Is there any genuinely frightning horror in literature?

>>9285699
Wating for Godot

>>9285699
Yes. see: critical theory on the frightening horrors of capital and resulting consumerism, mass spectacle, commodification, and ennui.

But seriously, there's a pretty good Horror guide in the wiki, but I don't believe any book could truly 'frighten' in the sense we mean in the 21st century, post-film and television.

>>9285699
if 1984 doesnt scare the shit out of you then idk what will

>>9285839
>being scared by an instruction manual

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>>9285738
To combine your ironic and unironic points, pic related uses the basic logic of "capital and resulting consumerism, mass spectacle, commodification, and ennui" in a supernatural context to produce some good atmospheric scares.

>The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind dream about selling, creating that which all of our efforts were tacitly supposed to achieve: the ultimate product -- Nothing. And for this product they would command the ultimate price -- Everything.

>>9285839

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

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>>9285926
/lit/ is so depressingly predictable

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>>9285699

It would have to be poetry.

>>9285699

Pessoa and Bartleby for describing my state of mind, tbqh.

>>9285699
crime and punishment's redrum scene creeped me out as a kid

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>>9285699
The Gulag Archipelago

Or those pick your own adventure goosebumps books once you realize that some choice you made a long time ago in real life could have jumped you to a death page