/lit/ - Literature

>>13277138
I just started reading the stand, it's pretty good.
House of Leaves gave me nightmares about footnotes.

>>13277141
I read the Stand as well, it was a nice exploration into the American home, that part where they arrive in the football field sticks out in mind

>>13277138
Space Odyssey

Avoid stephen king like the plague for starters

Anything mentioned in Paperbacks from Hell is a good start

Graham Masterson, Guy N. Smith, Rick Hautala, Thomas Monteleone, Ronald Kelly, Clive Barker, the lovecraft circle (including his influences and those who came later), William Schoell, Robert E. Howard etc. are good starts. I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch of authors

>>13277138

>>13279783
Great choice, still need to read the sequel

Flesh Eaters by LA Morse is another solid cannibal horror book, based on the legend of Sawney Bean.

Written before Jurassic Park, very underrated, just don't watch the eh movie adaptation

>>13277138
Here

It's more like tobe hooper's eaten alive than a straight up killer gator book, but it's still a nice pulpy work

>>13278730
>Avoid stephen king like the plague for starters
Disagree, he has about 4 or 5 good but not perfect novels and some of his short story/novella collections are great.

>>13279894
>The Shining
If you've never read a King novel don't start with The Shining. I'd start with Misery then Pet Sematary then maybe 'Salem's Lot or one of the Bachman books (The Long Walk or The Running Man) then The Stand and It if you're ready to read a tome.

>>13280735
>The Stand and It if you're ready to read a tome.
My dad recommended this as one of the 4 best king books. It was also on DFW's top books so I picked it up. It's fuckin' long. I've barely made a dent in it, but its nice that each chapter has like 1 instance of character articulation and 1 event that happens. Keeps it short and bite sized.

The Holy Bible

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Don't listen to naysayers. Check out The Stand. Very good.

>>13280735
In retrospect I’m not sure why exactly I chose Th Shinning for that chart. I actually like his short stories better than his novels. I have read either of Pet Sematary Misery but I do really like Salem’s Lot and The Stand. I wouldn’t chose The Stand just because it’s not so much a pure horror novel, though definitely a great book

>>13279821
Offspring and The Woman were great and even a little better then off season.

>>13281179
>In retrospect I’m not sure why exactly I chose Th Shinning for that chart.
The Shinning and It seem to be his most popular and most read novels, it's understandable considering how popular the film and television adaptations are. I do disagree that those two books are his best novels. You could make a stronger case for It than The Shinning but I think its too bloated/long-winded whereas Misery seems just about right and doesn't wear out its welcome.

>>13278730
Razorback should be on there. It's a great creature feature but with fairly fleshed out characters.

>>13283201
Is it related to the aussie film Razorback? Because I fucking love that movie

>>13280735
I'll clarify, he's a good intro to horror I guess but he's really not as good as a lot of people say. They just like the movie adaptations, his strengths are short stories/novellas but even then he's not good enough to justify his gay boomering on twitter

>>13283201
Very underrated.

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/07/summer-of-sleaze-two-books-by-james-herbert

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/10/bloody-books-of-halloween-wurm-matthew-costello

http://www.tor.com/2015/12/02/forgotten-bestsellers-koko-by-peter-straub/

http://www.tor.com/2015/12/18/forgotten-bestsellers-the-ninth-configuration/

http://www.tor.com/2016/05/20/were-all-going-to-die-screaming-in-phoenix-dark-messiah/

http://www.tor.com/2016/08/26/the-abyss-welcome-to-hell-tennessee-coal-miners-association/

http://www.tor.com/2016/12/09/the-trouble-with-yetis-do-you-want-to-build-a-snowman/

https://www.tor.com/2017/04/14/bad-science-and-terrible-parenting-the-orpheus-process/

https://www.tor.com/2017/04/21/supernatural-urban-decay-night-train/

https://www.tor.com/2017/04/28/man-vs-militarized-nature-killer/

https://www.tor.com/2017/05/12/drug-lords-and-were-beasts-nightlife/

https://www.tor.com/2017/05/26/bringing-an-uzi-to-a-vampire-fight-nightblood/

https://www.tor.com/2017/06/16/if-stephen-king-and-oliver-stone-had-a-baby-theyd-name-it-shinglo/

https://www.tor.com/2017/07/07/fantasma-pits-the-mafia-against-werewolves/

http://www.gradyhendrix.com/carnivore-book-review

>>13281108
it has good parts but as a whole it's very inconsistent

>>13277141
You just triggered my footnote ptsd2

2-searching through other manuscripts I've found out that PTSD refers to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Johnny

>>13279894
Good list. I am glad it has Aickman, Machen, Blackwood, Ligotti, Lovecraft, Evenson, and Poe. However, I do not like Reza Negarestani's prose. It would have made more sense to add Sadegh Hedayat's Blind Owl instead.

>>13284346
Have you read Numunwari? Great crocodile horror book written by a professor who studies crocodiles, it was the inspiration for the great aussie film Dark Age

>>13280735
Pet Semetary is terrible in a way that makes it impossible to imagine how anything else he's written could be good.

>>13278730
>Paperbacks from Hell
>Guy N. Smith
This guy gets it. Smith is deffo one of my favs, have a lot of his stuff - some signed.

>>13279914
I have this cover. One of my most prized items.

>>13285514
I have two signed Thomas Monteleone books (got through amazon but still signed)

Alligators is great because the main threat are two black caimans (the most underrated crocodilian). Paperbacks from hell got me back into reading for leisure.

>>13285619
I collected horror paperbacks before I realised it was this whole niche thing. Joined Instagram and found this whole subculture, had Paperbacks From Hell for Christmas and just use it now for trawling eBay with.

I'd say at this point, i collect for the pulpy cover art. The stories are hit and miss but I'm never bored when reading

>>13285514
I have the version of death tour with the equally good skull cover

>>13285650
A lot of these pulp horror stuff (70s onward) are on the kindle ebook market but there are an equal amount that you have to find in used bookstores.

I miss the sense of over the top wtf creativity and unpredictability of these older works. There are some here and there in the present but nowhere near as much as before

>>13279869
Holy shit, I think I watched that a long time ago. It was dumb fun from what I remember, so I liked it anyway. And now I'm gonna read it.

>>13285738
the book is a hundred times better. Also read Slimer by the same author then watch Proteus (the film adaptation of Slimer)

>>13285675
>I miss the sense of over the top wtf creativity and unpredictability of these older works.
I know. It's the charm and its what I'd like to write if I am honest. The horror fiction online community is pretty big too so theres a market still.

>>13285966
Go for it, the kindle/amazon ebook market is full of these self published horror works. I'm working on some stuff here and there to (hopefully) publish that way

>>13285619
Loved Alligators, do you remember the part with the tied up kid who gets covered with slugs, though? Really fucked up.

(cue the Shaun Hutson covers)

Reminder that "Young Goodman Brown" is the scariest story ever written in the Americas.

>>13285795
Thanks, anon. Looking up the trailers, I think it was actually the third film I watched which makes me look even worse for liking it, heh. I'll look for these books soon.