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Professor Shark posted:Crossposting from The Terror TV/IV thread with questions for the book: It's been a while since I read the novel so I don't actually recall the reasons behind the first question, but the second was random spooky ghost nonsense. I don't think Simmons intended any concrete explanation for what happened on the ship before Crozier found it again, and I think that's kind of the point; it is a true Ghost Ship then, on which unspeakable acts have been committed, which haunt it long after any physical deaths. Knowledge of specifics would spoil the intended effect.
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In the vein of international horror authors, I would like to recommend the Japanese writer Otsuichi for his novels Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse and Goth, both of which got decent translations a few years back. The former is a collection of novellas, of which Black Fairy Tale is the absolute stand out and pretty unique, while Goth is a little more of an acquired taste, about a sociopath and the girl he is obsessed with.
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Scarlet Gospels was a huge bait and switch for me. I'd never read anything by Barker before except The Hellbound Heart and flipped Gospels open on a whim while browsing in a bookshop. The first two chapters were hands-down amazing and convinced me to get the book, and then the rest was a wet fart.
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