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Did Kathe Koja write anything noteworthy beyond The Cipher ? Trying to top-up an amazon order by looking at reviews for her other books, but then people in the comments seem to mostly dislike The Cipher, which is obviously a bad opinion.
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 15:46 |
Kestral posted:Any recommendations for stand-out horror in audiobook format, either books or short story collections? I have to do most of my reading on audio these days, and horror is especially tricky to do right in that format: I was looking forward to Wounds, for example, but some of the narrators are terrible fits for the material. I really liked the narration and stories in 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 20:10 |
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abdominal crisis lol i love that man
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 01:32 |
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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unpacked robinhood posted:Did Kathe Koja write anything noteworthy beyond The Cipher ? It’s been a while but liked Bad Brains and Strange Angels, though they’re not really horror, more the horror of massive brain injuries and schizophrenia. Skin and Kink were okay though I don’t remember much about them.
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 03:31 |
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iirc ligotti's abdominally critical character passed out and was rushed to hospital in the middle of a book signing is that what actually happened
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 03:49 |
Fallom posted:Mainly the titular one. What was the monster supposed to represent? Why did its substance adhere to the father, and what was the significance of the glow that animals carried away from it as they devoured it? What's the meaning of how the daughter saw the monster when she made her drawing? Is there a horror element here beyond the father struggling to reintegrate with his family after leaving prison and falling back on his (self) abusive behavior? I regret this question has not engendered more discussion. I'm really not sure whether the first question is at all appropriate though? I suspect that this might be a situation where trying to impose an "explanation" on something that is so much larger and, frankly, non human, will lead to the overwhelming dissonance experienced by the father. Somethings just are, and have no reason, ya know? The other way of approaching it would be how the unexamined life and traumas of the father perpetuates a cycle of abuse, vs. an unknowable thing that the father struggles to first understand, then get rid of, in disastrous failure, might be another way out
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 04:01 |
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Kestral posted:Any recommendations for stand-out horror in audiobook format, either books or short story collections? I have to do most of my reading on audio these days, and horror is especially tricky to do right in that format: I was looking forward to Wounds, for example, but some of the narrators are terrible fits for the material. The Dark Worlds of HP Lovecraft might be an obvious suggestion, but since you don't list it I'll mention it just in case. Even if you're not a Lovecraft fan, the narrator(Wayne June) is a joy to listen to.
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 05:16 |
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bloom posted:The Dark Worlds of HP Lovecraft might be an obvious suggestion, but since you don't list it I'll mention it just in case. Even if you're not a Lovecraft fan, the narrator(Wayne June) is a joy to listen to. Wayne June is a gift. Seconding this. I'm meh on reading Lovecraft but whoa Wayne June's voice.
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 05:39 |
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nankeen posted:iirc ligotti's abdominally critical character passed out and was rushed to hospital in the middle of a book signing It was a painter showing his work at a gallery iirc. The rest of the book makes several mentions of his gastrointestinal ordeal.
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 08:11 |
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C2C - 2.0 posted: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. I enjoyed it. Sefira was weak for me and there was one other I didn't particularly care for but Bloom really got me.
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I listen to Pseudopod. It's a weekly horror fiction podcast in case you don't know. You should check it out, it's great. They recently did 'I Hate All that is Mine' by Leigh Harlen. It was printed in Lost Films. Have any of you read that anthology? I really enjoyed that particular story and was wondering if the rest of the collection holds up. Sorry for the double post.
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 12:19 |
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unpacked robinhood posted:It was a painter showing his work at a gallery iirc. The rest of the book makes several mentions of his gastrointestinal ordeal.
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 14:40 |
quote:Often at the conclusion of an author interview, a question is posed, one that allows the subject to announce or promote forthcoming projects and publications. In the case of Thomas Ligotti, the response has invariably been to the effect that he never has any idea what he is going to produce in the future, if anything. Since he began publishing in the early 1980s, this answer has perhaps seemed somewhat disingenuous. Some may have thought that it was an affectation or diversionary tactic. After all, books under his name have since appeared on a somewhat regular, if not exactly prolific, schedule. But as the years went by, it became more and more apparent that Ligotti’s output was at best haphazard. A chapbook here, a slim or full-fledged story collection there, a book of poetry or unclassifiable prose out of nowhere, and then at some point a quasi-academic statement of his philosophical ideas and attitudes. Such a scattered crop of writings is not unheard-of, but for one who toils in the genre of horror, whose practitioners are commonly hard at work on a daily basis, it does seem as paltry as it is directionless.
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 16:01 |
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i like to imagine ligotti communicating with his publishers exclusively via webcam and most of the calls are just the camera pointing out into a dark room full of mannequins while the great man makes strange whimpering noises in the background
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# ? Aug 7, 2019 01:48 |
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And the room is lit solely by old carnival signs
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# ? Aug 7, 2019 01:53 |
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COOL CORN posted:And the room is lit solely by old carnival signs E-S-S-E-N-C-E LOUNGE LOUNGE LOUNGE BEEF PORK GOAT BEEF PORK GOAT at semi-appropriate moments i find myself thinking "obsessed with the meat nonsense, the beef-pork-goat nonsense, and the death nonsense, the very worst sort of nonsense" nankeen fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Aug 7, 2019 |
# ? Aug 7, 2019 01:55 |
conceptual separation of the fictional narrator from the real author is a pretty standard bit of dogma in literary criticism which absolutely does not in any way apply to ligotti
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# ? Aug 7, 2019 02:27 |
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chernobyl kinsman posted:conceptual separation of the fictional narrator from the real author is a pretty standard bit of dogma in literary criticism which absolutely does not in any way apply to ligotti
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# ? Aug 7, 2019 02:37 |
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only compassion stops me from writing a story where ligotti travels back in time and meets hp lovecraft, tries to engage him in discussion about the universe and lovecraft is all "...begone from my sight you lugubrious pole!!"
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# ? Aug 7, 2019 02:39 |
(the sinking city)
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# ? Aug 7, 2019 03:13 |
it's very true to the source material. https://twitter.com/BAKKOOONN/status/1148371138751295488
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# ? Aug 7, 2019 03:24 |
Got my hands on a copy of Wounds, wish me luck, heading in
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# ? Aug 7, 2019 05:21 |
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Bilirubin posted:Got my hands on a copy of Wounds, wish me luck, heading in Wear an iron box over your head and you’ll be okay.
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# ? Aug 7, 2019 09:27 |
Fire Safety Doug posted:Wear an iron box over your head and you’ll be okay. Finally was able to get to it and after the first story I understand this now Its good.
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# ? Aug 18, 2019 20:47 |
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Bilirubin posted:Finally was able to get to it and after the first story I understand this now It really is.
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# ? Aug 19, 2019 09:26 |
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Crossposting(ish) from the "what did you just finish" thread, but I finally finished Teatro Grottesco and... man I was really running out of steam near the end. I think it's just the nature of his short story style, but by the end it started to feel formulaic - at least the way he plays with nihilism and despair as sources of horror. Each story started to feel like "hi, I'm [x] the insignificant person. Let me tell you about another person I know. They told me nothing is meaningful, and I saw some weird things by hanging around this person. That person disappeared and now I agree nothing matters." Ligotti is a bit of a one-trick pony it seems (judging only from this book), but I must say, the trick he does is VERY GOOD. I want to read more of his stuff, but I need a break. Maybe North American River Monsters next!
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# ? Aug 19, 2019 13:59 |
Lake Monsters. Rivers are mostly not deep enough to have very good monsters. Just saying. edit: So the third story, Skullpocket Fair, had a very Matthew Bartlett feel to it to me. Not so much in the writing--Bartlett tends to be dream-like snippets whereas this is a loving well-grounded story, but the theme of New England children off for some use by a mysterious gentleman from the underworld and the village cowered and submissive to this need. edit edit: I am really loving Wounds but it is really lacking the power of the first book IMO
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 02:19 |
Mix. Holy poo poo
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 04:00 |
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COOL CORN posted:I think it's just the nature of his short story style, but by the end it started to feel formulaic
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 05:23 |
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Bilirubin posted:Lake Monsters. Rivers are mostly not deep enough to have very good monsters. Just saying. Doh, good catch. I meant Lake Monsters. nankeen posted:that's his thing lol, he is an actual crazy person obsessively writing the same story over and over Oh poo poo that actually makes a lot of sense now.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 13:46 |
Though everyone should read the forum's resident favorite North American river monster book, Blackwater. It's such a good
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 15:52 |
MockingQuantum posted:Though everyone should read the forum's resident favorite North American river monster book, Blackwater. It's such a good
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 17:00 |
MockingQuantum posted:Though everyone should read the forum's resident favorite North American river monster book, Blackwater. It's such a good the elementals is better imo
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 17:22 |
you guys really need to read crampton, the teleplay that ligotti wrote, unsolicited, for the x-files
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 17:26 |
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chernobyl kinsman posted:you guys really need to read crampton, the teleplay that ligotti wrote, unsolicited, for the x-files hahaha I love this man
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 17:40 |
chernobyl kinsman posted:the elementals is better imo Agreed, everyone should read that too. Doesn't have river monsters though.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 18:51 |
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chernobyl kinsman posted:you guys really need to read crampton, the teleplay that ligotti wrote, unsolicited, for the x-files i cant find it anywhere for less than like $200
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# ? Aug 21, 2019 02:43 |
Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:i cant find it anywhere for less than like $200 it was never published; it’s online as a pdf
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# ? Aug 21, 2019 05:02 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 15:46 |
chernobyl kinsman posted:it was never published; it’s online as a pdf At least one limited edition printing exists, by Dutro if I'm not mistaken.
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