Hello /lit/,
I don't know much about litterature so I'm asking this to you.
It may sound bizarre but I really feel the need to read some "dark, mad, tortured, disturbing" books (though not gorish if possible). I don't know why, I had this obssession of finding this kind of thing through all artistic works (music, cinema, games, paintings, etc.) since I'm 16. Alas, this need hasn't been fulfilled enough, though I've already read great books that are quite like this.
I can't really give you more details but here are my inspirations :
>Paintings :
-Francis Bacon's work
-Zdzisław Beksiński's work (pic related)
>Games :
-Sanitarium (just played the demo but I know I would like it !)
-Silent Hill 2
-The Path
>Music :
As a musician, The Residents or Coil could sum it all up otherwise it would take too long to enumarate it all
>Cinema
-Jaccob's Ladder
-David Lynch's work (like Eraserhead)
>Litterature :
-Les champs de Maldoror from Lautréamont (though I didn't finish it yet)
I've also read some Edgar Allan Poe
So, can you recommend me some books that fulfill those criterions ?
>>7417546
>(just played the demo but I know I would like it !)
>(though I didn't finish it yet)
Twice is too obvious, not bad otherwise.
>>7417575
What do you mean ?
>>7417546
/lit/ would say Lovecraft, but you're better off with Poe.
AproPoe, some of Borges' more macabre work might appeal to you, for example 'A Universal History of Infamy' or his treatment of mirrors as in 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius'. The dread and terror in Borges tends to be pretty subtle though.
Also some of Ray Bradbury might appeal to you.
>>7417546
Just read The Room by Hubert Selby Jr, you edgy bastard you.
>>7417546
>Alas
the fuck
Underage b&
Kafka
Maybe Beckett
Thanks for all your answer ! I have enough to read for a long time ! Feel free to continue to recommend me other things, I'll gladly wirte them down !
>>7417700
Go fuck yourself.
Look for Ligotti.
Faggot.
>french
Pic related is what you're looking for.
>>7417849
this
especially the ligotti part
>>7417546
you're new to this board, right?
start with Kafka, Alfred Kubin, stuff like that.
Ligotti.
Start with pic.
>>7417546
I can help you with some:
>Paintings
Caspar David Friedrich
>Music
Camille Saint-Saens "Danse Macabre"
Sergei Rachmaninov "The Isle of Death"
Modest Mussorgsky "Night on the Bald Mountain" (I prefer Stokowski's version to be honest)
>Cinema
Ingmar Bergman "Persona"
>Literature
Stephen King "Desperation" (yeah, I know, but it's good and creepy)
>>7417546
>Les champs de Maldoror
The fields of Maldoror, is this bait or some white man's trick?
Also, you should try Les chants de magnétiques by Andre Soupault
>>7418032
It's a french novel...
>>7418032
lel OP is clearly pleb-baiting
Not OP, but I'm looking for similar stuff.
I've recently gotten into the band Swans, and I've been meaning to read pic related, is it worth the $40+?
>>7417546
If you want to really go insane read the New York Trilogy
>>7417546
Kathe Koja - The Cipher
>>7417546
>dark, mad, tortured, disturbing
>doesn't list Swans for music
top pleb
>>7417700
Clive Barker
100%
>>7419136
No, it isn't. It's mediocre at its best.
>>7417546
>Cinema
Rosemary's Baby
The Exorcist
The Cremator
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Possession
>Literature
Borges
László Krasznahorkai
Kafka
>Music
Soundtrack for the Blind by Swans - I'm sure you can find similar elements in their other albums as well.
Giles Corey
Earth
Ben Frost
>>7417546
Bataille, Burroughs, Acker, Beckett, Celine
you're fucking welcome.
>>7420036
also watch Pasolini's Teorema.
there's a part where the protagonist is looking at a book full of Bacon paintings.
>>7419718
but I love it somehow.
>>7417546
berserk the manga.
>>7420085
This, but stop after the inquisition tower arc
>>7417546
I'll just second/third Thomas Ligotti for you, OP. Some of his stories take place in the "real" world, but he's known to use surreal, nightmarish locations that evoke the work of Bacon or Beksinski (best example of the latter would be his story "Vastarien".) Coil would make a perfect soundtrack to read along with his stories. And one of his stories ("Teatro Grottesco") even showed up in an anthology tribute to David Lynch.
>>7419136
I like it.
Check out Bruno Schulz. Not "depraved" like Gira, but does that sort of dreamy prose in very short pieces.
lovecraft. Everything lovecraft.
That is one gay fucking painting, OP.
