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Anonymous03/06/26, 20:35No.25125217/hfg/-Horror Fiction General
Clark Ashton Smith edition
Notable Authors: H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, Robert Bloch, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edogawa Rampo, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Brian Evenson, William Hope Hodgson, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R Kiernan, Laird Barron, Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon, Brian Lumley, Stefan Grabinski, Peter Straub, and many many more
Discuss your favorite horror tales in both short and long form. What have you read lately? What do you want to read? What's a work of horror fiction or an author who you want to recommend?
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Anon03/06/26, 20:36No.25125219
Lovecraft is dogshit
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Anon03/06/26, 20:38No.25125224
Finally getting some recognition here
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Anon03/06/26, 21:01No.25125273
The premise of this is the gayest thing known to man, it's entirely about how the Innsmouthers were good actually. I am convinced Alan Moore was the only guy to do a Lovecraft critique in a way that didn't feel like seething hatred from a retard
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Anon03/06/26, 22:10No.25125433
What's the worst horror novel/story any of you have read?
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Anon03/07/26, 01:29No.25125669
What is it about pulp horror (in the modern sense not horror in pulps) that makes Joshi seethe so much
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Anon03/07/26, 02:50No.25125762
Why isn't Long as talked about as the others in the Lovecraft circle
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Anon03/07/26, 04:10No.25125867
A few random stories to recommend:
>Who Goes There? by John W Campbell*
>The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis by Clark Ashton Smith*
>The Empire of the Necromancers by Clark Ashton Smith*
>The Return of the Sorcerer by Clark Ashton Smith*
>Guts by Chuck Palahniuk
>The Father-thing by Philip K Dick
>Faith of Our Fathers by Philip K Dick
>Procession of the Black Sloth by Laird Barron*
>Pickman's Modern by Lawrence Watt-Evans
>The Black Stone by Robert E Howard
>Jerusalem's Lot by Stephen King
>Autopsy in Room 4 by Stephen King
>The Man in the Underpass by Ramsey Campbell*
The authors^^^ with a star beside their name, those titles are all I've read by them and I could use some recommendations for other stories to read those authors in particular. I want to read more Laird Barron but his short stories are really more like novelettes in length and while I liked Black Sloth I find it hard to convince myself to just pick up the collection it's in and read the rest of it front to back.
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Anon03/07/26, 04:13No.25125873
Don't believe anyone who shills Colin Wilson. He's a boring writer and he does not really understand horror.
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Anon03/07/26, 06:57No.25125995
>Clark Ashton Smith edition
I've read a few stories of his recently, The Second Interment, The Chain of Aforgomon, and The Dark Eidolon. The first one was very predictable and the weakest story of his I've read so far, also the darkest. The second was alright, I see why it's one of the more popular stories of his but I liked The Chain of Aforgomon more.
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Anon03/07/26, 08:42No.25126088
I bought some Wrath James White books recently, what am I in for?
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Anon03/07/26, 18:02No.25126324
about to read
what i getting into
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Anon03/07/26, 18:07No.25126335
I've been dabbling in writing short horror stories, but I end up just veering into horror comedy. Nothing scares or disturbs me.
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Anon03/08/26, 06:33No.25127455
I made a theoretical table of contents for an anthology for the best American short horror stories of the 20th century. One story and author for one year.>1900: The Affair at Grover Station by Willa Cather
>1901: The Seal of Solomon the Great by Wardon Allan Curtis
>1902: The Dead and the Countess by Gertude Atherton
>1903: The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
>1904: The Furnished Room by O. Henry
>1905: For Blood Is the Life by F. Marion Crawford
>1906: The House of the Nightmare by Edward Lucas White
>1907: The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce
>1908: The Jolly Corner by Henry James
>1909: Secret Chambers by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
>1910: Afterward by Edith Wharton
>1911: The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew by Damon Runyon
>1912: The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
>1913: Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb
>1914: The Substitute by Georgia Wood Pangborn
>1915: The Third Eye by Robert W. Chambers
>1916: Almost Immortal by Austin Hall
>1917: The Woman at Seven Brothers by Wilbur Daniel Steele
>1918: Absolute Evil by Julian Hawthorne
>1919: Wolf of the Steppes by Greye La Spina
>1920: The Ship of Silent Men by Philip M. Fisher
>1921: The Post-Mortem Murder by Sinclair Lewis
>1922: The Salamander by William B. Seabrook
>1923: The Thing from – “Outside” by George Allan England
>1924: The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Edward Connell
>1925: The Stranger from Kurdistan by E. Hoffmann Price
>1926: The Woman of the Wood by A. Merritt
>1927: The Canal by Everil Worrell
>1928: The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft
>1929: The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long
>1930: A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
>1931: Mr. Arcularis by Conrad Aiken
>1932: The Thing in the Cellar by David H. Keller
>1933: Revelations in Black by Carl Jacobi
>1934: The Jest of Warburg Tantavul by Seabury Quinn
>1935: The Treader of the Dust by Clark Ashton Smith
>1936: The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner
>1937: The Black Stone Statue by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
>1938: Pigeons from Hell by Robert E. Howard
>1939: Cross of Fire by Lester del Rey
>1940: It by Theodore Sturgeon
>1941: Nightfall by Isaac Asimov
>1942: Mimic by Donald A. Wollheim
>1943: The Geezenstacks by Frederic Brown
>1944: The Jar by Ray Bradbury
>1945: Miriam by Truman Capote
>1946: The Cocoon by John B. L. Goodwin
>1947: The Extra Passenger by August Derleth
>1948: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
>1949: The Girl with the Hungry Eyes by Fritz Leiber(1/2)
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Anon03/08/26, 06:38No.25127459
>There's an actual anti WMAF horror novel now
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Anon03/08/26, 06:55No.25127476
I’m currently reading the folk horror novel Fellstones by Ramsey Campbell. It’s pretty new (from 2022).It’s a bit of a slow burn of a novel. There has been only a few scary parts. Also, a lot of references to classical music and composers so if that’s your thing I’d recommend it.Not sure if I would recommend it overall yet. I’m going to finish first before I give my final thoughts.
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Anon03/08/26, 07:02No.25127486
Shout out to Asterism Book Occult fiction anthologies. Great way to read occult horror stories from older authors and contemporary ones.
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Anon03/08/26, 14:58No.25127887
Might as well link the previous threads we had for a horror general:https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25029046
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24929884
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24919376
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24843382
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24776647
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24736100
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24702117
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24385173
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24379166
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24200898
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24157946
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24036985
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23952664
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23930576
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23910101
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23896956
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23867635
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23816288
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/22573566
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/21918564
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/21420013
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/21278469
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/21252982
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/21240316
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/21213365
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/21202202
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/21202202
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/21036391
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/20976838
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/20950937
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/20919234
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/20916892
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/20911947
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/20890888
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/20876614
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/20851186
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/20052441
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/19757838
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/18893545
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/18673030
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/18530220
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/18365391
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/18174458
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/17616533
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/17249312
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/16884006
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/16485279
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/15810843
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/15793667
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/15773272
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/15767545
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/14743797
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/13385436
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/13177070
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/13063718
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/9981048
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/9233795
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/8086095
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/7832882
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/7250450
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/6776186
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/6776171
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/6634591
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Anon03/08/26, 15:24No.25127915
Has anyone read Laird Barron's latest collection that came out late last year?Is it any good?
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Anon03/08/26, 16:09No.25127977
>Remember this blog called the Plutonian that had a lot of good articles and interviews with horror authors I liked.
>Was also a small press that published anthologies occasionally.
>See the website is gone: http://www.theplutonian.com/
>Find out the person who ran it got exposed for sending rape threats to a random women (Not even in the horror fiction field)https://old.reddit.com/r/WeirdLit/comments/1mumxj4/warning_to_the_weird_lit_community_scott_dwyer/Well this sucks.
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Anon03/08/26, 23:51No.25128818
Why are British horror writers so much better then American ones?
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Anon03/09/26, 01:26No.25129001
There was this YouTube channel that did good audiobooks of horror stories called Eldritch Archives, and they seemed to have taken down everything from their channel.https://www.youtube.com/@TheEldritchArchives
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Anon03/09/26, 01:56No.25129060
Just checking in to say Blindsight sucked.
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Anon03/09/26, 17:26No.25130002
Song of Kali is a little bit racist, isn't it
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Anon03/10/26, 07:31No.25131265
>>>At least 90% of the "horror" in Song of Kali is just pointing out how fucking filthy, disgusting and smelly a major Indian population center is
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Anon03/10/26, 11:49No.25131476
I read two Clive Barker books, Weaveworld and The Great and Secret Show. Are his other books better? I found those two to be interesting thematically but meandering and bloated otherwise. They didn't need to be 700 pages each, not nearly.
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Anon03/10/26, 11:56No.25131487
It's not "horror" in the sense this general intends, but sometimes true crime just rises to that level. Picrel being a legitimately scary book. Another nonfiction book that gets genuinely scary is Programmed to Kill by David McGowan; actually, you had might as well pair that with Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon since they overlap a lot and both have a lot of scary and disturbing stories/details. I'm gonna make a thread in this vein actually.
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Anon03/11/26, 03:54No.25133056
This any good?
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Anon03/12/26, 00:11No.25134632
The Road by McCarthy is basically a horror novel isn't it?
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Anon03/12/26, 07:29No.25135177
I read a Poppy Z Brite story for the first time ever recently and it was just an obvious and shitty rehash of The Hound by Lovecraft. Incidentally this was the first time I had ever read anything by a transgender author before and I'm definitely unimpressed. Is this the best they've got, a gay and black and trans remake of an early Lovecraft story? Fuck off.
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Anon03/12/26, 07:52No.25135196
What Stephen King books have you read
I've read
>Carrie
>Pet Sematary
>The Shining
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>Misery
I got pretty far into IT as well as The Stand but couldn't finish them.
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Anon03/14/26, 14:00No.25139683
Is pic related horror or nah?
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Anon03/14/26, 14:01No.25139685
Best horror fantasy novel?
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Anon03/14/26, 21:41No.25140390
Is early Ligotti and later Ligotti really that different? It seems to me that every trait people associate with his work is already present full force in Songs of A Dead Dreamer
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Anon03/15/26, 03:58No.25141281
What did we think of it?
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Anon03/15/26, 08:01No.25141530
Why is Noctuary by Ligotti so impossible to find without paying several hundred dollars for it? Why is that one still out of print?