Weird Fiction

>>9226232
Oh man, Lovecraft isn't even that weird. Here's some recomendations.

Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford- short stories about dogs, and people fucking dogs, and dog-human hybrids, and people killing dogs.

Naked Lunch by William Burroughs: Lots of gay alien sex, alien drugs and alien drug dealers. Some murder and executions as well.

1000 Days of Sodom by de Sade- Snuff, Pedophilia, Scat, etc

Cities of the Red Night by William Burroughs: Ancient cities of sex and drugs, an anarchist pirate community where a guy invents the revolver. Also cowboys.

Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino: short stories about dinosaurs, evolving molluscs and anthropomorphized planets.

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>>9226232

>>9226250
>>9226253
It's worth mentioning Weird Fiction is a genre nit just literally fiction that is weird.

e.g., Lovecraft, Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith etc.

>>9226271
ooooooh, sorry, I generally just refer to that as Pulp, but you're specifically talking about Weird Tales and that stuff.

Finding scans of Weird Tales is pretty easy.

Robert E. Howard's Conan and Kull stuff is pretty good, if you don't mind it's tacky and simplistic racism. But it's part of the genre really, no avoiding it.

L. Sprague Du Camp wrote some really great alternate history and strange stuff. I haven't read a lot of his stuff, but there are lots of republished short story collections.

Clark Ashton Smith is another one of their circle. August Derleth is another. Derleth is better remembered for his regionalist non-fiction accounts of small town life in wisconsin. At the Prairie Du Chien library you can see a telescope that Lovecraft gave to him.

Algernon Blackwood
M.R. James
Arthur Machen
Richard Gavin
William Hope Hodgson

>>9226295
>>9226308
Which stories?

>>9226336
For Howard, I'd suggest The Devil in Iron or The Tower of the Elephant.

For L. Sprauge De Camp I'd suggest Aristotle and the Gun, Language for Time Travelers, The Wheels of If

>>9226336
Blackwood - Ancient Sorceries and Other Stories
James - Curious Warnings
Machen - The House of Souls
Gavin - Charnel Wine
Hodgson - Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

The final boss of Lovecraftian horror fiction is Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani.

It's basically the Necronomicon. If Abdul Alhazred were born in Iran in the 60s and lived through the revolution, oil booms and busts, gulf wars and the war on terror, ISIS, etc. and wrote the Necronomicon in 2008 the end product would be Cyclonopedia.

tl;dr The middle east is a living entity, oil is the Earth's death-drive made sentient, capitalism is an alien invader, a fifth columnist in the planet's war against all life including its own.

>>9226567
Yeah, it's a cool book, but it really bears no resemblance to the coherent pulp scifi/fantasy/horror tales that OP is wanting.

>>9226250
I still appreciate the post anon.

>>9226571
True.

To actually contribute I think The White People by Arthur Machen is one of the best weird fiction stories and I've tried to emulate its ability to bring you into the girl's subjectivity a few times but I'm not good enough.

Kiss of the Black God though is my all-time fave.

>>9226232
Chambers
Ligotti
Bierce

>>9226596
>Kiss of the Black God
that's by c.l. moore, not machen, and it's called black god's kiss, but nonetheless, you have great taste

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Go for the classics first.

>>9226567
Negarestani is based, how Cyclonopedia has not got more recognition on lit I genuinely do not understand. His philosophy stuff is great too.

t. Farsi-speaking anon