/lit/ - Literature

How could there be? The genre is supposed to be bad.

no, it's a lowbrow genre for women.

>>16090965
>for women.
>Literally tailor made for young and bloodthirsty males
Women tend to go for the romantic Dracula storyline, but most horror, at least in the movies, is about a killer chasing women or something

>>16091011
I know more women than men that are into horror and serial killers.

>>16091011
women love horror because of how intensely emotional and frail the characters are. not that you would know of course.

>>16091019
>>16091032
Okay, I guess.
I did see a thread about women liking true crime.
Yeah, not into that crap or bdsm for that matter

>>16091054
>or bdsm for that matter
>tfw Butterfly will never let you tie her down and make sweet love to her :(

>>16090829
Anyway, OP, Dracula is awesome. Check it out.

>>16090829
These books mainly lead into horror comedy but they're still fun to read

John Dies at the End 1-3
Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland
Cuddly Holocaust
Beetle Brain
Clusterfuck

Those are all I've got, have fun OP

>>16090829

>>16093201
any of these good?

There's good gothic novels, of course, but horror doesn't usually work very well dragged out that long. Short stories and novellas are where the best of the genre are located.

>>16090829
I've read some pretty entertaining horror novels before so I would say yeah.
If you're asking if there are any scary horror novels then the answer is no. Literature doesn't lend itself well to being scary.

>>16093201
I really enjoyed the southern reach trilogy...Anhilation, Authority, Acceptamce. It was satisfying to see the characters unfold in it..from flat archetypes to relatable human beings. I feel like it took the concept of Lovecrafts Colour of Space and expanded it into imo the best cosmic horror written since Lovecraft.

>>16094488
also ,don't watch the movie till after the books

>>16090829
some people might not consider it "good", but it scared the shit out of me when i read it as a kid

>>16093201
What makes "horror" horror? I didn't find American Psycho scary by any means, but it is definitely gruesome and unsettling, like watching some of those rekt webms on /gif/.

>>16090829
October Country by the Fahrenheit Guy

Just marathoned "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" and it fucked me up

>>16094511
based

>>16095668
tell me about it anon, film is incoming and I'm considering reading it. is it too normie? what about prose?

>>16095694
its really spooky and hallucinatory until the ending, which is a real fucking gutpunch if you're a >tfw no gf

I'm too much of a psued to compare the prose to anything, it made me think of David Lynch more than anything (I'm more /tv/, it was the trailer dropping for Charlie Kaufman's adaptation that got me to read it, and it makes a lot of sense why he'd be interested in it when you get to the end)

Loved it, but it really got under my skin

>>16095721
If it got Kaufman interested, we can then definitely expect mindfuck and gutpunch. I will check it then. Thank you.

>>16091032
People in general are attracted to genres that normalize and validate their usual state of mind. For example, people driven by physical fear, disgust, and violence (most normies) enjoy horror movies. Inquisitive, detail-oriented people like mysteries. Intellectuals like intellectual movies. Etc.

>>16090829
Dan Simmons' horror novels can be decent. Slim pickings within the genre in general, though.

>>16094270
yeah

>>16090829
they're only as good as your suspension of disbelief (or just belief in them).

the true crime stuff is pretty horrific as it's an embellishment of actual events and this merges the real with the fantasy into plausible art.

>>16090829
Maska

>>16090829
Algernon Blackwood - Ancient Sorceries

>>16090829
Everything written before WWII.

>>16096698
the Willows by Blackwood

Any horror book where a character gets comped thousands of dollars of sushi?

Finished this recently and enjoyed it.

>>16095016
>scary
>gruesome and unsettling
I'd consider either one horror. A lot more books will be traditionally "scary" when you're a kid. But as an adult, gruesome and unsettling is about as good as you can do usually. I mean, it's a book, it's not like something can jump out and surprise you.