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I'm reading a collection of stories called The Devil and the Deep and so far it's utter poo poo. Any good water monster horror out there? FWIW, I've read North American Lake Monsters and Blackwater and both are great but come a bit short on the monster front.
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That looks pretty great, thanks. e: Reviews seem pretty negative, though. I'll check it out. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 20:04 on May 15, 2018 |
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May 15, 2018 20:02
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MockingQuantum posted:Boo, I requested The Devil and the Deep at my library and I'm next in line after it being weirdly popular, that's such a bummer to hear.
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May 15, 2018 20:06
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Ornamented Death posted:Dead Sea by Tim Curran is full of underwater monsters. It is not as well-written as the two books you named, but like most of Curran's work, it's a lot of fun.
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May 16, 2018 16:33
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McCammon's best thing is probably Speaks the Nightbird; again, not strictly horror but there are some unsettling bits. I'd suggest staying away from the sequels though, he turned it into a historical adventure novel series.
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May 25, 2018 21:27
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Len posted:That's my problem with it. I've taken to reading on a Paperwhite because it's small and self lit so I can read at night without a lamp and keeping the girlfriend awake. Apparently they never did anything to make it ebook friendly.
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a foolish pianist posted:I just finished Curran's Dead Sea. It started pretty strong, but it overstays its welcome by quite a few pages, and the last act is pretty dumb.
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Aug 8, 2018 18:39
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Solitair posted:I'm a big fan of Emrys's "The Litany of Earth," but I haven't gotten around to her other fiction or nonfiction articles yet.
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Somewhat related to the haunted **** recs - I'm in the mood for something along these lines, ideally with people exploring a mysterious environemnt running into weird supernatural stuff and uncovering its history. Good example would be the Southern Reach books by Jeff Vandermeer. I've sadly read most of the classics mentioned here (Shining, Terror, House of Leaves, Deep...; more interested in the mystery than the horror but horror books tend to have the most interesting mysteries anyway. Would prefer it to be at least partially explained.
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Oct 6, 2018 20:10
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I have but that's another perfect example of what I'm looking for.
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Oct 7, 2018 10:50
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MockingQuantum posted:Speaking as someone who felt the same way as you, I feel obliged to warn you that despite the attempts of whoever handled marketing on it, Black Helicopters is almost certainly not the "more" that you want here.
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Oct 24, 2018 13:52
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The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle?
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Oct 24, 2018 18:35
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Horror does seem to suffer from unavailability quite a bit... (...still waiting for Worlds of Hurt to come back to ebooks, goddamnit).
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Oct 25, 2018 18:10
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Well, there are two things to bear in mind here: 1) HPL was not a good writer, 2) Mountains of Madness is pretty much the worst place to start with him as it provides a "scientific" background for the mythos.
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Jan 5, 2019 12:53
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Just how many New Neighbors do you have there?
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Jan 16, 2019 12:44
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Bilirubin posted:I raise you all of them
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Jan 17, 2019 22:44
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Pththya-lyi posted:The Heikegani, or "Samurai crab:"
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Bilirubin posted:Dear god what have I gotten myself into? Two stories in and the theme seems to be "how a minor brush with unreality can completely drive people completely mad". Really entertaining so far!
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Apr 24, 2019 22:44
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Zwabu posted:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769902.Sandkings
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May 5, 2019 16:48
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a foolish pianist posted:This Humble Bundle (which has about 14 days left as of June 5) has a lot of horror stuff in it: Anyway, I just finished Kwaidan and I found out about it in this thread - are there any more books in this vein (not necessarily Japanese, it could be from anywhere; just folk horror stories) anyone could recommend?
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Jun 5, 2019 20:35
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Bonaventure posted:the title has been variously translated so i will link the wikipedia page about it, but you may enjoy this (though it is a bit light on the horror elements, really)
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Jun 6, 2019 18:11
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MockingQuantum posted:Though everyone should read the forum's resident favorite North American river monster book, Blackwater. It's such a good
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Aug 20, 2019 17:00
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Owlkill posted:Does anyone have recommendations for sea/underwater-themed horror? Don't mind whether it's short stories or longer-form stuff - just tried scuba diving for the first time and it have me a horrors-from-the-depths itch Tim Curran's Dead Sea isn't anything special but it's got the all the right ingredients.
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Sep 23, 2019 20:54
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Esme posted:Starfish by Peter Watts. I think only the beginning is set in the deep sea, but it’s the most memorable part of the book.
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Oxxidation posted:iirc they're based on a now-debunked anthropological theory regarding an extinct offshoot of homo sapiens that predated on the rest of them
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No. edit: Wait, is that the first one? Then yes, I guess, if you don't mind it's just body horror.
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Oct 12, 2019 12:04
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Could be, I was like 14 when I read it.
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Oct 24, 2019 16:14
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I... huh. I need to re-read those. Anything similar in theme but a tad more coherent out there?
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Nov 25, 2019 10:49
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The Haunting of the Hill House? It's a classic for a reason.
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MockingQuantum posted:Ship of Fools/Unto Leviathan is another sci-fi horror favorite... that I'm iffy on. It has some really great moments and I love the setting and atmosphere, but the ending is weird. I'm not sure I'd call it terrible, I think others would, but it absolutely squanders a lot of the mystery and horror that was built up to that point.
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Tangentially related to the Klein talk - where would you folks recommend starting with Ramsey Campbell?
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Now I know I need to read that story.
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nate fisher posted:I would say go read The Ruins by Scott Smith instead. Not sure if that makes for good horror, though. e: You could say I was, er, rooting for the plants. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 12:07 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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Owl Goingback? I don't think I've ever heard of them, are they any good? e: beaten. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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escape artist posted:I don't understand much of the past few pages, but they somehow made me really excited to experience Ligotti. I ordered Teotro Grottesco
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COOL CORN posted:Oh poo poo I was just thinking about that book the other day! Ah well, I'll read that one next month.
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Thomas Ligotti? We're basically Ligotti salesmen here. The other standard recommendation is North American Lake Monsters.
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Bilirubin posted:I would suggest Laird Barron's Imago Sequence because I want to see your posts about the Black Sloth Anyhow, is there any other must read McDowell other than Blackwater and The Elementals? I tried The Amulet and honestly wasn't too impressed, felt a bit too like Stephen King. Then again, it was his first novel, so any other recommendations?
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MockingQuantum posted:it needs a single-frame flash of the terrible cover the new edition got: anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Mar 4, 2020 |
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