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Bilirubin posted:Wounds trailer is out. Can I post it here or should it go TVIV? 
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COOL CORN posted:Oh poo poo, I saw a poster for that, is it based on the Balingrud book? Based upon the horror novella, The Visible Filth, by Nathan Ballingrud
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Sep 30, 2019 17:50
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21NsBTI6kHY The trailer owns.
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Sep 30, 2019 17:50
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Flaggy posted:Based upon the horror novella, The Visible Filth, by Nathan Ballingrud Not, you know, "Wounds", by Nathan Ballingrud?? edit-- Ah, I just watched the trailer. The Visible Filth is a better name  but yeah you're right
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Sep 30, 2019 17:54
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COOL CORN posted:Not, you know, "Wounds", by Nathan Ballingrud?? I was just copying what I saw on the IMBD page. But Wounds does indeed own.
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Sep 30, 2019 17:59
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That trailer looks good but I'm a bit sad we're not getting satanist pirates.
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Sep 30, 2019 18:33
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Tim Curran wrote two novellas set in the Dead Sea world. The novel was pretty good, if overly long, so hopefully keeping the stories at novella length will fix that problem.
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Sep 30, 2019 23:59
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bloom posted:That trailer looks good but I'm a bit sad we're not getting satanist pirates. True, but we're getting angels instead, and how could that be bad?
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Oct 1, 2019 00:21
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fauna posted:starfish was disappointing I should have been more clear that the underwater part of Starfish is super interesting and then it kinda falls apart, sorry. Just make sure to follow the advice of whoever upthread said to never read the sequels. They go from disappointing to unreadable exploitative garbage.
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Oct 1, 2019 02:30
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it had a great first half but then just didn't really go anywhere with it. and it set up this amazing character-driven psychological horror scenario and then just didn't follow through on that at all either. it all just kind of fizzled out!
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Ornamented Death posted:Tim Curran wrote two novellas set in the Dead Sea world. The novel was pretty good, if overly long, so hopefully keeping the stories at novella length will fix that problem. This made my day. Curran badly needs an editor who will restrain his descriptive excesses but for sheer visceral fun he rarely disappoints.
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Oct 1, 2019 04:41
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Esme posted:I should have been more clear that the underwater part of Starfish is super interesting and then it kinda falls apart, sorry. Just make sure to follow the advice of whoever upthread said to never read the sequels. They go from disappointing to unreadable exploitative garbage.
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Oct 1, 2019 05:19
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I really liked that authors space novels. Blindsight was amazing and echopraxia was...a thing.
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Oct 1, 2019 09:25
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l33tfuzzbox posted:I really liked that authors space novels. Blindsight was amazing and echopraxia was...a thing.
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Oct 1, 2019 11:32
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fauna posted:i haven't read any of his other stuff but i've heard people talk about his cool hard-sci vampires, i'm guessing the background for those is they're descended from the survivors of the underwater crazy people program from starfish? iirc they're based on a now-debunked anthropological theory regarding an extinct offshoot of homo sapiens that predated on the rest of them
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Oct 1, 2019 17:02
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Oxxidation posted:iirc they're based on a now-debunked anthropological theory regarding an extinct offshoot of homo sapiens that predated on the rest of them 
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Oct 1, 2019 17:06
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clan of the cave bear is still the closest to reality imo
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Oxxidation posted:iirc they're based on a now-debunked anthropological theory regarding an extinct offshoot of homo sapiens that predated on the rest of them
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Oct 1, 2019 17:09
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i guess now i can swipe that concept for my own wretched use
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Oct 1, 2019 17:11
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Looking for a short story collection to read through for spooky month. Loved the Weird but not necessarily looking for weird-specific. I’m not into splatter/torture type stuff. Last year I read 999: New Stories of Horror and it was very hit and miss.
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Oct 4, 2019 06:27
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FastestGunAlive posted:Looking for a short story collection to read through for spooky month. Loved the Weird but not necessarily looking for weird-specific. I’m not into splatter/torture type stuff. Last year I read 999: New Stories of Horror and it was very hit and miss. Bluegrass Symphony by Lisa L. Hannett
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Oct 4, 2019 12:25
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FastestGunAlive posted:Looking for a short story collection to read through for spooky month. Loved the Weird but not necessarily looking for weird-specific. I’m not into splatter/torture type stuff. Last year I read 999: New Stories of Horror and it was very hit and miss. just finished "The Inhabitant Of The Lake and Less Welcome Tenants" by Ramsey Campbell and its very enjoyable - but pretty meat and potatos weird Cthulhuverse fiction
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Oct 4, 2019 12:38
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FastestGunAlive posted:Looking for a short story collection to read through for spooky month. Loved the Weird but not necessarily looking for weird-specific. I’m not into splatter/torture type stuff. Last year I read 999: New Stories of Horror and it was very hit and miss. nathan balingrund's north american lake monsters m. r. james collected ghost stories thomas ligotti teatro grotesco or songs of a dead dreamer and grimscribe robert aickman, compulsory games or, honestly, anything
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Oct 4, 2019 21:49
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beef pork goat
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Oct 6, 2019 02:24
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beef pork goat
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Oct 6, 2019 02:27
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beef pork goat (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 6, 2019 02:28
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nonsense
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Oct 6, 2019 04:55
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I just finished Lake Monsters and it's as great as everybody says. It really reignited my love of horror shorts; every story is just long enough to make its point and get creepy without getting bogged down in "Why is this happening" and capital P Plot. I think The Monsters of Heaven and The Good Husband were my favorites. Also, is there no ebook edition of Teatro Grottesco available anywhere or am I just blind?
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Oct 6, 2019 18:44
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Lester Shy posted:I just finished Lake Monsters and it's as great as everybody says. It really reignited my love of horror shorts; every story is just long enough to make its point and get creepy without getting bogged down in "Why is this happening" and capital P Plot. I think The Monsters of Heaven and The Good Husband were my favorites. Yeah it's weird, there's an italian one, and my library has an english ebook, but I can't buy it anywhere.
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Oct 7, 2019 17:14
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just read it in italian
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Oct 7, 2019 22:20
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Just read Wounds and North American Lake Monsters, and enjoyed the former more than the latter. Both were fine, but it all reminds me a little too much of Clive Barker-style horror which isn't really my favorite. I think I enjoy horror more, even short horror, when the protagonist has redeeming qualities of any sort.
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Oct 7, 2019 23:21
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imagine needing to like the protagonist in order to enjoy a piece of fiction lol
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Oct 8, 2019 03:40
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If I like the horror protagonist I just feel really bad when they die and/or get eternally tormented. That's fine in small doses, but too much for me to deal with all the time. But if it's someone like Sam Strutt from Ramsey Campbell's "Cold Print," it's really satisfying when they get their just deserts. 
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Oct 8, 2019 03:57
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N-N-N-NINE BREAKER posted:Yeah it's weird, there's an italian one, and my library has an english ebook, but I can't buy it anywhere. I bought the ebook on Amazon in 2015 and can still download it to my Kindle but it doesnt show up for purchase any more, very strange. Owlkill fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Oct 8, 2019 |
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Oct 8, 2019 09:02
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alf_pogs posted:just finished "The Inhabitant Of The Lake and Less Welcome Tenants" by Ramsey Campbell and its very enjoyable - but pretty meat and potatos weird Cthulhuverse fiction I'd recommend "Dark Companions" by Campbell - seems to mostly stick to regular supernatural rather than Cthulhuverse. I'm currently reading "Demons by Daylight: Supernatural Fictions", which is somewhat inaccurately titled given that at least two of the stories have regular non-spooky humans as the source of the horror. I hear a lot about Campbell being a writer of Mythos fiction but somehow I seem to have avoided that in what I've read of him so far, though I've only got those two collections. He's very good at evoking a particularly British dinginess that somehow really adds to to the creeping grimness, I find. And some good folk horror themes too.
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Owlkill posted:I'd recommend "Dark Companions" by Campbell - seems to mostly stick to regular supernatural rather than Cthulhuverse. yeah i quite like him. all of the mythos stuff he wrote i think when he was quite young, and i'm glad he got away from it a bit. his dirty, diabolic and grimey britain is way more fun. i love the settings in The Nameless, all these odd derelicts in the middle of dense areas, hidden in plain sight
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Oct 8, 2019 09:31
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Just finished Songs of a Dead Dreamer. I don't know if I have anything unique to say about it, but I loved it, and I could probably reread it right now and discover tons of new details. I don't have much experience with "weird" fiction. I've read a smattering of Lovecraft, but he never really grabbed me. Ligotti's stories are much more evocative and relatable, but they also feel like dreams themselves; you're entranced while you're reading them, but they start to slip through your fingers after you wake up. I've always been fascinated by dreams. Ligotti and David Lynch are two of the few artists who've been able to capture how a nightmare really feels to me. I rarely have nightmares where a big monster is chasing me and I learn some plot-relevant facts about my life, but walking down an unfamiliar street, not knowing how you got there and spotting an obscure figure in the glow of a street lamp is extremely my poo poo.
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Oct 9, 2019 21:12
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Is there any must-read Michael McDowell after Blackwater and The Elementals? I just read Cold Moon Over Babylon and found it paled in comparison, and the synopses of his other books don't seem that appealing.
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Oct 10, 2019 10:03
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snoremac posted:Is there any must-read Michael McDowell after Blackwater and The Elementals? I just read Cold Moon Over Babylon and found it paled in comparison, and the synopses of his other books don't seem that appealing. Joke answer: Beetlejuice. Real answer: I haven't read much more than those two but they're pretty universally pointed out as his best work. edit: apparently he also wrote the story for The Nightmare Before Christmas so I guess the man had a much bigger impact on my childhood than I thought. Now I want to track down the episodes of Tales from the Crypt/Darkside he wrote for curiosity's sake. MockingQuantum fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Oct 10, 2019 |
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Oct 10, 2019 16:44
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Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart is currently two dollars on Kindle. Is it worth it?
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No. edit: Wait, is that the first one? Then yes, I guess, if you don't mind it's just body horror.
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