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« Reply #30 on: August 08, 2010, 05:10:14 PM » |
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The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard The second story is a swash buckling adventure featuring a Ghost Werewolf. If you buy the kindle editon, you will still get the pulpy illustrations that are in the print copy
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Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs,
Upon the slimy Sea.
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« Reply #31 on: August 11, 2010, 04:25:38 PM » |
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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson is a great read.
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« Reply #32 on: August 16, 2010, 07:16:50 AM » |
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I'm just reading The Return of the Sorcerer by Clark Ashton Smith at the moment, and as such I'd particularly recommend 'The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis'. Also, if no one has mentioned it yet, 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar' by Edgar Allen Poe is very good - but also a kind of obvious choice. A few Ray Bradbury short stories from The Illustrated Man (although they're almost all excellent) - maybe 'No Particular Night or Morning' (space craziness) and 'The City' (a dead city which isn't entirely dead).
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« Reply #33 on: August 16, 2010, 02:12:41 PM » |
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Other story of interest, N. by Stephen King... I just picked this up in comic book form and really like it. |
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Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal...
H.P. Lovecraft "The Tomb"
"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge."
George R.R. Martin "A Game of Thrones"
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« Reply #34 on: August 16, 2010, 07:32:25 PM » |
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Other story of interest, N. by Stephen King... I just picked this up in comic book form and really like it. There's a comicbook version? Egad, I must read that one. |
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Asenaith
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« Reply #35 on: August 16, 2010, 10:15:47 PM » |
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Yeah it was a four issue run, I think it just finished a few weeks ago, I grabbed them all up when I saw them, they were quite enjoyable.
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Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal...
H.P. Lovecraft "The Tomb"
"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge."
George R.R. Martin "A Game of Thrones"
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« Reply #37 on: August 18, 2010, 03:45:04 PM » |
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Some great suggestions here. I want to second the recommendation for Thomas Ligotti. His stuff is very uneven, it is true, but at his best he is original and powerful. Some of his best, in my opinion, are:
The Night School
I Have a Special Plan for This World
The Shadow, the Darkness
My Work Is Not Yet Done
The Greater Festival of Masks
As well as the Last Feast (already mentioned). I haven't read Conspiracy, would love to.
I also second China Mieville. Fantasy, not horror...I guess you'd call it Steampunk, but I hate to put a lable on him, he is so creative and his writing transcends genre. Also his short work...The Ball Room gives me shivers just thinking about it.
William Browning Spencer, Resume with Monsters. Lovecraftian horror in the modern workplace...funny at times but very dark as well. One of my favorite novels in any genre.
As for Dan Simmons...speaking of uneven! Hyperion (sci-fi) was great, Carrion Comfort was a great short story but sucked as a novel, I quit on Drood. Summer of Night, though, is very very good--small-town horror, echoes of Ray Bradbury and early Stephen King (believe it or not that is actually a recommendation, go back and check out Salem's Lot and The Shining).
Tom
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« Reply #38 on: August 18, 2010, 09:59:22 PM » |
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I also second China Mieville. Fantasy, not horror...I guess you'd call it Steampunk, but I hate to put a lable on him, he is so creative and his writing transcends genre. Also his short work...The Ball Room gives me shivers just thinking about it. Agreed, but I'd say much of his work, especially the Bas-Lag trilogy and some of his short stories, have horror tendencies. They're horror-curious! His last couple titles not so much. The City & The City is straight crime novel with a really interesting and enjoyable albeit implausible concept, and his newest, Kraken, is black-comedy fantasy. He always tries to implement new concepts into every one of his books, which is primarily what I love about them. Each one has something you probably haven't seen before: Possibility mining, unseeing, "every religion is correct," it makes you think! |
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The Colour scorched my lands
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« Reply #39 on: August 18, 2010, 11:55:36 PM » |
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I also second China Mieville. Fantasy, not horror...I guess you'd call it Steampunk, but I hate to put a lable on him, he is so creative and his writing transcends genre. Also his short work...The Ball Room gives me shivers just thinking about it. Agreed, but I'd say much of his work, especially the Bas-Lag trilogy and some of his short stories, have horror tendencies. They're horror-curious! His last couple titles not so much. The City & The City is straight crime novel with a really interesting and enjoyable albeit implausible concept, and his newest, Kraken, is black-comedy fantasy. He always tries to implement new concepts into every one of his books, which is primarily what I love about them. Each one has something you probably haven't seen before: Possibility mining, unseeing, "every religion is correct," it makes you think! For sure! I love his bas-lag series, and will read Kraken next. |
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Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal...
H.P. Lovecraft "The Tomb"
"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge."
George R.R. Martin "A Game of Thrones"
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« Reply #40 on: August 19, 2010, 12:31:46 AM » |
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For sure! I love his bas-lag series, and will read Kraken next. You enjoy yourself! That book has some of the best villains ever penned! |
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« Reply #41 on: August 20, 2010, 02:12:01 PM » |
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Has anyone here read Charles Stross? His novelette A Colder War is, for my money, a very scary piece of contemporary Mythos fiction. (You can read it online at the Infinity Plus website RIGHT HERE.) I've just picked up his The Atrocity Archives, which is supposed to be a sort of HPL-meets-Len Deighton story of British Secret Service agents vs. The Forces of Darkness (shades of Brian Lumley's "Necroscope" series!) I'll tell y'all about it after I read it. |
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« Reply #42 on: September 03, 2010, 03:17:09 AM » |
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Gaffarel, James - Unheard of Curiosities Concerning the Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians, the Horoscope of the Patriarchs, & the Reading of the Stars.pdf
Lovecrafters might be especially interested in the discussion of Dagon. I got up to "scar-crowes in Hemp-Plots" in my initial reading. It's a bit cryptic, being from 1650 or so. If anyone can't find it, and wants it, I'll post it.
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« Reply #43 on: September 06, 2010, 09:42:13 PM » |
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Aside From Lovecraft, I don't read a lot of horror. Actually, I don't read a lot that post-dates Lovecraft either. I do see a lot that's Lovecraftian though in other genres, more so now that I'm rediscovering Lovecraft through this Podcast.
For anyone willing to stray away from supernatural fiction, I would recommend "Against The Grain" and "The Damned" by J.K. Huysmans (Lovecraft mentions him a few times in his works) - Huysman's deeply pessimistic worldview was definitely an influence on Lovecraft.
I would also recommend Cormac McCarthy. His novel "Blood Meridian" has so much of the dark cosmic energy that we see in Lovecraft's Cthulu works. Also, his books "Child of God" and "Outer Dark" feature characters who are really similar to the reclusive, insane outsiders found in many of Lovecraft's early stories ("The Picture In The House", "The Tomb", "The Outsider", "The Statement of Randolph Carter").
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« Reply #44 on: September 25, 2010, 01:27:32 PM » |
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Add my voice to the unearthly chorus championing Thomas Ligotti. He's either brilliant or you want to choke him... it depends on the story.
I also have come to develop an affection for the weird tales of Robert W. Chambers - the collection THE YELLOW SIGN is worth seeking out.
There is a anthology called BLOOD AND WATER by Patrick McGrath that has some wonderful and strange stories. 'The Lost Explorer' is one of my all time favorites.
Clive Barker's story 'In The Hills In The Cities' in many ways changed the very direction of my artistic life.
And of course Ray Bradbury- OCTOBER COUNTRY is one of the all time great story collections.
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