerpts) Jesus! gently caress that dude. Very upsetting! I've been trying to read apartment whatever for months and I keep having to stop because I'm a pussy.
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julietthecat posted:Recently finished Under a Watchful Eye, the latest novel by Adam Nevill, whom this thread turned me onto a while ago when people were talking about House of Small Shadows. It really reminded me of that book, as well as Last Days, in that the book revolves around an expansive and horrific (and pretty original) mythology that the reader only gets an incomplete picture of. In this case, it involves an astral projection cult, and the terrible, hidden reality that they can manipulate. (It also has a couple references to his other books) Ooh, new Adam Neville? Buying that right now!
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Dr. Video Games 0081 posted:It's not explained in the reading schedule but to avoid going too far back into the 19th century at which point things like Dracula and The Turn of the Screw become fair game, I've cut anything before 1900 off. The Machen story just barely counts and is cheating a little bit as it was written pre1900 but published post1900. Students will hear a little about the longer tradition of gothic literature and the Klein story helps to point to that but I'm really most interested in exploring the emergence of "horror" as a genre of commercial fiction in the 20th century. You should have them read "And Cain Rose Up" just to be an rear end in a top hat and really freak them out
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Aug 28, 2017 10:03
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MockingQuantum posted:I can see the argument that some of Three-Body Problem has some horror to it, sure. The Deep creeped me out in the first few pages before anything actually weird happened. It is a pretty good read.
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Nov 21, 2017 22:39
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anilEhilated posted:Speaking of The Deep - could someone spoil me on its story? I am very much a pet person so it's not something I am ever going to read but I'm also a huge sucker for everything marine horror. I picked up The Deep for a reread because of this thread to see if it was as disturbing as I remember it being. Jesus Christ it’s nightmare fuel on basically every page. Maybe it helps/hurts that I’ve served on subs, but the whole loving book gives me the jim-jams in the worst way. Hell, you could cut out the “supernatural” crap and just have it be “everybody loses their loving poo poo 8 miles below the ocean surface” and it would be just as scary if not more. Honestly, read the book. It’s horror, so of course it’s going to upset you and there’s animal cruelty and child abuse and whatnot, but if you read horror for the shivers, it’ll get ya.
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Nov 28, 2017 02:27
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So John Hornor Jacobs is working on a new story in the Southern Gods universe, so I figured I’d plug Southern Gods while I’m thinking about it. Redneck Mafia enforcer tooling around post WW2 Deep-South trying to track down a Nylarthotep-possessed bluesman whose music makes people go batshit. It is great.
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Dec 1, 2017 02:21
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Ornamented Death posted:Southern Gods is great. Jacobs doesn't quite stick the landing at the end, but the journey is incredible. The end is the weak part, too, I think, but not enough to stop me enthusiastically recommending it. He’s gotten better as a writer in his stuff since then, so I have high hopes for this new thing. (Which is a novella and not a sequel, according to his twitter)
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MockingQuantum posted:I feel the same. I get why people were saying earlier that it's contrived or not a great book, and it's not, if you're looking for something very literary or unique. But to me it feels like really good slasher movies---you don't really expect the story to be intricately crafted, so much as deliver some scares and really unsettling scenes. Yeah. Even early on, you realize that even if someone makes it out alive, ain’t nobody gonna make it out “ok.”
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MockingQuantum posted:Can anybody recommend some weird fiction or horror with a heavy American West feeling to it? Not necessarily like golden-age western, just something inspired or influenced by them. Doesn't need to be set in the 1800s either. I get the sense that Brian Evenson has at least a good handful of stories that have some western elements but I haven't read much of his, so if he's a good fit I'd definitely take a recommendation on where to start. Silver on the Road (the Devil’s West) by Laura Anne Gilman
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