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PsychedelicWarlord posted:Hi friends. One of the thread faves, Laird Barron, is very ill with a life-threatening condition. He's hospitalized after being sick since September, and John Langan among others are raising funds for his healthcare costs (he doesn't have health insurance). The one about the robot dog was also cool.
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sephiRoth IRA posted:You missed a bunch of his stories if that's your takeaway Though you may be onto something, because Strapado, the one I liked best as a pure horror story, did not have any hard boiled elements, or any supernatural element at all. The other thing I liked about Swift to Chase was the absence of a cliche that I found a little immersion breaking in the earlier collections, where a character interrupts the tale to soliloquize about how he once read an ancient tome that described the exact situation they're in (I'm looking at you, Men From Porlock). gey muckle mowser posted:The only Laird Barron books I've read are The Imago Sequence and X's for Eyes. What of his should I read next? I haven't read any of his longer form stuff, but I've heard people speak highly of The Croning as well.
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UwUnabomber posted:I just found a bunch of Alien comics. Anyone got any hot tips on which series are good?
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The Dreamer/Grimscribe collection is front loaded with the weakest stories. I don't know whose idea it was to put Frolic first but I've never met anyone who liked it. I have a soft spot for Dr Thoss and Dream of a Manikin, but I don't think it gets good until Masquerade of a Dead Sword.
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Wrapped The Croning. It was okay, like Barron's shorter work but with more padding. In some cases literally so, tying his short stories into a broader mythos and metaplot. The nadir was the part where the evil villains explain their evil plan to the protagonist, and then a chapter later a different villain does the same thing. It's cheesy as gently caress and it robs the story of its mystery and power. As always, even at his worst Barron can still pump out some very evocative descriptive text. My favorite part is the spooky museum at the rich guy's mansion.
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Apr 28, 2023 19:11
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Mr Hootington posted:I am on book 5 of thr Laundey Files and I have to know. How much of the injected social commentary or politics is satire or the author just being an idiot? The Urban Fantasy Thread might be a good place to discuss the topic.
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Found a copy of Lovecraft Country in a little free library. So far it reads like a play report of someone's CoC game. The characters talk and act like modern people pretending to be characters from the 1950s. They even have an "investigator organization" that prompts them to go on adventures - a fictional version of the Negro Motorist's Green Book which sends them to check out locations and verify if they're safe for Black people on road trips. The whole thing feels oddly safe. There's no sense of peril because characters keep getting knocked unconscious or stunned by danger. I know that Matt Ruff is capable of writing horror, Bad Monkeys was far more effective at creating atmosphere and a feeling of dread.
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Aug 14, 2023 21:57
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Giragast posted:Great timing, I just finished this and wanted to ask: should I read Hyperion if I what I didn't like about The Terror was those chapters where characters lore dump in incredibly awkward conversations, instead of just recalling them internally (e.g. let me tell you all about Darwin and my other friend Charles Babbage and his mechanical calculating device)? I don't know how much of that exists in his other books.
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Idle Amalgam posted:Any cosmic horror recommendations that fit the Twin Peaks type of cosmic horror? Less tentacled monster and more ominous grandmas eating creamed corn. Or Dossier style "alt-history/supernatural conspiracy" stuff like the Mark Frost books that accompanied the series?
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Finished Song of Kali. It wasn't as good as everyone said, and it wasn't as racist as everyone said. It was just okay.
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ravenkult posted:Boo on that AI cover though.
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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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