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I enjoy Salem's Lot and Pet Cemetary by Stephen King, why don't you give those two a go you shitheel
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Jul 13, 2014 13:16
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H P Lovecraft had pretty cool ideas but is just about the shittiest, most boring writer imaginable, even by the rather piss poor standards of his time. If he was a better writer he would be more fondly remembered rather than being an idol for man children
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Jul 13, 2014 13:26
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Ddraig posted:H P Lovecraft had pretty cool ideas but is just about the shittiest, most boring writer imaginable, even by the rather piss poor standards of his time. his prose was about on par with most penny dreadfuls but people still remember dracula so w/e
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Jul 13, 2014 13:37
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buy a hotdog! posted:I enjoy Salem's Lot and Pet Cemetary by Stephen King, why don't you give those two a go you shitheel Salem's lot was good, but pet semetary was a complete bore, one of the few stephen king books that was worse than the movie.
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Jul 13, 2014 14:24
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dontcareaboutname posted:Salem's lot was good, but pet semetary was a complete bore, one of the few stephen king books that was worse than the movie. did the film of it have the gangbang in it i haven't seen it
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Jul 13, 2014 14:26
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the movie ended faster than i could read pet semetary. i like to read but pet semetary felt like a punishment. It was like 90% build up then what you know is going to happen, happens and you're just like yep it happened the end.
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Jul 13, 2014 14:29
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dontcareaboutname posted:Salem's lot was good, but pet semetary was a complete bore, one of the few stephen king books that was worse than the movie. the horror of Pet Sematary comes from dealing with the inevitable mortality of your loved ones rather than scary zombies and forest monsters goondolences
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Jul 13, 2014 14:33
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I get that, still doesn't mean it wasn't written in a boring way. It just felt like it could have been 40%-70% shorter, and lose nothing.
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Jul 13, 2014 14:36
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dontcareaboutname posted:I get that, still doesn't mean it wasn't written in a boring way. It just felt like it could have been 40%-70% shorter, and lose nothing. ditto dan simmon's drood and the terror the prose on those is good overall but they're just so loving bloated with irrelevant historical poo poo
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Jul 13, 2014 14:37
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i found a radio drama by bbc that was pretty good, but i cant find it now. Wonder if it was different from the book. Neurosis posted:i would gently caress hodgson too i don't htink he would be a very good lover this might be a bad idea. He's way into  !!!THE PATRIARCHY!!! when was night land written? it reminds me of like early geolgy theories and the whole science mindset that lead to wack dinosaur fossils that're totally wrong and crazy
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Jul 13, 2014 15:13
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SniperWoreConverse posted:i found a radio drama by bbc that was pretty good, but i cant find it now. Wonder if it was different from the book. iirc 1912 it had some old theories about how long the universe would survive and such that were authoritative at the time but didn't last still some real good books though and (at least the revision + sequel I read) aren't too patriarchal
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Jul 13, 2014 15:15
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William Hope Hardbody
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Jul 13, 2014 15:19
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nah it's a pretty sweet idea. I think someone said that it was the first post apocalyptic book. I just laughed my rear end off when he saves his ~tru luv~ and then has to beat her for being naughty. Like not even in a sexual way. And they're in the middle of the goddamn nightland, they could die at any second. And she's so goddamn weak and useless. Also he totally abandons all the other surviors like a dickhead. one of my favorite parts was the slug tunnel and that gulch with the burning natural gas nightland would be a pretty sweet setting for some game
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Jul 13, 2014 15:21
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Phil Niekro posted:William Hope Hardbody
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Jul 13, 2014 15:23
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SniperWoreConverse posted:nah it's a pretty sweet idea. I think someone said that it was the first post apocalyptic book. I just laughed my rear end off when he saves his ~tru luv~ and then has to beat her for being naughty. Like not even in a sexual way. And they're in the middle of the goddamn nightland, they could die at any second. And she's so goddamn weak and useless. Also he totally abandons all the other surviors like a dickhead. dead serious the john c wright stories are real great the rewrite also reduces nani's stupidity and it seems more like she has a breakdown due to everyone she's ever known dying the introduction about mirdath or whatever being a complete bitch still didn't make a lot of sense
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Jul 13, 2014 15:25
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Fun fact: Stephen King's The Mist directly influenced/ inspired Half-Life.
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Jul 13, 2014 15:41
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Fun fact: Stephen King's The Mist directly influenced/ inspired Half-Life. i'm not sure who's more stupid the dude that killed his gay son or the autist who can't talk and has scientists lead him around with a carrot
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Jul 13, 2014 15:44
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Neurosis posted:i'm not sure who's more stupid that's from the movie, the book had a different ending SK says he likes the movie ending more than his but he also loves the dogshit Under the Dome TV show so IDK
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Jul 13, 2014 15:47
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John Wyndham from the 50's. Guy who wrote Day of the Triffids and Midwhich Cuckoos His short story collections like Trouble with Lichen, Seeds of Time are good. Also Stephen King's short story books of you haven't. They are awesome, Skeleton Crew & Night Shift specifically. The Running man
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Jul 13, 2014 15:59
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...of SCIENCE! posted:the horror of Pet Sematary comes from dealing with the inevitable mortality of your loved ones rather than scary zombies and forest monsters I read Pet Semetary when i was 14, and what you describe is what really freaked me the gently caress out from it. I don't think it was excessively long, about average for one of his books.
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Jul 13, 2014 21:56
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If you're into Clive Barker, Weaveworld is pretty neat. http://www.amazon.com/Weaveworld-Clive-Barker/dp/0743417356/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1405286296&sr=1-1&keywords=weaveworld
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Jul 13, 2014 22:18
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read house of leaves if your idea of horror is the references section of a wikipedia article about spooky geometry written by a schizo pinning for his bosses girlfriend i guess
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Jul 13, 2014 22:45
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Necros posted:read house of leaves if your idea of horror is the references section of a wikipedia article about spooky geometry written by a schizo pinning for his bosses girlfriend i guess That sounds loving horrific but not in the desired way
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Jul 13, 2014 22:49
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I like the Carnacki The Ghost Finder short stories. Carnacki is basically Sherlock Holmes except he investigates paranormal events and haunted locations for rich people using a combination of ancient sorcery and modern technology. The author had to go and get himself killed in WW1 so there's only nine stories but most of them are pretty good and the worst ones are still decent. Read the Whistling Room, that's some freaky poo poo.
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Jul 13, 2014 22:57
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write a book. it may or may not sell, but that's irrelevant. if you do become successful, put me on the filler pages, and tell people. force beats brute.
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Jul 13, 2014 23:00
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Neurosis posted:The rewrite of Nightland by Stoddard is pretty good too the cover art for the actual book is prob one of the worst covers ever made. sits proudly in my bookshelf
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Jul 13, 2014 23:06
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Six-Of-Hearts posted:I read Pet Semetary when i was 14, and what you describe is what really freaked me the gently caress out from it. Pet Sematary is one of those books that is a totally different experience depending on what stage of your life you're in when you read it. I can't imagine what it must be like to read it as a parent.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Pet Sematary is one of those books that is a totally different experience depending on what stage of your life you're in when you read it. It came out when I was a toddler and reading it put my mom off Stephen King forever
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Jul 14, 2014 00:30
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look within.
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Jul 14, 2014 00:51
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i assume people have already mentioned "John Dies at the End" and "This Book is Full of Spiders"? cause those are good
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Jul 14, 2014 00:57
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Barker's The Damnation Game is a pretty decent "don't gently caress around with necromancers" tale.
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A misanthrope posted:i assume people have already mentioned "John Dies at the End" and "This Book is Full of Spiders"? 
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Jul 14, 2014 01:11
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A misanthrope posted:
It's so great David Wong's old site, Pointless Waste of Time, used to be linked on SA's front page so in a roundabout way John Dies At The End is the original Goon novel
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Jul 14, 2014 01:17
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...of SCIENCE! posted:It's so great please no one hold that against it because it's pretty good lol
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Jul 14, 2014 01:18
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House of Leaves would have worked better as a short story. I read it a while ago so I just looked it up and I was surprised it's over 700 pages long. Gimmicks aside, there just didn't seem to be enough actual content to justify the length. Maybe some people would say having it just as a short story would have defeated the purpose but I disagree.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I like the Carnacki The Ghost Finder short stories. Carnacki is basically Sherlock Holmes except he investigates paranormal events and haunted locations for rich people using a combination of ancient sorcery and modern technology. The author had to go and get himself killed in WW1 so there's only nine stories but most of them are pretty good and the worst ones are still decent. Read the Whistling Room, that's some freaky poo poo. plus look at this cover 
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Does anyone remember those "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" books with the absolutely creepy drawings by Stephen Gammell? Those drawings were the stuff of nightmares. http://tinyurl.com/nrg6pnz Apparently they reissued those books but without Alvin Shwartz' stunning drawings. Makes sense -- they're pretty UN-PC today as kid's material.
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Neurosis posted:I liked the croning and thought it was creepy the only problem I had was it was obvious it was a short story writer's first novel and was paced oddly because of it Basically the pacing, it could've easily been at most a short novella. The Light is the Darkness is a quicker and much more engaging read and covers some of the same territory, but with gladiator battles. Anyways Hugh B Cave's early short stories are excellent. Check out Murgunstrumm and Others and the stories he wrote for the horror pulp magazines in the 30's, which had some of the best cover art and story titles ever.    
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