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FPyat posted:Is there anything that particularly effectively plays off of fears of loneliness and isolation? Being lost and uncertain of one's surroundings, like in an abandoned hospital or shopping mall after hours? Literally every Canadian horror author. Try Simon Strantzas or Richard Gavin.
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FPyat posted:Is there anything that particularly effectively plays off of fears of loneliness and isolation? Being lost and uncertain of one's surroundings, like in an abandoned hospital or shopping mall after hours? The Luminous Dead? It's a cave, but yeah, it's all about being lost and alone.
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a foolish pianist posted:The Luminous Dead? It's a cave, but yeah, it's all about being lost and alone. It's worth noting, however, that The Luminous Dead is more a tense drama about a deeply dysfunctional relationship than a horror story.
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Kestral posted:It's worth noting, however, that The Luminous Dead is more a tense drama about a deeply dysfunctional relationship than a horror story.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Just putting up a reminder link for the Book Barn discord:
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so maybe forum not dead and under new ownership instead? but if it goes i will miss the horror thread most of all. so many good recommendations. so little gatekeeping. just a full-on embrace of all the gold - and trash - that spookadoodles have to offer my mother in law watched Hereditary yesterday afternoon with my partner. when it was finished she said "I'll do that to you when I'm gone!" pretty dark mum
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I assume most of you all know this but just in case, Tremblay has a new book coming out on 7/7 about get this... a plague.
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escape artist posted:I assume most of you all know this but just in case, Tremblay has a new book coming out on 7/7 about get this... a plague. oh god it's starting I knew we'd get a wave of plague horror after corona hit, I expect a lot of it to be tedious but who knows, maybe some will actually tap into some collective subconscious ideas about existing in a post-plague world that'll be interesting tbf to Tremblay, he could have started the book before corona really took off. I'm uncertain I'll read the book, but more because I thought Cabin at the End of the World and Growing Things were both kind of a letdown, rather than anything to do with it being about a plague.
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MockingQuantum posted:tbf to Tremblay, he could have started the book before corona really took off. He finished the book before COVID-19 hit the US. ARCs were issued just before things started getting bad back in March. All of his author-friends have been making jokes about it since then.
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Ornamented Death posted:He finished the book before COVID-19 hit the US. ARCs were issued just before things started getting bad back in March. All of his author-friends have been making jokes about it since then. I can't tell if that's the best or the worst luck, but given how 2020 has been I'm gonna guess both.
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Lawrence Wright beat him by almost 3 months with his book End of October. Wright is a great non-fiction writer (Going Clear and The Looming Tower are his most famous works), but a pretty average fiction writer. The best parts of End Of October are when he recounts the histories of viruses, but the fiction part of the book was a struggle for me. What is truly amazing about End of October is how he was spot on with Trump’s (president is nameless in the book but you know) response (lack of) and stupidity since this book was finished last year.
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Matt Hayward set his career on fire, pissed on the ashes, and likely destroyed his wife's company for good measure.
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Ornamented Death posted:Matt Hayward set his career on fire, pissed on the ashes, and likely destroyed his wife's company for good measure. Who's he? I tried googling and got pretty much nothing.
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Some horror writer that just put a book out recently. Was DMing women (reviewers, other writers) and telling them how horny he is. Then he made some fake screenshots and sent them to her friends and some publisher claiming she was the harasser, but they were laughable and everyone told him to gently caress off. Now he's nuked all his social media. I gotta say though I'm not sure why people are pulling books from his wife's company. I guess they feel that he might be involved with the operation? Still it's not her fault her huusband's a creep.
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ravenkult posted:I gotta say though I'm not sure why people are pulling books from his wife's company. I guess they feel that he might be involved with the operation? Still it's not her fault her huusband's a creep. I've asked a few people if it's anything more than guilt by association, but haven't heard either way.
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I’m here for more horror recs  I like King, specifically The Shining and earlier stuff, Hill House was good and I love The Elementals. I‘ve also been picking through Nathan Ballingrud short stories and finding them hit or miss, but some are good (what the hell is up with the one about angels?) I want to read the whole Blackwater saga but I’m giving myself a short break from McDowell before tackling it. Thinking about Let the Right One in, Ive never read it.
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The current darling of the review world is Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling. I'm about a quarter of the way through and really enjoying it.
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The Goodread reviews are up there, nice. Am I supposed to go into it not knowing if it’s supernatural or just creepy death-culty? Trying to ask that without spoiling anything.
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I don't think the blurb gives away anything, you can read that I guess? Edit: I'm seeing Keene confirm that Anna didn't really have anything to do with Matt's bullshit, so I guess everyone is pulling their books just to keep Matt as far away as possible. That really sucks, I liked the aesthetic Anna had for Poltergeist Press. Ornamented Death fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Jun 30, 2020 |
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We weren't particularly close but I used to beta read for Matt and just. This sucks. Torn between feeling weirdly guilty and glad that I apparently dodged yet another bullet. Boy it's a lot.
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At this point I'm just kind of confused. By and large the consensus seemed to be "Yeah this was a real lovely thing you've done and you need to have a timeout to work on not being a creeper," and everyone expected Matt would do the work and be a better person. No one was really calling for him to be canceled. Then he decided to blow it all up for some stupid rear end reason or another and here we are.
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Ornamented Death posted:I don't think the blurb gives away anything, you can read that I guess? All of the blurbs I’ve read make it seem scary, unsettling, this and that but I’m wondering if I should expect a creepy realistic thriller or a supernatural/ghost story going into it. I’m also trying to be careful in case answering that would be a spoiler, like if there’s a question throughout the story of “wow is this religious cult onto something” that gets answered later on. Edit: because I may be wording myself badly, I consider supernatural horror and non-supernatural horror two very different things and I don’t like finding out halfway through, unless it’s intentionally misleading from the author, that I’m expecting the wrong thing. Rolo fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Jun 30, 2020 |
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ravenkult posted:Some horror writer that just put a book out recently. Was DMing women (reviewers, other writers) and telling them how horny he is. Then he made some fake screenshots and sent them to her friends and some publisher claiming she was the harasser, but they were laughable and everyone told him to gently caress off. Now he's nuked all his social media. I heard a rumor that is was her making the doctored screenshots.
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PawParole posted:just read all of bob lemans stories, and I particular loved Window and Instructions.
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Rolo posted:All of the blurbs I’ve read make it seem scary, unsettling, this and that but I’m wondering if I should expect a creepy realistic thriller or a supernatural/ghost story going into it. Oh I gotcha. It's explicitly supernatural from the getgo.
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Ornamented Death posted:Oh I gotcha. It's explicitly supernatural from the getgo. Thanks friend! I’m sold, I’ll get started on it today.
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Ornamented Death posted:At this point I'm just kind of confused. By and large the consensus seemed to be "Yeah this was a real lovely thing you've done and you need to have a timeout to work on not being a creeper," and everyone expected Matt would do the work and be a better person. No one was really calling for him to be canceled. Then he decided to blow it all up for some stupid rear end reason or another and here we are. there is a lot of psychological pressure due to *waves generally everywhere*
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new Datlow anthology dropped, Final Cuts, and is supposed to have new shorts from Barron, Ballingrud, and Langan among others
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Can y'all help me with a recommendation? I would like to find another occult (or similar) book like Adam Nevill's Last Days. I enjoyed it but wanted more of a payoff, I guess. Lots of beating around the bush. I was thinking of reading The Hellbound Heart but idk. Has Stephen King written anything like a full-length Gramma? E: ah poo poo if I'd just read the last few posts I'd have seen Devil's Creek. That looks good Fitzy Fitz fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Jul 7, 2020 |
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Can y'all help me with a recommendation? joke recommendation: brian evenson's last days. it has TWO cults
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I’m a third into Devil’s Creek and I’m definitely liking it.
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N-N-N-NINE BREAKER posted:joke recommendation: brian evenson's last days. it has TWO cults I just finished this one and it was incredible.
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New Ballingrud story, Scream Queens, is a loveletter to 70s horror cinema while being a harrowing story on its own. When I finished it, I went back and read it a second time.
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escape artist posted:New Ballingrud story, Scream Queens, is a loveletter to 70s horror cinema while being a harrowing story on its own. When I finished it, I went back and read it a second time. Final Cuts is on my short list to buy soon. I'm currently working through Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory, but I'll probably buy it after.
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I'm halfway into Wanderers by Chuck Wendig. So far it's an entertaining ride by someone who probably time traveled to 2020 and came back to release it during the summer of 2019.
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Ornamented Death posted:The current darling of the review world is Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling. I'm about a quarter of the way through and really enjoying it. I'm a few pages from the end of this, and I don't get why it's a critical darling. It's a decent Dean-Koontz-circa-1988 pastiche to start, and then it just turns straight exploitation. There are some okay supernatural horror elements, but then it mostly trades on child rape and molestation. Only read this book if you want to hear a supernatural evil villain taunt one of his former child rape victims about how much the raping must have hurt.
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Ornamented Death posted:The current darling of the review world is Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling. I'm about a quarter of the way through and really enjoying it. Just started this this morning. Very early on but I'm digging it!
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Relax Or DIE posted:just started reading The Elementals and it's much funnier than I expected it to be Such a good book though. I really enjoyed it.
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This has to be one of the most ridiculous lines I have read in awhile, “Danzig filled the car, setting his mind at ease, the aural equivalent of a warm security blanket”. Oh that line is from Devil’s Creek. It is a fun read, but it’s not that good. 300+ pages into it and the writer has made no effort to make you care about a single character (zero development). Also he wasted an opportunity with making town and its residents into interesting characters. At times I thought he was trying for a Salem’s Lot vibe but he missed the mark. The book just pushes the plot forward at its own peril. nate fisher fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Jul 25, 2020 |
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