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chernobyl kinsman posted:it would cause him to have an episode
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part of my urgency in trying to get in contact with ligotti is that he could literally die at any moment but then again, isn't that true for everyone?
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Feb 11, 2020 01:02
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sweet ligotti, the peasants call him the goddess of gloom
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Feb 11, 2020 01:12
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can't tell whether it is a property of Ligotti to make a random goon swoon after him like this every few months or if its just a series of reregs of the same goon 
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Feb 11, 2020 02:38
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grobbo posted:'I Have A Special Plan For This World' is a drat good 22 minutes of 'what if Thomas did spoken word?' I don't remember how I originally discovered this but it made a very strong impression on me. Everything about it is just superb. You would think 20 minute spoken word piece  but it's actually quite hypnotic.
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Feb 11, 2020 03:40
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TOOT BOOT posted:I don't remember how I originally discovered this but it made a very strong impression on me. Everything about it is just superb. Yeah, completely agreed. The use of repetition makes it end up feeling quite...beautiful and Beckettian in places, I think? Although I don't know how much Ligotti would acknowledge or accept that influence (he dismisses Kafka's Metamorphosis in one of his interviews, so it's probably just best to give up on making assumptions about the writers he likes). quote:He whispered
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Bilirubin posted:can't tell whether it is a property of Ligotti to make a random goon swoon after him like this every few months or if its just a series of reregs of the same goon
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Feb 11, 2020 09:45
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Bilirubin posted:can't tell whether it is a property of Ligotti to make a random goon swoon after him like this every few months or if its just a series of reregs of the same goon lol just lol if you can't spot avshalom's lust fantasies for Ligotti from a mile away at this point, what have you even been doing on the forums for the last six years?!
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Feb 11, 2020 16:43
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the way to get in touch with Thomas is to go to his fan forum and talk to one of the admins there. What I'm trying to say is getting in touch with Ligotti is kind of a Ligottian story in itself.
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Feb 11, 2020 19:21
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ravenkult posted:the way to get in touch with Thomas is to go to his fan forum and talk to one of the admins there. I thought you were just supposed to offer scraps of black cloth to a crow, then wait for a phone call.
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Feb 11, 2020 20:23
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ravenkult posted:the way to get in touch with Thomas is to go to his fan forum and talk to one of the admins there. have you been in touch with ligotti
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Feb 11, 2020 22:33
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 My Ligotti collection :3 Post yours in tribute to this unhappy man!
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Feb 11, 2020 22:40
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chernobyl kinsman posted:have you been in touch with ligotti A few years ago I wanted to interview him, an admin passed my email along to him
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Feb 11, 2020 23:00
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If he didn't format all his replies in the form of crude, lo-fi videos of puppets speaking in whispers then I'll be very disappointed.
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Feb 12, 2020 10:25
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i don't want to have sex with the man, i just want to get him high and talk about the holocaust
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Feb 12, 2020 11:18
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I feel like Ligotti wouldn't use any mind altering substances
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Feb 12, 2020 14:31
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COOL CORN posted:I feel like Ligotti wouldn't use any mind altering substances we will listen to the three released versions of leonard cohen's puppet song, one after the other, over and over for as long as it takes
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Feb 12, 2020 16:12
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the story where he is haunted by visions of a malevolent clown puppet the size of a man really touched me, both because of the meat nonsense but also when he describes the light turning rose gold before the vision commences, because that happens to me too
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Feb 12, 2020 16:14
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I'm picturing you sitting out in the sun with your quails reading Ligotti and occasionally reading choice passages aloud to them
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Feb 12, 2020 16:44
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chernobyl kinsman posted:the ruins is, and i am not being hyperbolic, one of the top 3 worst books i have ever read in my life All I remember is pissing and making GBS threads described in excruciating detail. Ariza posted:What other books or authors would y'all recommend that are similar to Adam Cesare? I think I've finished off his ouevre now and I like the shorter, simpler 80s horror movie aesthetic for listening to/reading at night time when I don't really want dense prose or trying to find layers to a story. Try Max Booth III
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Feb 13, 2020 21:47
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I don't understand much of the past few pages, but they somehow made me really excited to experience Ligotti. I ordered Teotro Grottesco
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Feb 13, 2020 23:10
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escape artist posted:I don't understand much of the past few pages, but they somehow made me really excited to experience Ligotti. I ordered Teotro Grottesco
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Feb 13, 2020 23:18
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Yeah it worked on me way back when and I don't regret it No Thomas Regrettis
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Feb 14, 2020 00:15
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escape artist posted:I don't understand much of the past few pages, but they somehow made me really excited to experience Ligotti. I ordered Teotro Grottesco one of us
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https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/PIA16881.wav This is what I imagine all Ligotti's audiobooks would sound.
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Feb 14, 2020 09:15
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The Special Plan is retrogenesis
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I have an Audible credit I need to use. What's cool that I can get on Audible? edit-- I can get the complete Blackwater for 1 credit, that's like 30 hours of content. Is it good? edit2-- Blackwater is part of a 2-for-1 sale right now so I got it. Thanks for coming on this journey with me. Count Thrashula fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Feb 14, 2020 |
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COOL CORN posted:I have an Audible credit I need to use. What's cool that I can get on Audible? Fyi if anyone here who isn't this satisfied customer is looking for a really well done audiobook, the sci-fi necromancer murder mystery Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir is just one of the best made audio books I've ever listened to. It's not quite full on horror but it has enough solid horror elements (there's necromancy for every body system, not just bones--vein and body fat based necromancy yiiiikes) that if you don't totally hate wacky space fiction it will scratch many horror fan itches. The monsters are disgusting and scary and the plot is very horror in a lot of ways (people keep dying in a mysterious goth af space mansion). It's probably my book of the year last year and the audio edition is just superb. I read way more horror than sci-fi these days and it bridges the gap between the two very well.
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Feb 14, 2020 18:15
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Oh poo poo I was just thinking about that book the other day! Ah well, I'll read that one next month.
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COOL CORN posted:Oh poo poo I was just thinking about that book the other day! Ah well, I'll read that one next month.
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anilEhilated posted:It really isn't horror as much as an action romp. Really fun action romp, mind you. Yeah but it had me at "lesbian necromancers" But drat y'all Blackwater is really good so far
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Feb 15, 2020 02:15
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Oh poo poo conspiracy against the human race is on Audible! Then again if it's not a man hysterically sobbing through the entire reading, it doesn't seem like it'd be proper Ligotti mood
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Anomalous Blowout posted:Fyi if anyone here who isn't this satisfied customer is looking for a really well done audiobook, the sci-fi necromancer murder mystery Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir is just one of the best made audio books I've ever listened to. It's not quite full on horror but it has enough solid horror elements (there's necromancy for every body system, not just bones--vein and body fat based necromancy yiiiikes) that if you don't totally hate wacky space fiction it will scratch many horror fan itches. The monsters are disgusting and scary and the plot is very horror in a lot of ways (people keep dying in a mysterious goth af space mansion). It's probably my book of the year last year and the audio edition is just superb. I read way more horror than sci-fi these days and it bridges the gap between the two very well. it's narrated by this person, who you may know if you're around my age. it turns out she's a great voice actor. 
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COOL CORN posted:Yeah but it had me at "lesbian necromancers" Just to temper expectations, Blackwater is loving amazing, but not "horror" in the traditional sense. More Southern Gothic lite family drama with monsters. If you're digging it off the bat, though, you'll probably like it all the way through.
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Feb 15, 2020 03:31
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Yeah the "weird"Ness of it is scratching the horror itch well enough, and it gets lumped into horror enough that I figured I could mention it in here.
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Feb 15, 2020 03:50
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The Alien 3 audible original is actually pretty cool btw
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Feb 15, 2020 07:28
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I wish I had the tools to describe how crazy good The Shaft was. It felt a bit like a Coen's movie with a supernatural twist. The writing is brilliant, the trainwreck full tilt in your face. One of my best reads in months.
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COOL CORN posted:Oh poo poo conspiracy against the human race is on Audible! Can you report into the thread on how it is? I've been mulling a reread, but listening to it could be nice
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Finally got around to finishing Hill House. I liked it! Thanks for the recommendations, thread. So if that and The Shining are my favorite spooky books, what’s next? My favorite aspect of a horror is the setting, specifically pretty, secluded places.
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Rolo posted:Finally got around to finishing Hill House. I liked it! Thanks for the recommendations, thread. mcdowell's the elementals
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