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Has anyone heard of the judges before? I'm not as well read as my Tinder profile says I am. https://www.npr.org/2018/06/21/621953925/summer-horror-poll-meet-our-expert-panelists Edit: What the gently caress how does having World War Z not instantly invalidate this list?
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Aug 21, 2018 15:24
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Len posted:Cthulhu sells right now. Slap him on a boardgame and you can get drat near all the money from nerds on Kickstarter You don't even need the game, to be honest. I imagine most people bought that one game with the baby-sized Cthulhu (to clarify: I mean a Cthulhu that is the size of an actual human baby) for the "mini." Pththya-lyi posted:Caitlin R. Kiernan is another that comes to my mind. What Caitlin Kiernan would you/the thread recommend? I know, don't judge a book by its cover, but goddamn a lot of the covers for her books are terrible and look like supernatural romance.
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Aug 22, 2018 00:49
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I'm reading North American Lake Monsters, and drat it does a good job of setting up these haunted people with their haunted lives, even if the stories themselves aren't necessarily horror in the traditional sense. The fact that most/all the stories tend to end on a hanging thread just sorta makes it a bit more real, since, well, these lives aren't gonna be wrapped up all nice like. I was seeing what Amazon recommended, and does anyone have thoughts on Langan's The Wide, Carnivorous Sky? I remember a mixed reaction to his The Fisherman, but maybe he's better with short stories?
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Oct 26, 2018 22:44
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I'll put her complete collection on the ole wishlist! I honestly only read NALM because of this thread (or maybe the cosmic horror thread), so thanks goon recommendations!
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Oct 26, 2018 22:53
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Hell just read Conspiracy Against the Human Race. Ligotti is basically a Ligotti character.
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Jul 17, 2019 17:29
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Thanks for saving me the time and money, thread!
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Jul 21, 2019 19:55
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I had to stop reading and take a walk after Wild Acre. gently caress that's a good story.
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Jan 21, 2020 22:49
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I think the monster is important, given its symbolism as a primal force of nature, which ties into how the main character becomes emasculated throughout the course of the story and basically becomes a victim of their own toxic masculinity. . I don't think you would get that if the inciting incident were just an accident.
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Jan 21, 2020 23:10
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I hear there are gang tags here. Gotta get the 'gotti.
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Mar 10, 2020 07:22
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It bothered me how much True Dicks was plagiarized and praised for its plagiarism. Like the closing line is literally just Alan Moore and goddamn that was a beautiful moment in Top Ten.
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Mar 10, 2020 20:07
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Does anyone have any recommendations for (good) stories where a phenomenon is slowly being discovered or studied? It can also just be weird, rather than actually horrific. Probably the weirder the better, honestly, as opposed to like, I dunno, zombies. I'm primarily thinking of Biogenesis as my prime example here, but styles similar to Lovecraft's Mountains of Madness, the priest's story in Hyperion, the good parts of House of Leaves, or Unto Leviathan.
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Feb 23, 2021 09:26
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Thanks all for the recommendations! Looks like I have some new stories to read.
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Feb 23, 2021 20:43
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I finished reading The Cipher. I liked the first parts of it where they were investigating the Funhole and something resembling a mystery and horror stuff was happening. But then the next two thirds of the book was about a tedious toxic relationship and the Funhole seemed secondary to it. The main character seemed adamantly opposed to doing anything, which kills a lot of motivation for me, the reader, to care about the story. The book eventually felt like I was reading the same plot beat over and over again and then the book ends.
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May 18, 2021 07:19
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Weirdly enough, Bundle of Holding (which normally does tabletop RPGs) is having a horror bundle from Night Shade books. I don't know how good these anthologies are, but it's probably worth a look for people in this thread: https://bundleofholding.com/presents/BestHorror
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Oct 6, 2021 18:40
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For those interested, Bundle of Holding has a Clark Ashton Smith and William Hope Hodgson bundle here: https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Weird2022
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Oct 20, 2022 01:52
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nate fisher posted:March 21st. It is a Tuesday and I live in Knoxville, so we are going to make a day of it. We use to go to Asheville a few times a year, but we haven’t been there since COVID (besides driving thru it to go to the beach). Thanks for this! I'm nowhere near the area, but I love me my signed books.
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Mar 3, 2023 04:59
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:Digging The Gone World but drat the author really isn’t shy about ripping straight from True Detective True Detective wasn't shy about ripping straight from Alan Moore so
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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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