Horror general? Just finished The Ritual by Adam Nevill. Found

>>8946619
how was the atmosphere?

>>8947756
Very good for a cliché innawoods story. A realistic and immersive execution of the Swedish forestlands.

>>8946619
I don't understand how people can get scared reading books. I'm not saying this to criticize you guys. On the contrary, I want to learn from you. Can you teach me something that will make me get scared from books?

>>8947805
Read The King in Yellow. It was genuinely spoopy and strange.

>>8947815

Not OP but I am reading it now. Carcosa.

>>8947815
Did anyone read this before True Detective pretended to reference it?

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>>8947815
i have, but i'm a legit sperglord.

>>8947805
OP here, I don't get scared by horror (except It Follows, and that's because I'm schizophrenic and the concept really got to me for obvious reasons). It just intrigues me hugely. I enjoyed the Ritual because it was gripping while dealing with that subject matter that I enjoy so much, I.E. spoopy innawoods stuff.

>>8947932
I'm glad the show did reference it or I might not have heard about it.

>>8946619
read weird horror ya goon

off the top of my head:
lovecraft, machen, dunsany, clark ashton smith, algernon blackwood, robert chambers
include conrad, bierce, and schulz for more weird vibes, albeit not always/very horror

weird fiction will ruin normal horror for you

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>>8946619

I started to read The Ritual. The atmospherics and immersion-in-the-woods feel was terrific in the first half or first third. It really put a spell on me. But at some point, after he left the house and started wandering up the hillside, the book lost it grip on me and I haven't gone back to it.

>>8947805
>I don't understand how people can get scared reading books.

It's fairly unusual that I become genuinely *scared* (although it does happen, albeit less frequently as I get older). More typically, what I look for in horror fiction is a certain *flavor* of experience/atmosphere, i.e., that flavor and various shades of flavor that the horror genre delivers, which might be compared to the strong flavors delivered by other notable genres, such as the western book and film, the film noir genre, etc.

Many books promise the feels of horror, through their atmospheric covers, but relatively few really deliver.

The prologue to the first volume of A Song of Ice and Fire comes to find as superb horror set-piece that was a pleasure to read.