/lit/ - Literature

Lovecraft, Poe, Kafka. Some of King's better books too. Those are all I can really think of. Always been interested in psychological/ subtle horror but in a sense I think movies are more successful at hitting the mood perfectly.

I loved ''Call of Cthulu and other stories'' what else should I buy of his that makes sure I'm not buying the same stories in a different book?

>>2686834
Not sure what was in that book but I got that one for $20 at Barnes & Noble.
It's bound so pretty and It's his complete fiction so I was surprised that it was relatively cheap.

He really doesn't have that extensive of a body of work so there's a good chance you might get some of the same short stories.

>>2686834
There's probably going to be some unavoidable overlap if you're buying hard copies.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-H-Lovecraft-Bloodcurdling/dp/1453875107/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=13
38630200&sr=8-1

I have this collection and pretty much every story is great.

Not even trying to troll. It was decently creepy.

>>2686826

To anyone that buys the horrendous Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classics books. You are most likely buying an error ridden piece of shit. Case in point:

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/sources/HPLF%20-%20Errata.PDF

As for books that are truly unsettling. Cormac McCarthy has left me unsettled quite a few times throughout his work. Most notably the Judge in Blood Meridian. The basement scene in The Road was also fucking creepy.

>>2687506

Also, I've read pretty much all of Stephen King's largest works and they were not truly unsettling. His best work I'd have to say is a short story called 1408. Give it a read.

As for Lovecraft I really do not understand the people that enjoy his work. For the time I guess it must have been interesting maybe, but it certainly has not aged well in my opinion.

Call me pleb, but I think clive barker's Books of blood are creepy.

Le Horla, by Guy de Maupassant. It's just a short story but it's pretty surreal.

>>2687514

IMO King's at his best in his Short Stories. They're really good.

The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum was pretty fucking disturbing.

Matt Cardin. Bought his Dark Awakenings collection and I read the first story, "Teeth", one morning before heading up to work. It left me so mortified, people kept asking me if I was alright or feeling sick because I had this "just kill me already" look on my face from reading that story. Rest of the book is pretty clever and very well written, but never quite reached that level of intensity again. And yet, in no way it prepared me to the centerpiece, a novella-lenght story titled "The God of Foulness." Holy shit. Now THAT's a fucking horror story.

Thomas Ligotti, too. I'm still plowing my way through his stories, but at times he can get really unnerving. Pic related.

>>2687514

I've only read The Jaunt by Stephen King which raised some interesting metaphysical questions regarding the science of teleportation.
Which collection of Stephen King's short stories would you recommend?

Most are lame, but particular SCP articles disturb me more than any other writing has. Specifically the one involving procedure 110-Montauk. I spent two days wrapping my head around that one.

Been reading lovecraft recently, loving it so.

Also OP, try 'Window' by Bob Leman(?). It's a short story that was published in a sci-fi mag about 30 years back.

>>2686832

>I think movies are more successful at hitting the mood perfectly.

I've got to disagree.

Films are actually my medium of choice, but I think books pull off horror much better. Reading is a solitary activity, often done at night, and films have authoritarian control over what you see, often it wont be nearly as terrifying as what you imagine when reading - after all, fear is very personal.

>>2687506
Fuck the Judge. He is pure evil. Everything he did was terrifying and horrifying and beyond reprehensible; I especially hated his killing the puppies and how he ended the kid.