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Old >>24776647

Stephen King deserves his spot as the best modern horror writer. His works will truly stand the test of time.

>>24843382 (OP)
good album, the last one I really enjoyed from them. I think Hanns Heinz Ewers is underappreciated, "The Spider" has all the markings of a classic horror short story.

>>24843382 (OP)
Here's a chart

>>24843537
If you enjoyed "The Spider", you should definitely check out Alraune. A great novel about a scientist trying to create a human mandrake.

>>24843665
Let the Right One In is sick.

>>24843765
Yeah, it's a great novel. Easy to read, great characters, and such a bleak and dark story.

>>24843474
The thing is, King doesn't really do pure horror anymore. Usually his stuff is somewhat mild with a paranormal twist.

>>24843474
I've read most of his work and never found his "horror" books even remotely scary. His non-horror books -- THE LONG WALK, APT PUPIL, RAGE, and 11/22/63 -- are better.

Is there any Buddhist type horror?
If you know anything about Samsara, hell realms, etc, you know shit can be pretty fucking harrowing. Would be quite easy to write. theres hell realms where you respawn over and over for thousands of years worth of time while getting slowly crushed to death each life, or realms where demons impale you through your ass out through your mouth with spikes, but you dont die right away so that your suffering is prolonged, shit like that.

>>24844147
There's a great story in Laird Barron's The Imago Sequence that has that kind of horror: "The Procession of the Black Sloth".

>>24844181
Will check it out, seems pretty cool. Thanks.

Stephen Graham Jones

>>24844576
What about him?

>>24843665
I will never understand why Experimental Film is on this list. That book is terrible.

>>24844969
Why didn't you like it?
Are there other works on the list that you read and enjoyed?

>>24842148
His Paperbacks From Hell book was fine, he seems to have a lot of knowledge and enthusiasm for the genre. Maybe he should just stick to nonfiction?

>>24843474
This, but Clive Barker.

>>24845161
Which of his works are your favourites?

>>24845215
Cabal and the first 3 Books of Blood were awesome. In general though, mine would be Hellraiser (the 4 films where he had involvment). Pinhead is such a GOATed design and character and the visuals really elevate the material. Great score too.

>>24843474
Normie alert

why does supernatural horror seem so superior to “grounded” horror?

>>24845215
mine are actually his fantasy works, Weaveworld and Imajica. genuinely fascinating, imaginative stories.

>>24846308
Probably because horror fiction mainly consists of supernatural horror, with only a small percentage being non-supernatural horror. It also doesn't help that those kind of stories sooner fall into the genres of thriller or transgressive fiction, thereby not completely being seen as horror.
For example, Stephen King's Misery and Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs can be seen as both horror and thriller, and Ryu Murakami's In the Miso Soup and Cormac McCarthy's Child of God both fall under transgressive fiction, even though I'm fairly sure most horror fans would definitely enjoy reading those novels.
Another big aspect that plays a role here is that a lot of psychological horror novels still use a small bit of supernatural horror in their stories, automatically making it supernatural horror despite the main horror being psychological. Some examples that I can think of right now are Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, Roland Topor's The Tenant, Thomas Tryon's The Other, and Nathan Ballingrud's North American Lake Monsters.

>>24845077
I did not like the style of writing, and the plot itself was not very engaging. What brought me in was the connection/references to Yezidi religion/mythology, but that ended up only feeling like window dressing to the standard "cursed object" plot.

As for ones on this list, I enjoyed and recommend:
>Ambrose Bierce's stories
>Blackwood's stories
>Lovecraft
>Books of Blood (Barker's stuff is really fun overall, both horror and fantasy)
>The Silence of the Lambs
>Ligotti's works
>North American Lake Monsters
>Brian Evenson's works
>Laird Barron's works
>House of Leaves

>>24846371
I just got a copy of Weaveworld earlier this week. can't wait to get started when I'm done with my current read. Read Imagica last year and I still think about it at least once a week.

>>24847434
Ah nice! What are your favourite works of Barron and Evenson, out of the ones you've read of course?
I've read Books of Blood and The Hellbound Heart when it comes to Barker, and I'm planning on reading Cabal and The Damnation Game at some point. His works are great.

>>24847499
From Barron: Occultation is a good collection. I really like the collection The Beautiful Thing That Awaits us All, with my favorite story being Blackwood's Baby. Another good one is Frontier Death Song which can be read online at Nightmare Magazine.

For Evenson: The two collections on the pic, A Collapse of Horses and Song for the Unraveling of the World are on there since they're the best selections of his shorter work so far. His novel Last Days is also great.

Adam Neville also has a book titled Last Days. Both this and Evenson's Last Days focus on cults and both are great horror reads.

>>24843474
>F. Marion Crawford deserves his spot as the best modern horror writer. His works will truly stand the test of time.

>>24847847
I also thought that Occultation was great. As for Evenson, I found his Last Days to be a lot weaker than his collections, and the second half of the novel felt both a needless addition and a lot worse than the first half. Collapse and Song are both pretty good though. I haven't read anything by Neville yet.

>>24846627
supernatural horror == shit