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For some good depressioncore horror Cantos for the Crestfallen is a dope 31 page poem that I feel like Ligotti might have written under a pseudonym.
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Feb 20, 2019 02:02
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Started the new Brian Hodge collection. The first story is a forest creature manufacturing meth as retribution for man strip-mining the land. I'm a Hodgehog so I love it but YRMV.
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Mar 2, 2019 16:53
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Skyscraper posted:I thought "Our Temporary Supervisor" did a way better job of it Respectfully disagree: quote:CLASSIFIED AD I [...] quote:
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Mar 18, 2019 15:11
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Skyscraper posted:It's accurate to tech giants today, right up to: I feel like the transition from that first ad to this is pretty perfect too, tho: quote:CLASSIFIED AD II I think I just personally find TNN funnier and so I like it more. They're both great stories tho.
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Mar 18, 2019 22:47
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Kwaidan the movie loving rules and I still need to read the book. But definitely watch it asap.
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Apr 19, 2019 23:21
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I'm almost done with Lake Monsters and the closest similarities I can think of are Laird Barron and David Vann. Also, yeah put me in the Lake Monsters is really good camp.
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May 5, 2019 15:34
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nankeen posted:lake monsters verdict: holy poo poo Bilirubin posted:right? yeah, that collection ruled.
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May 17, 2019 20:57
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Wounds was loving great, and "The Atlas of Hell" ruuuuuled. If you liked North American Lake Monsters then definitely check it out.
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Jun 30, 2019 02:55
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Velvet Elvis posted:I read Wounds first and loved everything about it. Now I’m worried that I’ll be disappointed by Lake Monsters. I read Lake Monsters and really loved it, but now after Wounds I'm not sure which I like more. Wounds is definitely more straight forward horror, kinda Barker-like. The pathos is turned down a little bit from Lake Monsters but is definitely still a constant throughout the stories, just at a lower frequency.
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Jul 1, 2019 01:51
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Tertius Oculum posted:Going through Growing Things now, but first couple stories have been alright. A bit weak in the spookyness for me. Still going through it, but nothings really unsettled me yet. yeah, i'm midway thru Growing Things and don't really have the motivation to keep going. it isn't bad, but after North American Lake Monsters and Wounds it just isn't good enough.
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Jul 20, 2019 21:08
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chernobyl kinsman posted:you guys really need to read crampton, the teleplay that ligotti wrote, unsolicited, for the x-files i cant find it anywhere for less than like $200
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Aug 21, 2019 02:43
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Lester Shy posted:While I loved Songs of a Dead Dreamer, I think Grimscribe is a mixed bag. There are individual stories I liked more than anything in SOADD (The Glamour, The Cocoons) but as a whole the collection is more plodding and same-y than the first book, and it became hard to remember where one story ended and the next began. I do want to read more of his stuff, but I need a little break (plus I want to read everything in chronological order, and most of his books are infuriatingly out of print and/or unavailable in ebook form.) I read My Work Is Not Yet Done right after SOADD and Grimscribe and it might be my favorite thing done by him. Also, Scrib'd has PDFs of pretty much everything Ligotti's done, including the X-Files episode screenplay. Lil Mama Im Sorry fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Oct 23, 2019 |
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Oct 23, 2019 00:56
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he’s truly a gift
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Feb 9, 2020 19:54
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Ok, putting together a list You’re the Aquarium guy so I’m pretty sure you’ll really dig North American Lake Monsters
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Mar 1, 2020 04:50
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Ornamented Death posted:It's not available in the US. I had to go the extra mile and register a reddit account so I could DM a guy that has the PDF, this poo poo better be worth it. im tainted now.
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May 16, 2020 23:26
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Window alone was worth tracking down the entire short story collection. Thanks for the rec.
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May 17, 2020 19:33
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Just finished The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature and it was pretty perfect imo if you’re the kind of depressed person that can only find comfort in getting more depressed. It’s a nice little mix of your NALM / Wounds grief & trauma horror with Thomas Ligotti’s cosmic pessimism (but slightly more mournful in contrast to Ligotti’s coldness). I think it really excelled at dodging some of the more whiney philosophy 101 pitfalls that’s inescapable in a lot of horror lit/weird fiction that’s become popular post-True Detective season one.
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Dec 24, 2020 03:05
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Enough time has passed that I’m rereading Worlds of Hurt and I’m getting just as much out of it now as I did before. Really fantastic writing.
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Jan 3, 2021 21:58
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Ham Cheeks posted:I recently finished Negative Space and loved it. Lots to chew on and think about. i kinda see it as a sort of negation of negation, an emptiness that consumes and leaves behind only more emptiness, a double negative etc Lil Mama Im Sorry fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Jan 10, 2022 |
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Jan 10, 2022 22:51
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anyone know which Ray Bradbury story from The Illustrated Man Deleuze and Guatarri are referencing here?quote:Strictly speaking, it is not true that a baby experiences his mother's breast as a separate part of her body. It exists, rather, as a part of a desiring-machine connected to the baby's mouth, and is experienced as an object providing a nonpersonal flow of milk, be it copious or scanty. A desiring-machine and a partial object do not represent anything, A partial object is not representative, even though it admittedly serves as a basis of relations and as a means of assigning agents a place and a function; but these agents are not persons, any more than these relations are intersubjective. They are relations of production as such, and agents of production and antiproduction. Ray Bradbury demonstrates this very well when he describes the nursery as a place where desiring-production and group fantasy occur, as a place where the only connection is that between partial objects and agents.
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Jan 17, 2022 04:28
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Opopanax posted:Almost certainly The Veldt excellent, this is definitely it. thank you.
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Jan 17, 2022 04:56
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There Is No Antimemetics Division was really fun for like the first 40% of it, but from there to where I’m at now (about 60%) has been a pretty big drop off in quality.
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Jan 24, 2022 15:55
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Blastedhellscape posted:I'm about a quarter of the way through Negative Space by B.R. Yeager, and what a wild, bleak ride, psychedelic ride. drat! im on the last few pages of AMYGDALATROPOLIS and as soon as your feeling better after NEGATIVE SPACE its a great way to get you feeling like poo poo again
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Feb 6, 2022 03:38
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anyone have any despair horror gems i may have overlooked? or maybe arent that well known? (i’ve read Ligotti’s collected works several times over to save you some time recommending anything by him) recently read In That Endlessness, Our End by Gemma Files and honestly had some of the best short stories ive read in a long time, though there were a few that did nothing for me. i plan on hitting Experimental Film once i finish Between Two Fires, which was an excellent rec btw thread. also you guys make me want to reread The Butcher’s Table everytime i get caught up on this thread.
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Aug 2, 2022 01:24
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Traxis posted:Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana never heard of this and people keep describing it as hellish in the reviews, so def grabbing it, thank you Big Mad Drongo posted:Have you read any Brian Evenson? Song for the Unraveling of the World is probably his best collection, but it's all solid. I started it long ago and got distracted, I’ll def return to it, thx Oxxidation posted:Christopher Slatsky’s short story collections, especially the title story from The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature Already read this but I dont remember it much so I’ll definitely reread it, i remember liking it
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Aug 4, 2022 01:50
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Just re-read Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees and I wish someone would adapt a film version already, it’s so good.
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Aug 29, 2022 16:15
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Finished We Are Here To Hurt Each Other last night. If you’re into Clive Barker or Gemma Files you’d probably enjoy it.
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Oct 17, 2022 20:50
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Idle Amalgam posted:Suggestions for other collections like Wounds? It's something I constantly recommend and love. I ran through Matthew Bartlett’s collections lately and loved them. Its more genre horror than Wounds but there’s an underlying pathos in his writing that hits kinda the same vein. Also, Nicole Cushing is a little extreme i guess but ive read a few of her novellas now and they’re pretty great. Lil Mama Im Sorry fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Dec 2, 2022 |
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Dec 2, 2022 02:31
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Bilirubin posted:And I'm also a Gemma Files stan I just snagged Spectral Evidence after reading In That Endlessness, Our End, which is a great collection that sorta falls off towards the end but has some bangers in the front half.
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Dec 2, 2022 20:18
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The collection that stuck with me the most this year was probably The Puppet King and other Atonements by Justin Burnett — the standout story for me being “devourer” which sorta twists the whole “academic researcher goes too far in the search of forbidden knowledge” into a music journalism horror piece.
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Dec 14, 2022 03:00
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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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Jan 4, 2023 22:36
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Re-read Strappado only to remember how much I love The Broadsword.
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Feb 1, 2023 19:36
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Frolic is one of my favorite Ligotti stories and I’ve read all of his collections multiple times. I don’t understand the hate for it.
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Apr 25, 2023 18:52
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New BR Yeager collection just dropped — Burn You the gently caress Alive
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Stopping by to say Bonding by Maggie Siebert was a blast Currently reading Monarch by Candice Wuehle (also excellent halfway through) Lil Mama Im Sorry fucked around with this message at 22:37 on May 9, 2023 |
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