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Good grief. That bad of an anthology, huh. That's too bad. Sometimes there are hidden little gems, and I like seeing what lesser known authors can share with the world. I'll still give it a go, eventually. Most anthologies only take me 2 or so hours to read, not really an difficult time investment.
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Ornamented Death posted:Themed anthologies have been around for decades. If you want collections, there are no shortage of them. ravenkult posted:Ah yes, the anthology, the lazy man's collection.  I shouldn't post after drinking, probate me for that it's okay. I deserve it. Honestly disregard that last dumb post I made. I know what I was trying to say and it wasn't even close to what came out. My bad.
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My problem with collections is I always have like a dozen half read ones I’m flipping between and then I can’t remember which were good to recommend to other people
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I'm reading Found because I liked the cover and holy poo poo this loving sucks. I'll finish Necroscope one of these days. Edit: No for real this story about Fox News is giving me brain damage. UwUnabomber fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Dec 21, 2022 |
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UwUnabomber posted:I'm reading Found because I liked the cover and holy poo poo this loving sucks. IT REALLY IS. IM SO SORRY. My friend gave me their ebook copy because they didn't want me to buy it and um. I feel the need to apologize for even mentioning it in this thread. It's... Whew. It's not good. The first warning sign was the true crime nonsense in the introduction. The cover really is the best part. Also Ally Wilkes's 'SUMMONS' story was the one gem. It did feel like a knock off, low budget 'Outer Limits' episode you find on public television. Goofy, bad wigs, stiff acting, the works. ACCIDENTS, OF A SORT” by Kurt Fawver was also interesting, if only because it reminded me of the one video from the 'Local 58' youtube series. The 'you have arrived at your destination' one, with the sudden appearance of a alien monster that attacks the car. I also liked “A GRAVE ISSUE” by Bev Vincent, if only because creepy weird books that cause murder is neat. And it did remind me of old SA forums ghost story threads. I think if the details were tweaked, it could have fit in with that one King In Yellow 'In the Court of the Yellow King' anthology edited by Glynn Owen Barrass. Actually "WALLS AND FLOORS AND BRICKS AND STONE” by Georgia Cook was a interesting concept, similarly flavored to the noteworthy Dioneae House creepypasta. I would want to see this fleshed out as a novella, and removed from the transcript setting. A haunted house that is a house haunting its occupants, that's neat. It even had some foreshadowing! Wow, absolutely amazing compared to the other stories, frankly. But other than those, nope. I can't say my interest was piqued to look for other works by these authors. It is a shame because, like I mentioned earlier, sometimes there's new authors to find through these anthologies. I can appreciate the few authors that attempted a varied medium, of screencapped text messages or attempts at pseudo forums posting. But the gimmick wasn't enough to save it. Well. I'm going to try Fungi anthology edited by Orrin Grey & Silvia Moreno-Garcia. It's got John Langan and Lavie Tidhar! It couldn't be much worse, right? How bad can you mess up fungi horror? Also, escape artist you have nothing to apologize for, it really is not good. You should get drunk and review books more lmao
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I sort of hiccup laughed out loud when I saw this, I don't know how it can't be awful but maybe that's the point.quote:Deadline reports Amazon Studios is developing a series based on Nick Cutter’s horror novel The Deep from Carlton Cuse and Antlers screenwriter C. Henry Chaisson. According to the book’s official synopsis, the story concerns “a strange plague called the ‘Gets’” that’s “decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget—small things at first, like where they left their keys, then the not-so-small things, like how to drive or the letters of the alphabet. Their bodies forget how to function involuntarily. There is no cure. But far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a universal healer hailed as ‘ambrosia’ has been discovered. In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab has been built eight miles under the sea’s surface. But when the station goes incommunicado, a brave few descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depths…and perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one could possibly imagine.” I hope whoever is making the Sphere TV show and also the Event Horizon TV show keep making them and do a good job
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General Battuta posted:I sort of hiccup laughed out loud when I saw this, I don't know how it can't be awful but maybe that's the point. Finally a tv adaptation of dick bees
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I'm the guy who really likes The Deep, but it's not a particularly long book, I hope by "series" they mean like a 3 episode miniseries or something. Definitely didn't expect that to get made before The Troop, though
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I found it too long, I had to tap out after 200 pages or so. Might watch the TV show just to see some cool underwater imagery
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Hi again. It's me. Instead of reading 'A History of Fear by Luke Dumas' I accidentally read something else because the title / author seemed close enough? I don't know, it's been a long holiday. Anyways, it was really great! It has eldritch / cosmic horror forest horror, to a degree hosed up generational family trauma historical and current time events rotating point of views human and animal body horror supernatural and more!!!! I would put it in the same recommended list for folk / eldritch horror as Revelator by Daryl Gregory. It's not entirely similar, beat by beat, of course. This book is a lot grittier and dour, imo. These people are a mess. But if you're in the mood for eldritch horror in a small town that involves a few generations of family, you'd probably like this. Here's the summary. The Hollow Kind - Andy Davidson quote:Andy Davidson’s epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by an ancient evil. Also hey, The Best Horror of the Year Volume Fourteen is out for this year! Woo! At least that's guaranteed to have some gems. Cough cough....
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Looking for another blog/transcript style story I read last year-four or five morons are recruited to keep tabs on the [Entity/anomaly] in the least specific terms possible, because it feeds off attention and curiosity, anyone know what I'm talking about? It was SCP-esque but I don't know if it was actually an SCP thing.
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von Metternich posted:Looking for another blog/transcript style story I read last year-four or five morons are recruited to keep tabs on the [Entity/anomaly] in the least specific terms possible, because it feeds off attention and curiosity, anyone know what I'm talking about? It was SCP-esque but I don't know if it was actually an SCP thing. sounds like “There Is No Antimemetics Division”
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I got The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez for Christmas, and it's pretty cool. I think maybe some of the impact in the stories gets lost in translation and they all aren't incredible, but they are all pretty darn cool. At least in my opinion.
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I started listening to The Troop a while back but just got back to it. This is some good poo poo.
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:sounds like “There Is No Antimemetics Division” No...it's so incredibly like that that it fucks up my searches, but it's not that. Which, I guess, is the kind of information fuckery that this whole genre of story is about so I'm getting the intended effect regardless!
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If no one in here knows it, perhaps try the ID That Book thread? It might be a scifi, not horror, for all we know. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2704537&pagenumber=190#lastpost Anyways, I'm here to say Leech by Hiron Ennes is pretty loving great. Historical suspense mystery with a lot of parasite horror. There's nothing particularly supernatural, per se, but I think the parasites make up for it enough. It's like a gothic, creeping dread. If you're familiar with parasites, you might be able to see the signs before the reveal. But honestly that's not a bad thing, and I love the careful construction of how it progresses from bland confusion to straight into hell. Very much full of dread and misery, but not over the top traumaporn. The world setting is almost like John Langan but scifi and historical. It's almost an apocalypse alternate history, but set in the future where humanity(?) has been strongly reset so hard that they're reverted back to the industrial age. There's also bizarre mythology, the Creation story for example, which I thought was weird and interesting. The one thing I hated was that, despite this being set in former France [I assume?] they heavily featured w*nd*gos. Those are from the Plains Nations of north American. You shouldn't use that word uncensored and you shouldn't be using it as a plot point if you're not even indigenous. Besides, having a French or general European monster makes more sense. They're in a distant, forest adjacent area, have them be trickster fox monsters or werewolves. And they DID have loup garou monsters, so it makes no drat sense not to use them for w*nd*go purposes. Hell, they already made an entire fictional Creation story? Just make up something else. But then again, the author is a white american person, so I kinda expect casual racism. [Also their About The Author say they're Queer so congrats to them! and fyi for anyone who wants to prioritize well written books from LGBT authors.] Oh now that I typed this all out, there is some paranormal occurrences. But it's not the main plot point, it's not a haunted house or cursed forest. So technically horror which means I can post ithere. One other thing. Fair warning re csa / rape / incest / child abuse. Major albeit ambiguous spoilers. Hey there's at least 1 graphic on screen rape scene, and following implied rapes which are not described in detail. Eventually in the following chapters there's backstory to the rape which involves the POV of the rape victim explaining how it started from when they were a child via grooming. It's also cis male on cis male. It might also be incest if the rapist had thought he was the offspring of his previous rape victim, a woman and the mother of the boy child? It's not made particularly clear. It's not possible that they are father/son, however. There is also a fair amount of on screen child abuse involving medical abuse. It's not possible to avoid these scenes, imo, and there are present throughout the book. If this is a deal breaker, do skip reading this. I don't think the inclusion of the above was pointless. There are themes of class division and oppression. It's not a Hunger Games esque theme, nobody is going to change the world by leading a revolt. It's more like finding one's place in the world and perhaps one is not comfortable with it?? Question marks?? The summary. quote:A surreal and horrifying debut, Hiron Ennes’s Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy.
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Just finishing up Teatro Grottesco. This stuff is extremely my poo poo
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Hi friends. One of the thread faves, Laird Barron, is very ill with a life-threatening condition. He's hospitalized after being sick since September, and John Langan among others are raising funds for his healthcare costs (he doesn't have health insurance). here is the GoFundMe if anyone feels inclined to kick it some cash.
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quote:EDIT: A word about the goal amount: We are guessing, but $100,000 is probably on the low side. This could potentially run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. I didn’t need another reminder about how putrescent the United States is but I’ll take it anyway
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PsychedelicWarlord posted:Hi friends. One of the thread faves, Laird Barron, is very ill with a life-threatening condition. He's hospitalized after being sick since September, and John Langan among others are raising funds for his healthcare costs (he doesn't have health insurance). gently caress that's awful news
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Turns out the real Old Leech was capitalism all along.
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Taking another swing at Necroscope 5. I also discovered Lumley sells Necroscope shirts through his wife over FB messenger. 
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Alison Rumfitt's Tell Me I'm Worthless is finally out in the US! Gonna snag a copy this week.
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Why is the book she's holding censored.... Maam, you could not find a self portrait not displaying your first edition of dick fight island, lmao?
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PsychedelicWarlord posted:Alison Rumfitt's Tell Me I'm Worthless is finally out in the US! Gonna snag a copy this week. It's really good! I got the UK version back when, and find it really funny that the eyes are blocked out on the UK cover, and everything BUT the eyes is blocked on the US one.
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PsychedelicWarlord posted:Alison Rumfitt's Tell Me I'm Worthless is finally out in the US! Gonna snag a copy this week. One of the rare flashback structure books about a horrible thing that happened in the characters past where the horrible thing is so much worse than what is implied by all the hints that the book drops along the way to the reveal Also, this interview is an interesting compliment to a lot of the themes and character beats High Warlord Zog fucked around with this message at 12:21 on Jan 18, 2023 |
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Finished a Lush and Seething Hell by John Hornor Jacobs. Preferred the first story, but both ended weakly imo. Typical for horror really - promising setup, payoff that doesn't deliver. It was well written and the ideas were good, especially in the first story which added a cosmic horror element to a story about a troubled fictional South American military dictatorship. The second story did some interesting things with recordings of folk music, but the frame narrative with the modern protagonist was a lot weaker than the journal entries and transcriptions.
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I finally gave up on finding a  copy of The Girl Next Door and bought it. I'm really used to Ketchum's books and Jesus Christ. This being from the point of view of bystanders is just crushing. Just another book I can never recommend to anyone or talk about ever again.
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UwUnabomber posted:I finally gave up on finding a That one in particular is rough since it's based on a horrible true story
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High Warlord Zog posted:One of the rare flashback structure books about a horrible thing that happened in the characters past where the horrible thing is so much worse than what is implied by all the hints that the book drops along the way to the reveal Can't wait to read the interview. I'm about 15% in and loving the book so far.
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PsychedelicWarlord posted:Hi friends. One of the thread faves, Laird Barron, is very ill with a life-threatening condition. He's hospitalized after being sick since September, and John Langan among others are raising funds for his healthcare costs (he doesn't have health insurance). The one about the robot dog was also cool.
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mellonbread posted:I really enjoyed Swift To Chase. Lard Baron's other collections were great but I found them a tiny bit repetitive (big dicked, hard drinking protagonist goes into the forest and finds A Satan). Swift to Chase solves the "problem" by leaning hard into it, using the same cast of characters but changing the perspective or the timeline with each iteration. You missed a bunch of his stories if that's your takeaway Don't get me wrong, that protag is there, but there's so much more than that
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The only Laird Barron books I've read are The Imago Sequence and X's for Eyes. What of his should I read next?
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sephiRoth IRA posted:You missed a bunch of his stories if that's your takeaway Though you may be onto something, because Strapado, the one I liked best as a pure horror story, did not have any hard boiled elements, or any supernatural element at all. The other thing I liked about Swift to Chase was the absence of a cliche that I found a little immersion breaking in the earlier collections, where a character interrupts the tale to soliloquize about how he once read an ancient tome that described the exact situation they're in (I'm looking at you, Men From Porlock). gey muckle mowser posted:The only Laird Barron books I've read are The Imago Sequence and X's for Eyes. What of his should I read next? I haven't read any of his longer form stuff, but I've heard people speak highly of The Croning as well.
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