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I read about Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite in this thread over a year ago. I'm about 85% of the way through and what a beautiful novel. Just heart wrenching and darkly hilarious. I'm bi but queer lit isn't really my thing. In fact I think this is probably the first thing that fits that description I've actually gotten through. I'll probably even reread it at some point. Poppy wrote the foreword to the first Lovecraft compilation I ever read (Waking up Screaming) so really I shouldn't be surprised. He's partly to blame for all this.
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Laird Barron has revealed exactly what he went through. Apparently he was a couple days away from dying when he finally went to the hospital. https://mobile.twitter.com/LairdBarron/status/1628385997980413952
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value-brand cereal posted:Stumbles into thread hello I read something really interesting and good and it involves. Let's see. Other worlds, location horror, supernatural, time travel, rotating POV, thrillers, forest horror, 'Not Twitch dot Com' Lady Gamer Streamers, a indie video game that can be played only once?!, epistolary in that there's tasteful occasional outside viewpoints such as book excerpts blog posts a fake reddit site and such, and more. I second this recommendation, was a good read if you like found footage or woods horror! Be aware there is also a recent Warhammer Horror novel called Briardark, so the search results are a bit tangled.
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von Metternich posted:I second this recommendation, was a good read if you like found footage or woods horror! Be aware there is also a recent Warhammer Horror novel called Briardark, so the search results are a bit tangled. This person sound cool and smart. Thread, you should listen to them. Also I got another one. Y'a'l'l' like haunted houses? Compton is a Black american author if anyone is aiming to read Own Voices and similar this year. Honestly I did appreciate reading a story centered around Black characters who actually came across as Black people and not token characters for diversity points. Despite the summary, I promise it's not the standard, generic 'family stays at a haunted house' plot. The family has their own tumultuous past that collides with the Ross's past. Hell, it rather nicely mirrors in some way the history attached to the titular spite house. I liked the mystery of the house, and the auxiliary mysteries of just why this family is suddenly on the run. I think the rotating pov was decent, but was slightly irritating when it backtracked to give an account of what a different character was doing on the timeline. But that's a personal nitpick. It built tension and offered a good way of filling in information without infodumps at the last second. The Spite House by Johnny Compton quote:A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father's love, Johnny Compton's The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the making.
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Just signed up for a reading from Nathan Ballingrud of his first novel in Asheville. 2 hour drive, but to meet the author of Wounds and North American Lake Monsters well worth the drive.
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nate fisher posted:Just signed up for a reading from Nathan Ballingrud of his first novel in Asheville. 2 hour drive, but to meet the author of Wounds and North American Lake Monsters well worth the drive. I just signed up, too. Thanks for the heads up!
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nate fisher posted:Just signed up for a reading from Nathan Ballingrud of his first novel in Asheville. 2 hour drive, but to meet the author of Wounds and North American Lake Monsters well worth the drive. Hey I live close, when's he doing that?
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I've been going through the Books of Blood and just got to 3 which has Rawhead Rex in it. Now I'm familiar with the story and everything, but as I'm reading it's pretty clear to me I've read this before, I remember more details than I'd get from Wikipedia or the movie. I figure it was in another anthology but it's not in any of the ones I checked and it's surprisingly hard to google, anyone know offhand where else it ran?
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there was a quite good and faithful comic of it, you may have crossed paths with that?
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No definitely prose.
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Rolo posted:Hey I live close, when's he doing that? March 21st. It is a Tuesday and I live in Knoxville, so we are going to make a day of it. We use to go to Asheville a few times a year, but we haven’t been there since COVID (besides driving thru it to go to the beach). You do have to register before hand, since I assume limited seating. Link to register: https://www.malaprops.com/event/hybrid-book-launch-strange-nathan-ballingrud-conversation-dale-bailey nate fisher fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Mar 2, 2023 |
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nate fisher posted:March 21st. It is a Tuesday and I live in Knoxville, so we are going to make a day of it. We use to go to Asheville a few times a year, but we haven’t been there since COVID (besides driving thru it to go to the beach). Thanks for this! I'm nowhere near the area, but I love me my signed books.
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Ohhhh poo poo, I didn't realize Aliens: Bug Hunt was gonna have a story by my dude Brian Keene in it.
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UwUnabomber posted:Ohhhh poo poo, I didn't realize Aliens: Bug Hunt was gonna have a story by my dude Brian Keene in it. Just went down a bit of a rabbit hole & found out that Scott Sigler wrote Aliens: Phalanx I'm a bit burned out with the Aliens franchise but I love both authors so am definintely checking them out.
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I just found a bunch of Alien comics. Anyone got any hot tips on which series are good?
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UwUnabomber posted:I just found a bunch of Alien comics. Anyone got any hot tips on which series are good? There's a lot of Alien comics. I'll definitely recommend the current Marvel series, though. The art on the first run was dubious, but the stories are good.
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UwUnabomber posted:I just found a bunch of Alien comics. Anyone got any hot tips on which series are good?
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Dead Orbit is good, mainly due to the Stokoe art
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Rolo posted:Hey I live close, when's he doing that? I demand you all wear red carnations so you can identify each other in the audience!
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For the Eric LaRocca fans on here, he has a new release of short stories: https://www.amazon.com/Trees-Grew-B...aps%2C92&sr=8-1
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Opopanax posted:No definitely prose. It was made into a laughably terrible film at one point, but I guess you don't mean that then.
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Binged The Troop in two sittings the other day, a lot of very good descriptions (was biting my knuckles with disgust a couple of times, which is wonderful) but the back half lagged a bit. Any other Nick Cutter worth reading?
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Binged The Troop in two sittings the other day, a lot of very good descriptions (was biting my knuckles with disgust a couple of times, which is wonderful) but the back half lagged a bit. Any other Nick Cutter worth reading? YMMV, I love all his stuff but most people would say Troop is his best. I haven't read Acolyte yet but The Deep was great (I'm in a bit of a minority for thinking so though) and Little Heaven is very cool
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Binged The Troop in two sittings the other day, a lot of very good descriptions (was biting my knuckles with disgust a couple of times, which is wonderful) but the back half lagged a bit. Any other Nick Cutter worth reading? The Deep is really stupid, but also great.
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Well I bloody loved it. I like all his stuff but BTF was a step up. Hypnotic, elegiac, sumptuous with an occasional JFC WTaF
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escape artist posted:what do people iTT think of Christopher Buehlman, specifically Between Two Fires? It's an absolute thread favorite
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I am just a lurker in this thread, but I really enjoyed Between Two Fires and would love to read more medieval/fantasy horror along the lines of that or, say, Ligotti's "Masquerade of a Dead Sword: A Tragedie," if anyone has any other favorites.
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Its horror elements aren't nearly as overt as Between Two Fires (which owns) but Gene Wolfe's Devil in a Forest is a good contender imo. It's one of his shorter and more accessible novels. There's some ambiguous supernatural horror but the driving horror is just the awful lot of being a peasant in a tiny village bordering the wilderness.
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It has been like 10 years, but I remember really enjoying Buehlman’s Those Across the River a lot. I am finally reading McCammon’s Boy’s Life. So far not at all what I expected but I do like it. It feels like several short stories tied together by an overall arc. Not really horror at all. I was thinking I was going to get something like Dan Simmons’ excellent Summer of Night or the first half of It. The only other book I have read by him is Swan Song. While I just thought it was just ok, I want to read more stuff by him. I see he has a House of Usher related novel I might try next. nate fisher fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Mar 20, 2023 |
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Its horror elements aren't nearly as overt as Between Two Fires (which owns) but Gene Wolfe's Devil in a Forest is a good contender imo. It's one of his shorter and more accessible novels. There's some ambiguous supernatural horror but the driving horror is just the awful lot of being a peasant in a tiny village bordering the wilderness. Thanks! I've dug everything else by Wolfe that I've read, so that's an easy addition to the list.
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I finished reading Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce recently. It's a solid little spooky collection. It's notable how tapped into ideas that made Lovecraft famous (unknowable monstrosities, supernatural events enlightening an individual to a point of insanity, people breaking laws of nature to explore the Other Side) 40 years before Lovecraft was published, while mixing it with more irony akin to Poe. I also liked how most of the characters featured in stories were hunters, bounty hunters, ex soliders, and other "rugged" men. Bierce was an interesting guy, having survived the Civil War, being a devout atheist in the late 1800s, and wrote everything from comedies to horror to war stories. I wouldn't say any of them were great, but they were pleasant and felt folky, like a great uncle or someone telling you a spooky tale around a campfire.
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escape artist posted:what do people iTT think of Christopher Buehlman, specifically Between Two Fires? It's loving amazing and one of my favorite books and I wish there were more stuff like it
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Not really horror, more of a class satire but if you like Christian-cosmology-is-real-during-the-100-years-war, Son of the Morning by Mark Alder is very enjoyable.
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hopterque posted:It's loving amazing and one of my favorite books and I wish there were more stuff like it I laid down to read it twice this weekend and somehow lost the whole weekend. It's so good. Seventh Seal is a favorite movie of mine, so I love this setting. but that's not what I came to post... NATHAN BALLINGRUD'S DEBUT NOVEL drops today! zoux posted:Not really horror, more of a class satire but if you like Christian-cosmology-is-real-during-the-100-years-war, Son of the Morning by Mark Alder is very enjoyable. As far as I am concerned, being raised Southern Baptist was my introduction to horror literature. Christian cosmology is legitimately horrifying to me 
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Currently looking at Nathan Ballingrud in the flesh. Just got a signed copy of Wounds.
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Tell him we said hello
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I’m so happy right now  Edit: He did announce there will be a special hardback edition of Wounds coming out, under the name of Atlas of Hell later this year. Limited edition and he will announce it on his Twitter. I did ask him if any hope of The Butcher’s Table adaption, he said way too expensive. He said a few of his stories have been optioned, but we all know how that goes. nate fisher fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Mar 22, 2023 |
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nate fisher posted:I’m so happy right now Dude, congratulations.
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nate fisher posted:I’m so happy right now that's sick congrats
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