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i'm looking for some horror books to read suggest me some cosmic horror is best but i'm not picky
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ty for recommendations i have read ligotti, i actually didn't like teatro grottesco that much. his other stuff isn't available on kindle in australia so i can't read any of the others
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Jul 12, 2014 13:15
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I read the first book in the Southern Reach trilogy and liked it (Annihilation). Kinda like a modern scifi take on Lovecraft. The first and second books are out now and the last one should be out later this year. Yeah the second was p mediocre though Third comes out in like october I've already read a lot of the classics like machen and king in yellow and william hope hodgson
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Jul 12, 2014 17:43
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Borneo Jimmy posted:I read a few of Laird Barron's short stories and they were pretty good, but avoid his book The Croning. 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 Oh and the protagonist did not act like a man in his eighties What didn't you like
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Jul 13, 2014 03:33
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Pro tip the Awake in the Nightland anthology by John C Wright is a really good continuation of Hodgson's Nightland book (it ties into this book as well). The final story that ends the Nightland continuity is something else The rewrite of Nightland by Stoddard is pretty good too
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Jul 13, 2014 12:54
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i would gently caress hodgson too
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Jul 13, 2014 12:58
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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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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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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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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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!!!THE PATRIARCHY!!!
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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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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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Borneo Jimmy posted: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. he's doing a sequel to the croning with more sci fi elements hopefully it comes off a bit better
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Jul 15, 2014 05:14
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