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Drunken Baker posted:Chuck Tingle getting back to his simpler roots, I see. Close. My rear end Is Haunted is a 2004 porn featuring Belladonna. My rear end Is Haunted By The Gay Unicorn Colonel is a Tingle joint published in 2015.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:i will read every single volume of the familiar, then livestream myself cutting off my dick and balls and mailing them to danielewskis house 
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chernobyl kinsman posted:barker sucks Wrong
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Oct 31, 2018 21:45
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Jedit posted:If you read Books of Blood volume 1, you'll find some fairly definitive evidence that Barker sucks. I've read nearly everything written by him. Plenty there to poo poo on but he's written some good stuff too. He's no different from King et. al. in that respect
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plz dont pull out posted:So for the month of October I tried to read some horror to get in the spirit of the season, those books being I'm thinking of Ending Things, The Disappearance at Devil's Rock, and Enter, Night. These are actually the first books I've finished since high school and honestly I came away from the whole experience really frustrated, both with the books themselves and with novels in general. In all three cases I was really invested in the story up to the ending, then it all came apart for me in the last couple pages. Spoilers for all three. Kill two birds with one novel. Horror-Western Blood Meridian
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Dr. Video Games 0081 posted:Yeah I read it on a Nook. Can't teach literature on an ebook tho. Would an ebook reader display properly using an overhead projector? Granted, I graduated high school in the 80's so I don't know if schools still have them in inventory.
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Nov 10, 2018 02:22
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Target has Ligotti's "Conspiracy Against The Human Race" in paperback for $11.59 Link
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Nov 10, 2018 02:31
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I'm gonna' try Wounds next & I'll probably like it. But goddamn am I ready for the next great horror novel.
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Read "My Work Is Not Yet Done" for more of Ligotti's Lovecraft meets Office Space. Just caught this blurb in the Wiki article: quote:In Brandon Robshaw's brief review for The Independent, the book's prose was compared both favourably and unfavourably to Edgar Allan Poe's: "Parts of this are as creepy as Edgar Allan Poe. Unfortunately, the prose is also as ponderous as Edgar Allan Poe. Ligotti simply will not use one word where he can use lots of them." C2C - 2.0 fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Jul 22, 2019 |
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Anyone read Sefira & Other Betrayals by Langan? I've read Wide, Carnivorous Sky and I liked it well enough. Amazon reviewers seem to compare it favorably to that collection.
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Aug 6, 2019 02:20
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chernobyl kinsman posted:not a book but the lighthouse whips so hard oh my god Wanna' see this. Might go check it out at the Sunday matinee
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Nov 6, 2019 06:54
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Anyone read the collection A Mountain Walked? Just stumbled across it on Amazon and it's got some heavy-hittters contributing (Ligotti, Keirnan, Gaiman, et al)
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Nov 23, 2019 19:09
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chernobyl kinsman posted:here's an interview with him If you need anything, and I mean ANYTHING, on the forums then just PM me. I hadn't read this before and, like hallelujah, I think I'm in love with Ligotti now & you just provide the context.
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Mods, hit me with that Ligotti gang tag too & I'll be whatever kind of withered-husk marionette you want me to be.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:What's the elevator pitch to get people to read ligotti? Crouch furtively in the corner of the elevator. Begin drooling heavily while smiling with your eyes as wide open as possible.
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Speaking of women authors, any Poppy Z Brite recos? Read Calcutta, Lord Of Nerves many moons ago and absolutely loved the story.
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Untrustable posted:People Live Still in Cashtown Corners by Tony Burgess is probably one of the best books I've read in the last year. It's just so weird. Any of his other stuff worth checking out? This looks cool but I don't see it in eBook form. Amazon has the paperback for like $30 which seems like a lot for 170 pages.
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Untrustable posted:Weird. I bought it on Kindle for like 99 cents. Weird. Still only showing the paperback for me.
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May 28, 2020 19:50
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Don't know how I feel about Monsterland, the adaptation of NALM on Hulu, after checking out the first episode last night. Don't terribly mind the actor choices even though the male protagonist/antagonist(?) doesn't really fit the description in the story. No one can get a south Louisiana accent or the grammar correct, though that's a small nitpick since I'm from the area. I was really digging it up into the "reveal". I need to look at NALM on my Kindle, but I don't remember that part in the book being as fleshed out in terms of an explanation. I seem to remember a bit of it was left to the reader's imagination. I'm off Monday so I'm gonna' sit through a few more episodes. My girlfriend, who hasn't read NALM, told me she felt "weird" after watching the first episode. Which, all things considered, is probably where most people find themselves at the end of a Ballingrud tale.
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Xiahou Dun posted:NALM is like some art poo poo. It's so very, very good but you need to be in the right headspace to process it. Like Schindler's List is a great movie but maaaaaaybe not what you want after a long day at work and you just want to chill. You already sold me with “Group of Bigfoot go ham on...” Gonna pick this up on my next day off.
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Oct 8, 2020 02:44
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Xiahou Dun posted:It's a very fun read. Get whatever your preferred beverage is and sit on like a porch or something and binge it. Ain't high art but it's like 300 pages of serotonin. Which is exactly what I wanted. Kind of what I need right now actually. Blasted thru NALM over the past 2 days. Plus I’m a sucker for all things Sasquatch; I legit love listening to eyewitness accounts on YouTube & such.
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Halfway through We Are Here To Hurt Each Other; loving it! It’s very Clive-Barker-meets-Poppy-Z-Brite so far which is my jam. Any reccos for The Puppet King and Other Atonements? It’s a pretty frequent suggestion via Amazon; most of my Kindle stuff swings from Ligotti to Langan to Ballingrud.
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UwUnabomber posted:Thanks, that makes a little more sense. And the portion I quoted is one of the things I found frustrating about it for sure. I finished it, didn't really hate it but meh. I liked it better than Wounds, for sure. “…you’re dead.”
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I just started reading Between Two Fires late last night after seeing the glowing praise here (and having never heard of it previously). I’m halfway thru and goddamn this is a great novel so far. If it weren’t for the fact that I’m feverish and feeling lovely, I probably otherwise would’ve finished it in a single sitting.
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zoux posted:I recommend sitting between two fires. I’m not the pope! 
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Maybe it’s the lingering delirium from my illness, but that ended up being one of the best novels I’ve read in years.
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Kestral posted:Thank you both for the recommendations! Any suggestions on where to start with these folks? I just finished up Ship of Fools and found it desperately wanting, so I'm still very much in the mood for some well-written horror. Paula Ashe’s We Are Here To Hurt Each Other might be in the wheelhouse of what you’re looking for, also.
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fez_machine posted:Avram Davidson's The Boss in The Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil which I've recommended numerous times in this thread is free on Amazon for the next 5 days. Maybe it’s because I’m on my phone right now, but I checked thru the Amazon app & the Kindle app and it doesn’t seem to be free. EDIT: Weird; it worked using Safari & just going to Amazon there. Thanks & good looking out! C2C - 2.0 fucked around with this message at 11:28 on Apr 24, 2023 |
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I rarely see it mentioned in this thread, but I quite enjoyed My Work Is Not Yet Done too.
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:I really loved We Are Here to Hurt Each Other but its also the only book ive read on that list Loved it too; read it a few months back on someone's recco here in the thread. Something about female horror authors (Brite & Koje come to mind) that Ashe has on display as well is a very particular delivery & syntax. I can't quite put a finger to it, but parts of WAHtHEO gave me weird vibes, almost like Ligotti. It's a good book. I can't remember where I got this recco from, but A Lush & Seething Hell is a really good weird horror collection from John Horner Jacobs. It reads like a more refined & cosmopolitan Laird Barron.
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Any thoughts on: The Puppet King and Other Atonements Home Before Dark: A Novel The Secret Of Ventriloquism ? I have them saved to a list of potential Kindle purchases but I’ll be damned if I remember adding them or what might’ve spurred me to do so. The 1st & 3rd kinda’ ring a bell but I wanted to get some opinions before pulling the trigger on any of them.
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gey muckle mowser posted:The Secret of Ventriloquism is very derivative of Thomas Ligotti (openly so), but I did enjoy it and think it’s probably worth a read. It’s a short story collection but there are threads that tie the stories together that become more apparent the farther along you get in the book. Good lookin' out! They're all pretty cheap on Kindle, but I just purchased TSoV as a starter.
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Oxxidation posted:got around to reading Between Two Fires and it lived up to its reputation, knockout hit of a pageturner horror novel That style of writing is what caused me to fall in love with James Elroy, but I also tend to think that it lends itself well to his subject matter.
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Sinbad's Sex Tape posted:Sorry it’s Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian. It just came out this month Just started reading this; so far, so good!
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Whoever recommended Red Rabbit: thanks a ton! Most certainly scratched the itch left behind by Between Two Fires!
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Just wanted to say thanks, v-b c for all these reviews!!!
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Wachter posted:I'm 100% reading Wounds soon. I'll take well-written horror that retreads similar themes over garbage every time. Yeah, that’s a good one. Procession of the Black Sloth is one of my favorite short stories ever written.
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