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recommend horror literature

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:31 pm
by james
I'm in the mood. Just post a bunch of shit.

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:32 pm
by FVBTVS
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Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:36 pm
by copstache
If your attention span is as short as mine Clive barkers books of blood should hit the spot.

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:41 pm
by Necrometer
http://amzn.com/0984480277 would probably crush james like a bug
Not for the weak of heart or mind, Mr. Ligotti's 'contrivance' is a dense and remarkable work of linguistic precision and poetic power, a horror story in which the uncanny monsters are us, and we've known it all along, in the backs of our minds: the self is an illusion, the body a gene-duplicating bio-robot, consciousness a tragic aberration that has imprisoned mankind to a life of suffering and reproduction. Here, the carnivorous universes of Lovecraft and Barron are shown to be not creations of fantastical speculation, but the universe in which we reside as deluded mistakes, born to suffer and die and make replicants to do the same.

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:45 pm
by Honky Kong 64
House of Leaves

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:49 pm
by james
Necrometer wrote:scary stories to tell in the tower
hahahaha I will never read this stupid book. Have you?

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:54 pm
by Friendly Goatus
Honky Kong 64 wrote:House of Leaves
this was a pretty neat mind fuck. a little gimmicky but a cool gimmick. Not to detract from the writing itself though, it was well written.

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:59 pm
by james
I got excited because I thought I had House of Leaves, but it turned out to be Shadowland by Peter Straub - which was associated in my mind with the word 'house' because he co-wrote Black House with Stephen King :drooly:

I guess I should finally read Books of Blood. To date the only Clive Barker I've gotten to is In the Flesh, which I loved dearly. I think that is considered to be a volume in that series but is titled differently or something? The Forbidden is ultra true G street shit.

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:00 pm
by riley-o
it by steven king

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:04 pm
by james
I tried to take that out of the library once but I got scared that somebody might see me with it...

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:05 pm
by Necrometer
james wrote:
Necrometer wrote:scary stories to tell in the tower
hahahaha I will never read this stupid book. Have you?
it's unlikely that I'll reach cheer levels requiring its application to restore my inner darkness, so I probably won't either :invcross:

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:27 pm
by glovefullavaseline
Anything by Sheridan Le Fanu. 'In a glass darkly' is amazing.

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 12:35 am
by Sineadrepresent
Patrick Macgrath's Blood in Water collection has some great stuff in it. "Boot's Tale" and "Hand of the Wanker" are long time favorites that come to mind. I just re-read Matheson's Hell House too, if you dig haunted houses and haven't read it then its a must.

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 1:58 am
by Cascade Whore
james wrote:I got excited because I thought I had House of Leaves, but it turned out to be Shadowland by Peter Straub - which was associated in my mind with the word 'house' because he co-wrote Black House with Stephen King :drooly:

I guess I should finally read Books of Blood. To date the only Clive Barker I've gotten to is In the Flesh, which I loved dearly. I think that is considered to be a volume in that series but is titled differently or something? The Forbidden is ultra true G street shit.
If you liked Black House read The Talisman, if you haven't already.


EDIT: "In The Flesh" is books of blood volume 5 of books of blood if I'm not mistaken.....off the top of my head some of the best stories from those collections where jacqueline ess her will and testament (probably one of the most violent and grim), confessions of a Pornographer's shroud, Son Of Celluloid, both totally fucking weird and oozing. Pig Blood Blues, There's the ubiquitous Midnight Meat Train and Rawhead Rex ....In The Hills, The City is a fantastic short story.

Have you seen the shitty/awesome Rawhead Rex movie?:
(REAL SPOILER. DON'T CLICK)
SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW
In the story the little boy pukes down Rawhead's throat before he bites his head off.

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 3:46 am
by THE KILL
Talking about Clive Barker and short attention spans, his Hellbound Heart (what was made into the first Hellriaser film) can comfortably be read in one rainy afternoon plus it's a good read.

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 7:34 am
by Honky Kong 64
riley-o wrote:it by steven king
:invcross:

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 7:36 am
by soiled depends
I think crunchermcnut and I would both give this little ditty the ol' two thumbs up....

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Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 8:49 am
by Whee of the Dead
soiled depends wrote:I think crunchermcnut and I would both give this little ditty the ol' two thumbs up....

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Put me on that list. I haven't read it in years but I remember having a damn good time...

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 9:04 am
by crunchermcnut
Indeed I would.

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 9:38 am
by Warpsmasher
Full Dark, No Stars is a return to the trve darkness for Stephen King. Makes his run of the mill seem like soft G rated kid stuff by comparison.

Dean Koontz Frankenstein series and Watchers

Brian Lumley's Necroscope series (the comics were pretty cool too)

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 10:05 am
by Honky Kong 64
Warpsmasher wrote:Dean Koontz Frankenstein series and Watchers
I remember loving Watchers so much as a kid.

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 10:08 am
by FVBTVS
i just downloaded 63 stephen king books in 6 minutes. which is the best :lol:

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 10:16 am
by storm shadow
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http://www.amazon.com/Dweller-Jeff-Stra ... nd+dweller

One of my all-time favorites, about a boy who befriends a Bigfoot-style woodland beast and the consequences of that friendship over the course of his life. It's almost like a nightmare version of Calvin & Hobbes? Really funny, but also punctuated with incredibly brutal violence at points. It's actually very poignant and affecting. It's also very concise (under 300 pages), and all killer no filler. Unlike SOME authors I could name...

Everything I've read by Strand is good but this is far and away the best (although Pressure is probably a close second).

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 10:24 am
by james
FVBTVS wrote:i just downloaded 63 stephen king books in 6 minutes. which is the best :lol:
wait for real or are you another hater like Riley

Re: recommend horror literature

Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 10:27 am
by Honky Kong 64
So he doesn't really like It?