/lit/ - Literature

Ligotti is wonderful, especially Teatro Grottesco, which I find very funny and almost ecstatically weird - but in general I find him to be the only real living "weird tales" author with any substance - pretty much all of the mainstream "weird horror writers" (fanboys) are actual losers, basedboys, etc. Pronouns in bio, Black Lives Matter, all proceeds go to Planned Parenthood (which I firmly believe most of the foundational Weird Horror authors - Poe, HP - would have found too grim and unbelievable had someone told them about a nationwide syndicate of abortion clinics funded by the government, but I digress)... Ligotti is also a loser, but he also fried his mind out with drugs- which not enough writers do at all anymore, at least in this world.

"Conspiracy Against the Human Race" should have never been released; almost everyone I know who reads finds the premise contrived if not distasteful and barely anyone I know who reads really reads short fiction.

Severini, The Bungalow House, Gas Station Carnivals. Absolutely perfect.

The best contemporary weird tales and cinema/art aren't being published or shared publicly, btw - there are fairly large but very private mailing lists and a forum which took me about two years to get an invite and interview for. Literally a "you don't find us, we find you" type deal. There is a member with collection of about a thousand HP Lovecraft letters that no-one has seen besides this user, who posts and transcribes roughly a letter a week.

>There are but four ways to die a sardonic spirit might have said to me
>There is dying that occurs relatively suddenly
>There is dying that occurs relatively gradually
>There is dying that occurs relatively painlessly
>There is the death that is full of pain
>Thus by various means they are combined
>The sudden and the gradual
>The painless and the painful
>To yield but four ways to die
>And there are no others
>Even after the voice stopped speaking
>I listened for it to speak again
>After hours and days and years had passed
>I listened for some further words
>Yet all I heard were the faintest echoes reminding me
>There are no others
>There are no others
>Was it then that I began to conceive for this world
>A special plan?

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Not traditional fantasy of course, of he doesn't write novels, but there you go.

He has been surpassed.

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