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this broken hill posted:i bought some issues of tall trees and shadows and welp i guess horror is dead Elaborate.
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Franchescanado posted:Are there any good horror books/stories with about people forced into a survival-of-the-fittest/kill-or-be-killed anarchy game? It's not good at all, but if you're desperate Smooth Worn Stone kicks off a book series about a cave where they kinda sorta do a Battle Royale thing. Trigger warnings for rape though.
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Aug 29, 2018 21:35
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Nevill's The Ritual.
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Sep 6, 2018 01:34
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Doctor Faustine posted:How's the book compare to the movie? I thought the movie was pretty solid. First half better, second part worse.
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Sep 6, 2018 01:39
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Now that I'm not on the phone: I loved the first part of The Ritual and was really disappointed in the other half. I thought it was pretty terrifying and tightly written. The movie I liked a lot less, as it did the usual ''bunch of dudes lost in the woods'' cliches that the book didn't rely on as much. So yeah, first part, heaps better than the movie counterpart. The other half though is goofy as heck in the book but was significantly punched up in the movie. A while back I wrote this about folk horror: https://litreactor.com/columns/five-great-folk-horror-novels Save you a click, I mention: "The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen "We Will All Go Down Together" by Gemma Files "The Loney' by Andrew Michael Hurley "Ritual" by Adam Nevill "Boy's Life" by Robert McCammon (debatable) and from the comments, people suggested: Matthew M. Bartlett's GATEWAYS TO ABOMINATION Thomas Tryon's Harvest Home Peter Ackroyd's First Light T. E. D. Klein's The Ceremonies Christopher Buehlman's Those Across The River
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Sep 6, 2018 15:41
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MockingQuantum posted:They're both horror writers who had a disproportionate influence on horror in the 80s, are kind of consistently overrated, have weirdly dedicated fans for the quality of their writing, and have been coasting on a small handful of good books for most of their careers? lmao
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Nov 2, 2018 03:26
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scary ghost dog posted:yeah he gets props for not giving up, to be sure In my copy of Bird Box at the end he basically says he had written like 20 novels that were just sitting around until some producer (agent? something?) friend of his was like ''Send them all over.'' The movie rights were bought before the book was picked up I believe.
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Jan 10, 2019 01:14
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King has a bunch of good books and I feel most people forget he ''also wrote that one.'' Here's my list of good ones, up until 2010. 1974 - Carrie 1975 - Salem's Lot 1977 - The Shining 1978 - Night Shift (stories) 1978 - The Stand 1979 - The Dead Zone 1982 - The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger 1982 - Different Seasons (novellas) 1983 - Christine 1983 - Pet Sematary 1984 - The Talisman (written with Peter Straub) 1985 - Skeleton Crew (stories, including "The Mist") 1986 - It 1987 - Misery 1987 - The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three 1989 - The Dark Half 1990 - Four Past Midnight (stories) 1991 - Needful Things 1991 - The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands 1993 - Nightmares & Dreamscapes (stories) 1996 - The Green Mile 1996 - Desperation 1998 - Bag of Bones 2002 - From a Buick 8 2002 - Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales 2010 - Full Dark, No Stars Long Walk is his best one though.
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Jan 17, 2019 18:41
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Edmond Dantes posted:
Don't quote me but I think that Library Policeman had some of that. I think he used it a lot when dealing with like, repressed childhood trauma.
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Jan 17, 2019 19:05
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The editing would have been handy after a while, yes. It, The Stand already could have been cut down a lot and The Stand definitely needed an actual ending. It definitely looks like he's had carte blanche to do whatever the gently caress. Even more so after he ''retired'' I feel, because Duma Key was even more disjointed. I mean King's early works where small, fairly tightly written novels. Long Walk, Carrie, The Gunslinger, Dead Zone, etc are all like what, sub-300 pages?
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Jan 17, 2019 20:52
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a foolish pianist posted:For King, really only The Gunslinger and his short stories are worthwhile. Everything else starts dragging and gets tiresome quickly. what the gently caress did I just say motherfucker
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Jan 18, 2019 00:48
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Traxis posted:
I'm in this. There's a sequel called Lost Films.
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Jan 28, 2019 02:56
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Traxis posted:I really enjoyed Transmission, it was fairly creepy and paced extremely well. Experimental Film was ok but it definitely drags with all of the dry, technical bits about Canadian film history. I'm not a film nerd though so YMMV. The Last Days of Jack Sparks has an interesting premise but it falls apart by the end and most of the author's attempts at humor fall flat. The one with the soldiers. Lost Films might actually be better than Lost Signals imo.
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Jan 28, 2019 12:25
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Any good recs for an Alien vibe? Abandoned space stations or ships, etc?
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Feb 3, 2019 17:39
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a foolish pianist posted:Universal Harvester is fantastic. It starts out seeming like a horror novel, but then it turns out to be about family and loneliness and grief and lots of other things. I was disappointed by that book not because it wasn't horror, but because of how it fizzled out at the end.
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Feb 5, 2019 19:09
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Esme posted:If I didn’t like North American Lake Monsters because I felt like every story was a lot of buildup with no payoff, will I also dislike The Visible Filth? I think it's worth a try. I like Lake Monsters myself, but I can see what you mean. Visible Filth is a bit more traditional.
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Feb 8, 2019 19:15
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I believe there won't be any more because they didn't sell well.
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Mar 2, 2019 11:46
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A book I edited years ago is a featured deal on Bookbub and I thought it might be of interest here. It's a 50's USA themed collection that I would describe as kind of old school in terms of stories. Not very gory or violent but not really new wave of weird either. https://www.bookbub.com/books/american-nightmare-by-max-booth-iii-and-tim-marquitz?ebook_deal 
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Mar 24, 2019 15:08
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Some Laird Barron maybe?
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May 5, 2019 09:12
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I read HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt and it wasn't that good. Kinda like a soulless Stephen King, the whole book is basically mapped after Pet Sematary but generally didn't succeed in pulling me in. Some kinda gross parts and slurs also put me off a bit.
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Sep 13, 2019 21:22
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Len posted:I liked the basic thought behind it where this town has a malevolent entity and just stuff upper lips their way around it That's the part of the blurb that got me to pick it up. Unfortunately I read later that he basically rewrote his book to take place in the US instead of Holland, so that kinda explains why I felt it fell flat.
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Sep 21, 2019 17:30
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I think HEX would have worked better if it was set in the 80s or something, so there's not a literal app that tracks the ghost.
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Sep 23, 2019 20:17
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Am I the only one convinced that The Ritual was a novella that he was forced to expand into a novel? It's just two different books smashed into one.
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Nov 23, 2019 15:13
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Limited edition hardcovers are the new author mill/vanity publishing. You get a small press author nobody reads and do a limited edition of 200 copies, sell 20 to their friends and family and you already broke even, the rest is profit.
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Dec 21, 2019 01:49
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Ornamented Death posted:You're about fifteen years late with this take. It's not a take if it's true
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Dec 24, 2019 13:03
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Ornamented Death posted:Your example would seem to disprove ravenkult's point. Had the system worked as presented, the publisher would have done your husband's book as a LE and had him pressuring everyone you know to buy a copy. LEs start at 50$ per copy, so even being hyperbolic I'm not too far off.
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Jan 6, 2020 22:46
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lol you think authors get an advance
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Jan 7, 2020 02:46
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the way to get in touch with Thomas is to go to his fan forum and talk to one of the admins there. What I'm trying to say is getting in touch with Ligotti is kind of a Ligottian story in itself.
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Feb 11, 2020 19:21
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chernobyl kinsman posted:have you been in touch with ligotti A few years ago I wanted to interview him, an admin passed my email along to him
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Feb 11, 2020 23:00
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chernobyl kinsman posted:the ruins is, and i am not being hyperbolic, one of the top 3 worst books i have ever read in my life All I remember is pissing and making GBS threads described in excruciating detail. Ariza posted:What other books or authors would y'all recommend that are similar to Adam Cesare? I think I've finished off his ouevre now and I like the shorter, simpler 80s horror movie aesthetic for listening to/reading at night time when I don't really want dense prose or trying to find layers to a story. Try Max Booth III
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Feb 13, 2020 21:47
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gonna need one of those tags
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Mar 5, 2020 23:38
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MockingQuantum posted:As someone who loves that style of book, I'd say Experimental Film was thoroughly enjoyable. Not a must-read horror novel in general, but a lot of fun if you're looking for that sort of "found footage" horror done pretty well as a book. It's a-me!
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Apr 21, 2020 01:00
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Some horror writer that just put a book out recently. Was DMing women (reviewers, other writers) and telling them how horny he is. Then he made some fake screenshots and sent them to her friends and some publisher claiming she was the harasser, but they were laughable and everyone told him to gently caress off. Now he's nuked all his social media. I gotta say though I'm not sure why people are pulling books from his wife's company. I guess they feel that he might be involved with the operation? Still it's not her fault her huusband's a creep.
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Jun 29, 2020 20:16
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So the last few GBS ghost threads haven't really worked out and generally sucked. But would a PYF creepypasta (*shudder*) thread be interesting? I like to delve into r/nosleep once a year and pick out some decent, more subtle than usual stories, if there's interest I can make a thread.
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Aug 10, 2020 22:34
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I'm trawling r/nosleep but it feels like the direction the sub has taken plus a new influx of wannabe fiction writers had made stories a whole lot worse. Most of the titles sound like Buzzfeed articles (I found an old book and you won't believe what happened next!) and whenever a story gets mildly popular it spawns 500 copycats. Anyway I'm compiling a few to post but it's mostly middling stuff.
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Aug 20, 2020 09:03
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Let me know what you think of Darkhorse Actual.
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Sep 7, 2020 12:46
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That's cool, he's accepting stories for a new anthology now called Lost Contact that's kinda similar.
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Sep 7, 2020 21:55
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StrixNebulosa posted:in this one. I have bad news, friend.
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Oct 4, 2020 02:47
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Untrustable posted:Modern horror anthologies? Can't go wrong with Lost Films and Lost Signals, both edited by Max Booth III and Ellen Datlow. Ellen Datlow didn't edit those, Lori Michelle did with Max. And good news, there's gonna be a 3rd, titled Lost Contact.
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Untrustable posted:Oops. Datlow just seems to be everywhere. My bad. Yes, I submitted a story for Lost Contact. I think Datlow has one that's similar, something about Hollywood and movies? It's called Final Cut.
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