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ravenkult posted:I mentioned before making a list of good horror stort stories you can read online. Since Halloween is coming up I decided to pick a story each day in October. Let me know if it becomes obnoxious. What a cool idea and thanks for the unsettling story
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I had the same initial feeling, but that was a good and unsettling read before bed
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ClydeFrog posted:Thank you fellow forum posters for keeping me spooked throughout 2022
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Tiny Timbs posted:Knocked out The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. I think I really liked this book. There was a point at which I didn't, and I honestly felt legitimately mad at the author, and it was because they managed to rug pull me right when I thought I was settling into a cozy horror mystery groove. The rest of it was paced really well and gave me a lot of interesting themes and cultural discussion to think about. I hated My Heart Is a Chainsaw, but I'll give this a go since it's gotten such high praise this page... Also put a library hold on The Exorcist audiobook which should be available soon.
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value-brand cereal posted:Stay in the Light by A. M. Shine [white irish man] Oh neat, I read the first one last year and enjoyed it, but I didn't know a sequel had come out.
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Started a Brian Evenson story collection and it's deeply unsettling
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Oct 19, 2024 17:53
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It's definitely not out of nowhere. I pre-ordered it and the new 10th anniversary editions of the other three back in March as a gift for a friend who is a big fan (I still haven't read them...) The new editions are really beautiful
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Oct 27, 2024 15:36
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Kestral posted:Which collection? Evenson's one I've been considering looking at for a while now, after running across one of his stories in a collection a while back and being suitably impressed. My only hesitation, other than my distaste for his stance on the Mormon church, is hearing that a lot of his stuff involves mutilation and dismemberment, which nopes me out of a book reeeeaaaal fast. The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell It was really good, and I'm definitely want to read more (though I am not sure what his stance on the Mormon church is). There's some body horror in some of the stories, but I don't know what to advise you in that regard. I normally would avoid that kind of thing, but I found the stories really compelling despite my discomfort.
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Kubricize posted:
For me, this started really interesting, then was a bit tedious in the middle and ended fine. I wasn't sorry that I read it, but I read glad to be finished with it.
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Nov 30, 2024 10:14
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The Exorcist is so good. It was graphic and creepy and horrifying at times, and then also very funny at other times. I'm a really big fan of Supernatural Columbo 
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Rolo posted:Found a cheap physical copy of Only the Good Indians and grabbed it without knowing anything about it. I have not liked anything else by this author but thought it was decent with some great moments
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I think Nat Cassidy just isn't my cup of spooky tea despite his popularity. I didn't enjoy my slog through Nestlings a few months ago. I ended up checking out Mary without realising it was the same author until today. While there were parts I was almost enjoying, it was feeling like such a slog that I decided to abandon it for now rather than continue brow-beating myself into picking it up when I really didn't want to. I feel less bad about this decision after realising it's the same author of Nestlings, which I did make myself finish. Enfys fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Feb 1, 2025 |
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tuyop posted:Also a great horror movie about caves! Posts about The Descent had me curious enough to want to watch it (without reading the spoilers), plus these two. Somehow this lead to Mr Enfys and I deciding to have a spooky Valentines weekend and watch one each night. We watched The Descent tonight and hoo boy, that was an amazing, horrifying, wild ride  I'm afraid to go to bed now though
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Going to continue taking movie recs from this thread after watching The Ritual tonight
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Opopanax posted:Fully agreed. There's lots of times I'm checking out an interesting book on the kobo website, then I see at the bottom it's part 1 of 5 or something and I completely check out Yeah I'm also finding myself increasingly put off by series in a way that I didn't used to be. I don't really want to have to commit to multiple books before I even know if I really enjoy the first one, especially when at least one of them is probably just going to be a lot of set up/moving characters around to where they need to be for the next book.
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Opopanax posted:They're all pretty different at least, but if the first one didn't grab you the rest won't I was pretty meh about the first one, but I enjoyed the second and really got into the third. I almost want to re-read the first now after I finish the prequel as I think I might appreciate it more in retrospect, but I probably won't. I can see why he started the series with that book/perspective, but it's also off-putting and underwhelming in a lot of ways compared to the rest of the story. I only kept reading them because they're short(ish) and a friend gifted me copies, so I felt bad. Otherwise I doubt I'd have finished the first (well I probably would have - I feel compelled to finish the majority of books I'm not enjoying for some silly reason, but I wouldn't have continued the series). This doesn't change what I posted about my increasing dislike of starting series as the exception proves the rule, nor should it be taken as encouragement for escape artist to continue reading them 
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value-brand cereal posted:Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror edited by Jacob Steven Mohr [anthology] I checked this book out based on this post, and maybe you can answer what the heck happened in that story because I read it twice (once with the strikeout section first then the regular text, once just reading them both together) and I'm so baffled. e: not that I expect you to fully remember a short story you read a couple months ago given how much you read, it's just bothering me lol Enfys fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Mar 23, 2025 |
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The detailed write ups were great, and I've gotten a lot of good recommendations from VBC, so I'm bummed and think it's a big loss for a cheap laugh at their expense
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I've also picked it up and plan on reading it as soon as my partner finishes it
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I hated My Heart is a Chainsaw but enjoyed The Ruins, so maybe you'll enjoy it. Curious why you didn't like it? It's been a few years since I read it, but it's one of the things that got me back into reading horror regularly. The movie is atrocious though.
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sephiRoth IRA posted:Are any of his others must-reads? I guess I read the gunslinger a long time ago but never went further than that. Duma Key Cujo was the first one I read when I was 8 or 9 and snuck it off a shelf. My parents quickly discovered what I'd done though because it absolutely terrified me to the point I was afraid to go to bed and then had horrible nightmares when I finally would fall asleep.
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My love for Under the Dome was matched only by my fury at the ending
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Opopanax posted:I've really liked all the Tremblay I've read but Horror Movie was a bit up it's own rear end and I didn't love the ending This is true for me as well. I kept trying to like Horror Movie because I enjoyed all the previous books I read, so I spent the first half feeling like I must be missing something
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I read it awhile back and don't really know how I feel about it. It had some incredible moments but otherwise it just felt weird and violent but not in a way that was very interesting to me
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szary posted:"The Shaft" by David Schow Seconding this
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Conrad_Birdie posted:I know I’ve talked about it here before, but I was apart of the NYPL Best Horror 2025 Committee this year. It was super fun; I read a ton of great books (and also a lot of bad books). Yesterday our top 20 list was finally published (technically our year went from October 2024-October 2025, for Halloween reasons). Of these I've read The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Old Soul, and She's Always Hungry. I really enjoyed Old Soul and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, and some of the stories in She's Always Hungry were pretty great and some were meh as with most short story collections. Old Soul in particular surprised me. I've been meaning to read The Country Under Heaven and have put library holds on a couple of the others 
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I read it when it was recommended when this thread visited the haunted clubhouse last year, and I absolutely loved it but it was definitely normal book length lol
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Conrad_Birdie posted:I know I’ve talked about it here before, but I was apart of the NYPL Best Horror 2025 Committee this year. It was super fun; I read a ton of great books (and also a lot of bad books). Yesterday our top 20 list was finally published (technically our year went from October 2024-October 2025, for Halloween reasons). My library had Whistle available from this list, so I picked it up and enjoyed it. It's a book with two timelines - a current timeline with an author and her young son, and one about a sheriff in a small Vermont town from 2001 investigating an escalating series of odd misfortunes, disappearances and accidents. It's a solid read, moreso for the small town "spooky shop proprietor" storyline than the seemingly cursed children's author storyline. It definitely had some old school Stephen King vibes to it, so I wasn't surprised when in the acknowledgements the author mentioned that King read over the first draft. The author is not great at writing children, so those parts fell a little flat, but I really enjoyed the pseudo-nostalgia of getting to know all the characters in a quiet little Also it made me want to go look at elaborate model train set-ups in weird basements, choo-choo! Enfys fucked around with this message at 10:49 on Oct 27, 2025 |
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Opopanax posted:Let's see if anybody here has any ideas. I have been invited to perform at a winter variety show, and what I've decided I'd like to do is read a Victorian ghost story. Problem is my slot is going to be around 5 or 6 minutes, and all the ones that I know are around 20 or 30. Does anybody know of any good but relatively short Christmas ghost tales? I don't have a great sense of the max word count you could reasonably expect in 5-6 minutes, but I'd imagine it's gotta be pretty short. This is one of the shorter but still might be too long, Jerry Bundler: https://www.online-literature.com/ww-jacobs/light-freights/11/ This is probably a bit too long: https://americanliterature.com/author/mr-james/short-story/the-story-of-a-disappearance-and-an-appearance This is probably the shortest I know, but it's not really that spooky: https://raincoaster.com/2016/12/02/christmas-ghost-stories-christmas-meeting-by-rosemary-timperley/
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Paddyo posted:
Yeah that extremely sucked and I'm not reading any more of his books because he's two for two on that for me and that was so much worse than The Troop
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