/lit/ - Literature

>>16675641
Caitlín R. Kiernan

>>16675647
>Caitlín R. Kiernan

umm thats a female author... proper suggestions please

>>16675656
It's actually a man.

>>16675656
Fool. That's the horror Lovecraft kept spasming about in his stories.

>>16675673

i thought you were joking so i looked up her wikipedia

what in the actual fuck, plot twist right there


In their twenties, Kiernan identified as transgender and transitioned to female,[17] further identifying as lesbian.[18] In 2020 Kiernan stated, "I no longer consider myself transgender (or transsexual). I would say that I'm gender fluid, if I had to say anything," explaining that this was not a recognized option in the 1980s.[17] They added that male or female pronouns do not offend them, but prefer "they, them, and their".[17]

Kiernan has identified as an atheist pagan.[18]

Kiernan lives in Birmingham, Alabama,[2] with photographer and doll maker Kathryn A. Pollnac

>>16675641
https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-economy-2/

>>16675641
reddit author

What about Thomas Ligotti?

>>16675673

and 2nd question, is it me too writing?
or is it written like a man and actually good?

>>16675687
>and 2nd question, is it me too writing?
Not really. Most of Kiernan's stuff predates the metoo shit. I actually knew about this author because of a Lovecraft documentary.

>>16675685

they hate him, apparantly he was super racist

>>16675686

yeah was looking at him, is he any good? my library has one of his books

>>16675679
No sane man lives with a doll maker.

>>16675729
He is great but very different from Lovecraft. No pulp influences, very nihilistic and strongly philosophical.

>>16676118
>Thomas Ligotti

ok done, put the book on reserve and ill read it sometime over the next week.

>>16675679
>literally turned into a Lovecraftian monster
based.

>>16675641
>Who writes similar stuff to this now?
I do, but I will never get published.

I just read this last night.
Very Lovecraftian and he namechecks Lovecraft, Machen, Blackwood and M. R. James in the book.
He’s not very prolific though. Been writing since the seventies and only has four or five books.

>>16675641
you could look at other members of the lovecraft circle ( his writer friends ) for more Lovecraftian stuff. Some authors also would add to the Robert Howard Hyboreian mythos but i have been told alot of the later stuff doesnt equal that of Howard's.

>>16675641
John Langan is pretty good. The fisherman is pretty well Lovecraftian with spooky fish people, cryptic dreams and a Roanoke type mystery scenario if that’s what ur looking for.

CLARK ASHTON SMITH
LIGOTTI
ROBERT BLOCH
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
LORD DUNSANY
AMBROSE BIERCE
FRANK BELKNAP LONG
ARTHUR MACHEN
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
POE

READ LOVECRAFT'S COLLABORATIONS AND GHOST WRITTEN STORIES IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY

>>16675703
>they hate him
No they don't, hell a mentally ill discord tranny I had the misfortune to associate with was a total nutcase (SJW that was former nazi fascist) loved him in spite of his past.

>>16675681
pretty cringe desu

>>16675703
>they hate him
No they don't, hell a mentally ill discord tranny who was a total nutcase (SJW that was former nazi fascist) I used to have the misfortune to associate with in the past loved the guy, in spite of his past. Said tranny was the typical middle-class well-educated, but not very smart white kid who had lots to say about politics but a superficial understanding in matters of philosophy.

>>16675641
>Did the world just give up on this genre?
The fear of the unknown becomes less powerful the more you know. But nowadays to comprehend the uncertainty of the universe you have to give it attention. We still haven't fully explored the ocean yet we don't give a shit anymore. Why? Our attention spans have shrunken since mass media advancements. You can answer nearly any question in less than a minute from nearly anywhere. It assures you. All we have is life after death and dementia as sources for unknown fear. There's still cosmic horror but nowadays only advanced mathematicians and cosmologists would experience it. And God forbid someone of our citizen calibre was to read a big book.

>>16676714
But I believe in God so I can't relate.

>>16676724
You don't get scared of the hypocrisies in religious texts? The angels you may see? The monsters that will chase?

>>16676734
>You don't get scared of the hypocrisies in religious texts?
No.
>The angels you may see?
No.
>The monsters that will chase?
Yes.

>>16675641
If you want modern weird horror, you could try someone like Clive Barker. Not really similar in prose style though.

>hey Howard, did you know that humans see colors because of receptors in our eyes, and that some animals have double the amount of receptors?
>WHAT?! SO THERE ARE COLORS THAT HUMANS CANNOT SEE? AAHHHHHHHHHHH I'M GOING INSAAAAAAAANEEE
Why do we like this retarded bigot again?

Me

>>16677557
Imma say his cat’s name

>>16676456
I assume you’ve ready his short story collection too? Dark Gods it’s called.

>>16675641

>>16677657

>>16675866
Exactly. That's why he must be a good horror writer.

Checked out the Legend of Char’Goth’Gothacon yet?

>>16677657
>>16677668
Your books have the name misspelled, I see

>>16676134
Which one btw? If you don't like soadd move on to Grimscribe. Best soadd stories are:
Dr. Voke mr. Veech
Alice's last adventure
Troubles of dr thoss
Greater festival of masks
Journal of jp drapeau

>>16675679
>doll maker
uh bros?

>>16675641
Slightly off tangent, but where do I start with Lovecraft?

>>16676541

Came here to post this

Haven't read this yet but it's been on my watchlist for quite a while. It's written by a philosopher and professor from iran, and the protagonist in this book is an archeologist also from iran.
It's essentially a mix of "lovecraftian" horror and postmodern theory (aka theory-fiction). The reviews say it's pretty dense and difficult to tackle.

>>16678812
I meant to-read list*

>>16678741
call of cthulu

>>16676541
Almost all these niggas were Lovecraft's contemporaries, so 100 years old too. Machen and Poe are even older, 200 years old!

>>16679914
Machen is not 200 years old, nigger.

>>16679896
Thanks!

>>16675641
>I want cosmic horror, cults, weird shit etc

I've found good stories in those Lovecraft pastiche short story collections, of which there are probably hundreds at this point.

Haven't kept track of the authors or the titles.* Would be a nice crowd-source project to read through a lot of those and pick the best of the best.

Also, Ramsey Campbell's youthful stories are mostly in the Lovecraft mode. I've never read them, however, although I have been meaning to get around to them as I suspect they might be rather good.

*Here's one I can remember that I liked; it's not a masterpiece, but it conjured a nice mood, and had some powerfully suggestive imagery: Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud, “The Crevasse”. From the collection Lovecraft Unbound.

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>>16675641
Thomas Ligotti
Richard Gavin
T.E.D. Klein when he actually writes something.
Quentin Crisp
WH Pugmire

>>16675641
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>>16679914
Who cares lol. Isn't it fitting that weird fiction is an obscure and dying genre? This makes it even more intriguing. Those writers I listed, they're great, just read them and start writing your own stuff as well.

And if you really must read contemporary:
- Ligotti
- China Melville
- Pugmire
- Laird Barron
- Ramsey Campbell

Anyway, have fun :)

>>16675685
how the fuck do you call lovecraft reddit, have you not read his letters?

There’s always Willum Hopfrog Pugmire. Pretty good Lovecraftian writer. Kinda looks like Boy George, but when your name is Willum Hopfrog Pugmire you can dress however the fuck you want.

>>16675641
Obviously R Scott Bakker, his Second Apocalypse series. He basically did HP but better

>>16675641

Caitlin R. Kiernan, Laird Barron, Stephen Graham Jones, TED Klein, Clive Barker, Gemma Files, Fritz Leiber, Clark Ashton Smith, Seabury Quinn, Wilum Pugmire, Paul Tremblay, Philip Fracassi, John Langan, Michael Cisco, Ramsey Campbell.

Thomas Ligotti is a meme. Dude can't write for shit. Somehow he wrote Conspiracy which is a great pseudo-treatise novel but otherwise he's painfully dry.

>>16682664
>t.pulp genreshit eater