Horror Thread Horror in my opinion is one of the most underappreciated

Literature Thread

Literature in my opinion is one of the most underappreciated genres on the planet. When one who isn't very well acquainted with the genre thinks "literature" they think Shakespeare plays and the complex works the Greeks produced. Personally I think the concept of good writing is incredibly interesting subjects to read about.
Lets have a thread dedicated to literature as a genre and the geniuses who influenced it. (Homer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Dante, ect)

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Redhook was lovecrafts best short story
king is a long winded hack
House on the Borderland is the best horror story of all time

>>9085417
wot

Horror is a genre that seeks to evoke in its readers a single emotion: fear. It's similar to the comedy genre in this sense. Both are basically pornography. They rely on a few basic elements to achieve that emotion.

>>9085565
>Implying that a horror novel can only inspire fear and can only be two dimensional

My nigga you can have a horror novel that is meant to inspire as many emotions as you want as long as one of the most prominent is spooky

>>9085318


Stephen King is an excellent world-builder but his actual stories are pretty eh.

The King in Yellow is worth reading for "The Yellow Sign" alone.

>>9085565
Not true. 'Quality' horror is about evoking sober reflection through allegory, metaphor, analogy, ect.

Lovecraft, for instance, tries to make the reader think of the universe in a less anthropocentric way and stresses the reader to focus on how limited of a capacity that humans actually have to understand the cosmos.

I will agree with you though when it comes to writers like King, it is just fear porn.

"The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant is pretty awesome, no wonder it greatly influenced Lovecraft. One of the best horror pieces out there.