Hi /lit/, recently read the call of Cthulhu and am in the mood for some spooky stories. Just wanted to ask for any recommendations on essential horror books.
Thank you
The Greeks.
>>7712044
Uzumaki
Books of Blood
The Hellbound Heart
>>7712044
Spinoza
>>7712066
Thanks for the recommendations. Will definitely read the Clive Barker novels.
>>7712044
Just finished this and it's now one of my favorite books
>>7712088
Seems quite interesting, will definitely give it a read.
Thanks for the recommendation.
Of recent authors, give Ligotti a try, he writes great short stories, get Teatro Grottesco
Also try The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron, another good "modern" horror writer.
If you like "weird" and horror get VanderMeer's The Weird, a huge collection of short stories/novellas from the last 100 years.
>>7712108
These, as well as Arthur Machen and Ambrose Bierce if you want things more contemporary to Lovecraft rather than modenr.
Algernon Blackwood was a favorite of Lovecraft. Check out his stuff.
Modern stuff (all short-story collections)
Mark Samuels - The Man Who Collected Machen
Nathan Ballingrud - North American Lake Monsters
Richard Gavin - At Fear's Altar
Reggie Oliver - Flowers of the Sea
Nicole Cushing - The Mirrors
Brendan Connell - Unpleasant Tales
>>7712140
Will do, thanks.
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock is Southern Gothic with some truly frighting themes. No monsters or anything but the people are fucking horrifying.
>>7712146
Very nice. have noted these down, will definitely look into them.
Thanks for the recommendations man
>>7712155
Sounds good. will add it to the list, thank you.
I enjoyed Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts. It's got a good mix of stories, and it really showcases what he's all about.
>>7712198
Seems great, will look into it.
Thanks for the recommendation
>>7712108
>Laird Barron
Muh niggah. I'd suggest any/all of his books, OP.
>>7712067
I laughed even though Im confused
Every suggestion here sucks. Read John Dies At The End by David Wong. It's hilarious and terrifying, ain't no try-hard Ligotti garbage. Also better than any King novel, creepier than any Lovecraft.
>>7713868
>everything here sucks
>posts gimmicky shit from Cracked of all places
Yeah, nah
>>7713875
Don't care. Your loss. Yeah Wong writes for Cracked and Cracked is terrible. Still better than anything suggested, buttboi.
>>7712113
I picked up a collection of Bierce stories last year and I waa really disappointed. I remember liking The Eyes of the Panther, and also the one with a title that had to do with a gulch, but really disliked the rest.
>>7713868
>John Dies At The End by David Wong
>Underage teenie faggot detected
>>7713908
You read it and found it boring...?
>>7713917
>Calls everything else in the thread shit
>Suggest pop lit, lowest common denominator garbage
Kill yourself.
dracula
>>7713922
Oh man, you're right. Fuck reading outside your comfort zone.
>>7713868
"everybody stop liking what I don't like".
>>7713945
Ligotti isn't spooky.
>>7713944
John Dies... is too far inside everyone's comfort zone, that's the problem with it
>>7713953
No one here read it... It's outside /lit/'s zone.
>>7713868
Now this is high quality bait
>>7712044
My diary.
