Halloween is around the corner. Post spooky

I was thinking of reading The Shining. It's my favorite horror movie.

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>>8643832

Hallowe’en in a Suburb


The steeples are white in the wild moonlight,
And the trees have a silver glare;
Past the chimneys high see the vampires fly,
And the harpies of upper air,
That flutter and laugh and stare.

For the village dead to the moon outspread
Never shone in the sunset’s gleam,
But grew out of the deep that the dead years keep
Where the rivers of madness stream
Down the gulfs to a pit of dream.

A chill wind weaves thro’ the rows of sheaves
In the meadows that shimmer pale,
And comes to twine where the headstones shine
And the ghouls of the churchyard wail
For harvests that fly and fail.

Not a breath of the strange grey gods of change
That tore from the past its own
Can quicken this hour, when a spectral pow’r
Spreads sleep o’er the cosmic throne
And looses the vast unknown.

So here again stretch the vale and plain
That moons long-forgotten saw,
And the dead leap gay in the pallid ray,
Sprung out of the tomb’s black maw
To shake all the world with awe.

And all that the morn shall greet forlorn,
The ugliness and the pest
Of rows where thick rise the stones and brick,
Shall some day be with the rest,
And brood with the shades unblest.

Then wild in the dark let the lemurs bark,
And the leprous spires ascend;
For new and old alike in the fold
Of horror and death are penn’d,
For the hounds of Time to rend.

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Reading through his stories running up to Halloween, perfect combination of comfy and spoopy.

Call Of Cthulhu

>>8646011

Dunwich Horror > Call of Cthulhu

>>8644789
I enjoyed the book aside from the ending, but just know ahead of time that it's pretty different from the movie. There's more psychological tragedy in Jack struggling with alcoholism and anger. Some moments fall flat, but I thought the bathtub scene was even scarier than the movie.

Are there any /lit/ approved horror books? I've never read one, but I am pretty curious. Please no Lovecraft or King.

>>8646108
>>8644733

>>8644733
This book would have been better without the side story about the annoying, whiny tattoo chad.

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Though I would recommend reading his short story collections first. If you only read one collection, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All is the best one, imo

>>8646108
>no Lovecraft
pfft
Hodgson is fun if you like nautical horror. He's also not as """problematic""" as Lovecraft

I'm reading through Lovecrafts works now in october. I'm currently going through his stories chronologically (I have the complete works book) and I'm probably not even going to get to his most famous ones before halloween.

Should I skip forward? If yes, what should I read and in what order?

Dan Simmons - The Terror, Song of Kali
Robert McCammon - Gone South, Swan Song
David Wong - John Dies at the End
Marisha Pessl - Night Film
Scott Smith - The Ruins
Tom Piccirilli - A Choir of Ill Children
Jeremy Robert Johnson - Skullcrack City
Yahtzee Corshaw - Jam
Agota Kristoff - The Notebook, The Proof, and The Third Lie
Dathan Auerbach - Penpal
Thomas Ligotti - Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
Robert Chambers - The King in Yellow
Jeff Vandermeer - Area X Trilogy
Carlton Mellick III - Zombies and Shit, The Morbidly Obese Ninja

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>>8646108
stolen from chart thread for my own use. all credit to anon for the original. I haven't read most of these, so I can't comment on the quality.

I have the New Annotated Dracula and Lovecraft, been saving them for this season. Think I may read Dracula first, as I've never read it but love the film!

>>8646277
>Jeff Vandermeer - Area X Trilogy
This x 1000
Even though they're called The Southern Reach trilogy.
Damn good books.

>>8646029
Dunwich Horror would make a good hentai desu.

>>8646414
This chart is not /lit/-approved since it lacks the german Schauergeschichte, which are the essential birth of the horror story, even in so far that Poe himself made a point to state that the influence of the german schauergeschichten on his works is injust (he claimed this because he was accused of copying from them)

Stuff like The Black Spider or Sandman

>>8646986
>this list of recommendations doesn't meet my arbitrary criteria a bloo bloo bloo

>>8647024
>classic horror
>doesn't contain classic horror

>/lit/-approved
>misses very influential works

>>8647387
what are some that are missing?
>Contribute or
>>>Get out

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>>8646984

>implying it hasn't been done

>>8644733
Came to post this.

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I liked the short story "I have no mouth, and I must scream" By Harlan Ellison. He also has a few interesting stories.

>>8646414
Pilo Family Circus is neither particularly scary nor well written. It was entertaining, though.

Let the Right One In is pretty spooky. His book Handling the Undead is pretty disturbing too.

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>>8643832

Someone rec some spoopy nonfiction pls.

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>>8643832
Gerald's Game still holds up pretty well.

>>8648638
A slow death: 83 days of radiation sickness