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StrixNebulosa posted:https://www.humblebundle.com/books/supermassive-scifi-fantasy-horror-tachyon-books That Kiernan collection includes Interstate Love Song which is worth price of admission alone, even if Kiernan isn't your thing
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Since we're doing our periodic Wounds love-fest, does anyone have any other recommendations for books that take place in/deal with literal hell? I've read a few like City Infernal and Soma, but neither are books I'd recommend to others.
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I wanted to read the first chapter of Carrier Wave to see what it was like and it was just so good that I've decided to read it before Wounds. drat it's good so far.
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Untrustable posted:I wanted to read the first chapter of Carrier Wave to see what it was like and it was just so good that I've decided to read it before Wounds. drat it's good so far. I too am enjoying this friend
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Mar 5, 2021 06:42
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Finished up Carrier Wave. What a sprawling epic that was. It instantly jumped to the #1 spot of 2021 for me. It's so sweeping while also super focused on the characters. It's a long read, but very worth it.
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Mar 5, 2021 12:25
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You inhaled that thing! I just read the chapter War Bastard and had to step away. Its really good.
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Mar 5, 2021 21:52
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Bilirubin posted:You inhaled that thing! I'm unemployed and spend time reviewing indie horror games and books. I try to finish 3-5 books a week. I'm one story into Wounds right now. I went ahead and picked up all the other suggestions.
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Untrustable posted:I'm unemployed and spend time reviewing indie horror games and books. I try to finish 3-5 books a week. I'm one story into Wounds right now. I went ahead and picked up all the other suggestions. How do I get that job?
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Mar 6, 2021 03:54
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Just start doing it on Twitter, Steam, Goodreads, etc. and hope you pick up some kind of following. There's not enough money in it to make a living. I guess if you monetized your tweets or ran a successful website that you could push ads on you could make some money. I was working a full-time job last month before I lost it, and now I read books, play games, work on my home renovation, and chill. I'll find another job eventually. Until then, good books.
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Untrustable posted:I'm unemployed and spend time reviewing indie horror games and books. I try to finish 3-5 books a week. I'm one story into Wounds right now. I went ahead and picked up all the other suggestions. Since you’re consuming so much horror right now, any deep cut recommendations?
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Untrustable posted:Just start doing it on Twitter, Steam, Goodreads, etc. and hope you pick up some kind of following. There's not enough money in it to make a living. I guess if you monetized your tweets or ran a successful website that you could push ads on you could make some money. I was working a full-time job last month before I lost it, and now I read books, play games, work on my home renovation, and chill. I'll find another job eventually. Until then, good books. Jealous
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Mar 6, 2021 05:09
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The best thing about consistently reviewing books is that eventually publishers will start sending you books. The worst thing about consistently reviewing books is that eventually publishers will start sending you so many books you can't actually read them all.
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Conrad_Birdie posted:Since you’re consuming so much horror right now, any deep cut recommendations? Book-wise I'm reading Wounds as suggested by the thread (Skullpocket is a pretty dope dark fairytale of sorts). I also really enjoyed Obscura by Joe Hart. Game-wise go check out recently released Cruelty Squad, Lakeview Cabin 1&2, Search Party, Murder House, or Buddy Simulator 1984. You can always PM for a weird horror game recommendation, as they generally take less time to form an opinion on than reading a full novel or short story collection.
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Mar 6, 2021 06:35
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I’m like 2/3 of the way through carrier wave and the biggest terror of the book is watching the percentage left tick away and acknowledging that this book is gonna end. It’s a long book but it could be twice as long and I’d eagerly gobble it up. I want more of this world and I’m conflicted between wanting to read more immediately and not wanting it to end.
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Mar 9, 2021 05:19
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Gosh dang it okay y’all convinced me I’ll buy Carrier Wave.
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I had that same problem where I was like, "it's only at 40% done, good. Lots of book left." *What seemed like 10 minutes later* "86% what the gently caress?"
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MockingQuantum posted:I haven't read it yet, but TE Grau's I Am the River is set in North Vietnam during the end of the war. I think someone in here read it though. Bilirubin maybe?
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Mar 11, 2021 14:38
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Has anyone read this? https://www.amazon.com.mx/Horrorsto...15521694&sr=8-1 I want to know if the unusual format is used nicely.
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Mar 13, 2021 00:59
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Mr. Nemo posted:Has anyone read this? The audiobook was fun but I can't say anything about the format. I had no idea it was something special until long after I heard it
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Mar 13, 2021 01:04
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Len posted:The audiobook was fun but I can't say anything about the format. I had no idea it was something special until long after I heard it Oh, that's interesting. I actually found it through a list of "books that won't work on kindle" lol. Glad to hear your experience with it was pleasant. hopefully the physical book will add even more to it.
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Mr. Nemo posted:Oh, that's interesting. I actually found it through a list of "books that won't work on kindle" lol. Glad to hear your experience with it was pleasant. hopefully the physical book will add even more to it. Oddly enough, I read this on a kindle. Don't remember any weird formatting, unless they're talking about the pictures/diagrams. I liked it alot, so any formatting issues didn't detract from it
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Mar 13, 2021 02:29
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Mr. Nemo posted:Has anyone read this? There was discussion of it a while back in the thread. I liked it because I kinda dig that sort of horror story where you can’t trust your senses. I also liked the evolution of the catalog items as things progressed. Mid late ending spoilers: it got a lot less good when it tried to explain things, but then the climax and epiloguey bit was pretty ok I think I read it on an iPad and had no trouble with weird formatting
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Mar 13, 2021 02:41
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The formatting is fine with the ebook but I think it's best read as a print copy, since the most unique thing about it is the presentation. It's basically closer to a coffee-table book with a novel inside than the other way around, iirc. The book itself is a perfectly fine horror story that doesn't try to do anything terribly unique. I'd say it's probably Hendrix's weakest book to date, though I wasn't crazy about Southern Book Club either. Ultimately, it's a neat artifact as a print book, and I'm not certain I'd get enough out of it to pay for it as an ebook. I got the ebook from the library purely out of curiosity.
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Yeah, the formatting on Horrorstor is fun, although it's not extensive -- you get the catalog form factor, one catalog blurb per chapter, and a few in-universe ads, but most of it is just a novel. I was a little disappointed by that, but overall it's a decent book, if a bit light and basic.
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Ah yeah I got Horrorstör from a Humble Bundle way back and read it on my Kindle. I really enjoyed it and would like a sequel. I noticed no issues on my Kindle version. I liked the weird catalogue stuff.
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I don’t know if it’s horror, it doesn’t neatly conform to any genre I can think of (really dark fantasy history???), but we had a power outage recently so I ate through The Drawing of the Dark by candlelight at an insane rate and liked it a lot. It’s about a former mercenary in the 1500’s who winds up at the Siege of Vienna but then there’s all sorts of gribblies and weird poo poo that come out of the works. Pretty good. From a modern perspective it could be read as anti-Muslim but it’s far from overt and the book came out in 79 so I’m assuming that’s just aging and if you asked Tim Powers about it you’d get some variation on, “Yeah, sorry, a big West vs East conflict looks bad now but I can’t predict politics in 40 years. My bad.” Plus some really good sword fights.
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Kinda bottomed out on Wounds after The Visible Filth. I figure I'll start on Night Film.
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Untrustable posted:Kinda bottomed out on Wounds after The Visible Filth. I figure I'll start on Night Film. I liked Night Film a lot, even if it has atmosphere than solid ooks and spooks. My go-to way of recommending it is that I was 3/4 through it and proctoring a final, and I got so wrapped up that when a student handed in their finished exam I was actually pretty annoyed. I'm not a jerk professor, I just was really that engaged.
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Untrustable posted:Kinda bottomed out on Wounds after The Visible Filth. I figure I'll start on Night Film. FWIW I thought The Visible Filth was the lowest point in Wounds, and the general feeling is The Butcher's Table is the most unique story in the collection. It was definitely my favorite and I genuinely think if you quit after Visible Filth you're missing out on the highlight of the book.
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I'll read Butchers Table but drat The Visible Filth is probably the worst Ballingrud by a mile. Story threads left hanging all over the place while he fawns over pseudo-religious bullshit and gore. It feels incomplete and unsatisfying. It's like 3 stories mashed together that barely made sense already. The other stories are so good though!
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I really want more stuff like the Butcher's Table. Seems like a ripe time period and setting for this kind of horror. On Stranger Tides was pretty good but obviously not quite the same.
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I liked Visible Filth (still it might be the low point in the collection), but The Butcher’s Table is a masterpiece in novella form.
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Echoing what everyone said. I almost feel like The Visible Filth reads like a parody of Ballingrud’s worst tendencies. Didn’t like it at all, it feels empty and unfinished. That being said, do yourself a favor and keep reading Bc you’ll be getting to read The Butcher’s Table for the first time and that’s something you shouldn’t voluntarily give up. Also if anyone ITT hasn’t yet read The Other Side of the Mountain by Michel Bernanos, and you like the nautical horror of Butcher and Stranger Tides, you should seek it out. The entire novella is available in “The Weird” anthology, with a great translation by Thomas Merton. It was one of those things where I started reading it late at night because I didn’t realize how long it was, and I just wanted to read a lil spooky story before bed, and then I ended up staying awake till 1 in the morning because I had to finish it all in one sitting. It is one of the most underrated horror novels out there IMO. Wild it is not talked about or known about more widely. Also I was loving Blackwater so much I decided I needed to own the story in its original form, so now in addition to the lovely one-volume edition from Valancourt, I also have the six original paperback novellas it was printed as. I am so happy to add them to my collection.
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Conrad_Birdie posted:Echoing what everyone said. I almost feel like The Visible Filth reads like a parody of Ballingrud’s worst tendencies. Didn’t like it at all, it feels empty and unfinished. The Other Side of the Mountain is fantastic, I had it recommended to me and went looking for a copy for about a week and a half before I realized I already had it in The Weird. I want more fiction like that and The Butcher's Table. I'd say On Stranger Tides but I had a hard time enjoying that book, it felt weirdly lifeless to me. My hopes were probably set too high. More weird/horror nautical fiction!
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The Visible Filth is probably the oldest story in the collection and had been published elsewhere before being included in Wounds (as I understand it). I thought it read like Ballingrud writign in the style of Laird Barron myself. I thought the creep factor was high, both for good and ill. I liked parts of The Butcher's Table a whole lot but my standout story in Wounds was The Love Machine. Butcher's table seemed a little twee to me and lacked a lot of the psychological element that makes me so fond of his writing..
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Bilirubin posted:The Visible Filth is probably the oldest story in the collection and had been published elsewhere before being included in Wounds (as I understand it). It was published as a chapbook four years earlier.
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I love Brian Hodge and have been wanting to read World of Hurt. Through random googling, I see Earthling Publications seems to have copies. I know they are fancier and such, but is Earthing a reputable site?
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I'm about halfway through the cipher and it's loving
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I'm doing research for a project involving Tennessee (specifically the southeast border) and I'm looking for some creepy materials on rural southern Appalachia. Works by people native to the area would be a huge plus. Anything worth checking out? The exact location is kinda important, the border of the Tennessee Valley and the Blue Ridge Mountains is fairly significant to the work I'm doing and contains a lot of natural diversity. Really though, anything Appalachian is a thumbs up, fiction or otherwise. Classic ghost stories, monster stuff, hillbilly horror, all good good good. Also Ballingrud will never top Lake Monsters. It's his Teatro Grottesco.
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R.L. Stine posted:I'm doing research for a project involving Tennessee (specifically the southeast border) and I'm looking for some creepy materials on rural southern Appalachia. Works by people native to the area would be a huge plus. Anything worth checking out? The exact location is kinda important, the border of the Tennessee Valley and the Blue Ridge Mountains is fairly significant to the work I'm doing and contains a lot of natural diversity. Really though, anything Appalachian is a thumbs up, fiction or otherwise. Classic ghost stories, monster stuff, hillbilly horror, all good good good. I don't have books I can point to (they live in a box right now), but anything on Appalachian/Scotch-Irish folklore is gonna be a good start. Check out the Anthropology section out at your local library, or even better, a good college book-store.
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