Horror

>>9427212
I could watch my dad rape an amputee midget and still not cringe as hard as i did at that pic

>>9427212
Edgar Alan Poe

The Fall of House Usher was especially good.

>horror novels
>great
If you want to read a book with ghosts, go with The Turn of the Screw

>>9427212
Anything by Lovecraft honestly.

>>9427554
>>9427538

These are pretty common reads. I was thinking maybe you guys knew something that I couldn't get from Googling.

>>9427638
telling you shit I have read and like.
I'm pretty certain 99% of the people on /lit/ don't care about horror anyways...

>>9427212
"Once upon a midnight dreary, there I pondered weak and weary..."

I recommend the short stories 'The Clown Puppet' and 'The Red Tower' by Ligotti. Some of his other stores from Teatro Grottesco are good, but those two spooked me the most.

Oh yeah, 'The Town Supervisor' is pretty weird, too.

Horror is best in short story format.

that said, check out:
T.E.D. Klein - The Ceremonies (apocalyptic horror influenced by the works of Arthur Machen. The main character is writing a dissertation on Gothic literature so the whole thing is sprinkled with references to older works.)
Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney (occult horror set in a rain drenched religious retreat near the coasts of England)
Tom Piccirilli - A Choir of Ill Children (all the trappings of Southern Gothic fiction mixed with body horror)
stretching "horror" with this one but Theodore Roszak - Flicker (an obsessive film scholar delves into the works of an obscure director and discovers that the history of film is tied with an antinatalist philosophy subliminally influencing the world)

also The Turn of the Screw is obvious, but seconding that.

if you like manga junji ito's stuff is really great. uzumaki would be a good start.

Ratman's Notebooks.

>>9427212

The Hellbound Heart is a decent horror novella. Try that.

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>>9427212
The Twenty Days of Turin

Lol at these pretentious douchebags. Just read Stephen King like a non-virgin.

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i really like Nathan Ballingrud's weird fiction short stories, great stuff even if he drops the ball at the ending half the time

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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

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>>9429077
Ditto on that. Great story.

>>9427212
If you don't mind more experimental, postmodern stuff, give House of Leaves a shot. It's challenging but rewarding, and I found it to be a quite effective horror story.

>>9428093
>novels