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In terms of horror comics, I also enjoyed Something is Killing the Children, Gideon Falls, The Nice House on the Lake, and Monsters. The Sandman is also probably mostly horror but that's not exactly an obscure recommendation.
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ravenkult posted:Boo on that AI cover though. What AI cover is this?
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I'm not sure if it is technically horror, but it definitely has... Horror vibes. I'm about halfway through Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White and I'm really enjoying it. After getting burnt out on extreme horror (I was on an Aron Beauregard kick for a while and I realized I was getting... Bored? Desensitized for sure) so my wife recommended this to me. It's definitely got the young adult feel, but it's surprisingly body-horror-y for what it is, and I think ties in some pretty decent metaphor for living as a trans person and, in a much more general sense, living as a queer person. It's unapologetically queer, like very in your face about it, but as a queer person I like that a lot. I'm looking forward to seeing where this story goes. The author has an adult horror book coming out next year, after 3 YA novels. I'm excited to see where he goes with it.
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ravenkult posted:Boo on that AI cover though.
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^^ I wasn't sure what he meant but I interpreted it to mean that the Tim Waggoner's cover is reminiscent of cursed AI images because of the number of fingers on the hand
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Makes sense. I thought it was a reference to the Hellboy page and was baffled for a moment.
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escape artist posted:^^ I wasn't sure what he meant but I interpreted it to mean that the Tim Waggoner's cover is reminiscent of cursed AI images because of the number of fingers on the hand It was this but it's an actual AI cover.
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R.L. Stine posted:drat this destroyed me. Is their other work this good too? I remember really liking His Face All Red when it was making the internet rounds. For that matter, are there any graphic novels or comic omnibuses that might scratch a horror itch? I just finished Harrow County, it was pretty great, but grounded spooky hauntings and a generally heavy atmosphere are my poo poo. I'm currently reading Gou Tanabe's adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness and enjoying it quite a bit. That's one of the Lovecraft stories that relies most on the visuals, which I've never really been able to construct properly in my head, and Gou nails it. The starkness of the Antarctic landscape and the uncanny architecture are well-served by beautiful black-and-white lines, and he does a remarkable job of bringing the story to life without changing Lovecraft's actual work.
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Read The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch and it was really good. Cosmic horror and time travel. It's hard to talk about without spoiling it, it's not particularly gory but there's a fair amount of deaths.
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Yarrington posted:Maybe an obvious one but Alan Moore's "Providence". It’s really great. My only minor gripe with it is that I wish it didn’t connect with his previous two Lovecraft comics at the end. Those aren’t bad but Providence is so much better and I wish it could stand on its own. edit: nitpicking here but I also could have done without a cameo from ST Joshi. Drunkboxer fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Apr 20, 2024 |
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Drunkboxer posted:It’s really great. My only minor gripe with it is that I wish it didn’t connect with his previous two Lovecraft comics at the end. Those aren’t bad but Providence is so much better and I wish it could stand on its own. My major gripe with Providence is that it features sexualised images of children in volume 2. I can't tell you about the end because that poo poo went straight back to Amazon and I haven't read anything new by Moore since.
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Relevant Tangent posted:Read The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch and it was really good. Cosmic horror and time travel. It's hard to talk about without spoiling it, it's not particularly gory but there's a fair amount of deaths. One of my favorite books in recent years. Maybe not explicit horror in some people's definitions but it was probably better than anything else I read in eliciting a sense of impending doom. I can't remember if any other book had my heart racing the way this one did. If you haven't read it his other book (Tomorrow and Tomorrow) is really good. A little slower to get going but excellent neo noir.
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I'm on book 5 of 6 of McDowell's Blackwater (bought the old paperbacks off eBay because I like old books, have poor impulse control and loved The Elementals.) and so far it loving RULES! Hell yeah!!!
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This was good and bleak and gross without being over the top extreme genre gross. I enjoyed it and would recommend it to someone who wants a slasher fic that goes in a different direction than most. Not a direct spoiler, but I guess a way to make the twists more impactful, maybe consider turning off your percentage complete if you're reading it on a kindle like I did. It'll help with some of the surprises.
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Sanctuary by Valentina Cano Repettoquote:Grief leaves a stain. Between Diavolo by Jennifer Thorne and maybe The House of Last Resort by Christopher Golden, I MIGHT be starting a calibre mini bookshelf for italian locale horror. I really enjoyed this book. I thought the historical sections were very realistic and I loved the creeping dread as the true culprit(s) were revealed. What a horrific mess! Major CW for domestic abuse, stalking / harassment btw
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ty for the graphic novel/comic recommendations, i've started with Gideon Falls and Something is Killing the Children, enjoying both so far. in non-picture books i'm also working on Hollow (Brian Catling), which i think was recommended earlier itt, it's been on my list for a while. decent Between Two Fires vibes but i already know nothing will ever get close. dropped The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler and Other Strange Stories (Reggie Oliver) super hard because imo it takes really interesting concepts and ruins them almost every single time. feels like if M.R. James wrote HORRORS by Ben Biddick
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I really liked the horror comic Redfork. It has juggalos and miner demons.
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I know it says it on the tin, but something is really killing the gently caress out of those children. They don't shirk from the ultraviolence just because it's a six year old.
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Good Citizen posted:This was good and bleak and gross without being over the top extreme genre gross. I enjoyed it and would recommend it to someone who wants a slasher fic that goes in a different direction than most. Nthing the rec and also the spoilered part. drat fun book. I'm also reading through Lord of the Feast by Tim Waggoner and man, this is the funniest, gruesomest game of Operation combined with a family reunion scavenger hunt. Pretty good so far but I'm only maybe 30 percent through it.
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Are there any legitimately good horror westerns? Like, every time I've tried to read a horror western it's been bad. The Gunslinger is the only exception that I can think of...
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escape artist posted:Are there any legitimately good horror westerns? Like, every time I've tried to read a horror western it's been bad. The Gunslinger is the only exception that I can think of... Blood Meridian, if you consider that horror
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moreso horrific than horror - blood meridian, but everyone's read it. the indifferent stars above is non-fiction, about the donner party, that is pretty intense. i don't think i've been blown away by any true american west horror fiction tbh
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escape artist posted:Are there any legitimately good horror westerns? Like, every time I've tried to read a horror western it's been bad. The Gunslinger is the only exception that I can think of... I’ve only read two of the Splatter Westerns and they both pretty good (Dust and 13th Koyote). Blood Meridian should definitely count too
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If a modern setting still qualifies as Western (which it should, see: No Country for Old Men), then Andy Davidson's In the Valley of the Sun is pretty solid
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I've read Blood Meridian two (and a half) times and it might be my favorite book ever. I've read 8 or 9 of McCarthy's works. Not quite what I am looking for though. I loved Andy Davidson's Boatman's Daughter, and hated The Hollow Kind so much I DNFed it.
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Check out The Hunger by Alma Katsu - it's a fictional horror based on the Donner party story, and it is good.
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Opopanax posted:I’ve only read two of the Splatter Westerns and they both pretty good (Dust and 13th Koyote). Blood Meridian should definitely count too I've read 10 or so of the Splatter westerns & the quality varies a fair bit between books, that said I still enjoyed them. Dead in the West & Deadman's Crossing by Joe R Lansdale are supposed to be good & on my to read list.
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Everything I read by Lansdale is good to great. So those I will look for, and be excited about.
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escape artist posted:Everything I read by Lansdale is good to great. So those I will look for, and be excited about. Lansdale also wrote Two-Gun Mojo, which is pretty much the definitive Jonah Hex graphic novel.
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The Redemption of Morgan Bright by Chris Panatier [white american man]quote:A woman checks herself into an asylum to solve the mystery of her sister's murder, only to lose her memory and maybe her mind. I went in expecting a standard haunted locale and hey the ghosts is grief and there's sororal love themes. What I got was some hosed up poo poo about psych abuse, maybe supernatural poo poo, mental illness after mental illness, and maybe dead children haunting uteruses?? The pussy imagery is fun, oysters and clittoral pomegranate seeds and all that. But that she vomits up a loving vulva? Folds and everything? What the gently caress. And she's not the only one to do this?? Also yes it's epistolary in that there's intermittent sections of police interrogation, text messages, and so forth. It's a decent addition and not a tedious, time wasting gimmick. Someone else please read this, so I'm not the only one feeling like I just smoked crack. I haven't even finished it. Might be bad at the last second but whatever, I'm having fun. Major CWs for on screen psychiatric abuse, torture, medical abuse, gaslighting, sexual assault / rape.
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Paradise-1 by David Wellington [white american man]quote:An electrifying novel set in deep space and perfect for fans of science fiction and horror, Paradise-1 follows two agents from the United Earth Government as they investigate the complete disappearance of humanity's first deep space colony. Ok listen, I know this sounds incredibly scifi, and this is the horror only thread. But the plot is definitely horror. Space Horror, imo. Think Event Horizon, but not a total rip off. Minor plot spoiler it involves the use of that Basilisk memetic death concept where a certain audio visual pattern will cause you to go insane and eventually die due to major spoilers that I don't want to mention. I thought it was a neat departure from the usual evil aliens fare, or evil military taking over space colonies. I loving loved every time they boarded a new space ship just to find what fresh hell had evolved into being. Fair warning. This is the first in a series, so if you don't like semi abrupt endings wherein the journey culminates without immediate resolution then maybe wait until the second book comes out. I did get personally irritated that yeah, you spent about 2+ hours following these characters through life or death struggles only to not see why the gently caress they wanted to land on the Roanoke-esque colony planet.
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Thom and the Heads posted:I'm on book 5 of 6 of McDowell's Blackwater (bought the old paperbacks off eBay because I like old books, have poor impulse control and loved The Elementals.) and so far it loving RULES! Hell yeah!!! Blackwater is so weird because the horror / supernatural elements almost seem superfluous to the plot. Like, you could replace those elements with more mundane, every day examples of trauma and secrecy and it wouldn't really effect the story at all. For me the real enjoyment came from just following the Caskey family through the years.
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Heye remember that Dutch guy who wrote Hex that everyone ITT was excited about? Well he's back, just released a few days ago. Oracle by Thomas Olde Heuvelt quote:From international bestseller Thomas Olde Heuvelt comes Oracle, a supernatural thriller where an omen from our past threatens the return of ancient forces that will change the world forever. *cocks gun* the ship is haunted. So far it's really good. I do love how it starts out wrong [ship on land] and gets worse [dog named sheep?!].
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