Horror

>>9549257
bump to the max

Literature is generally bad at achieving Horror as an aesthetic concept. It's difficult to impress upon a reader that sense of emotion in an isolated, non-sensory medium. Even acclaimed modern horror works (most of which are not horror) are best known through adaptation.

American Psycho is markedly not Horror. Bateman's actions intentionally lack consequence; its antithetical to horror. Frankenstein IS horror, but not very good horror.

The Haunting Of Hill House. Jackson was one hell of a writer.

horror is just bydlo no matter which way you cut it

>>9549272
>American Psycho is markedly not Horror. Bateman's actions intentionally lack consequence; its antithetical to horror.
OP here, yeah, I think it's the kind of thing you would only call horror if you missed the point of the book. But if I was talking to someone about great horror novels and they brought it up I'd let them have it.

>>9549278
They're just a gorehound. And that's cool, but it's not Horror.

The Willows & A Turn of The Screw come to mind.

Also something i read once about a facial transformation after falling asleep in a graveyard after reading the inscription on a huguenot gravestone and slowly (painfully slowly) realizing i've undergone a (painfully) vague facial transformation which i didn't finish, but was boring enough that it's probably considered a highbrow read.

If we forgive his adoption by a counterculture, Edgar Allen Poe is well-respected. Lovecraft and Ligotti probably would be if people know who they are.

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Clive Barker is supposedly well-liked, but pic related is all I've read of him. It's a kids' book.

The Terror by Dan Simmons is pretty gud

>>9549354

lovecraft and ligotti are hardly obscure

Anyone know that story where the kid finds a spool of twine, and if he cuts some of it off, he skips forward in his life? And so he starts cutting bits off to skip over boring parts of his life and then suddenly he's an old man and he's dying? Because that was some horror shit that really destroyed me.

is >>9550107
anything like that? Because no thank you.

There is a part in A Game of Thrones that shocked me. Also, its third book, A Storm of Swords. That series is the only one that I could say frightened me during those two parts. Don't let the rest of /lit/ tell you otherwise, their heads are up their own asses, just like /mu/.

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this is good if you are looking for short stories

>>9549354
Turn of the Screw is trashcan literature. Even with concessions regarding the plot and overuse of tropes, which are painfully obvious in modern standards, the work does nothing new even in its day. It's the definition of derivative.

>implying normies don't froth for stephen king

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>>9551191
Maybe you've heard of the Hellraiser films? Clive Barker wrote the original short story they were based on (The Hellbound Heart) and the screenplay for the first movie. He was not involved in the other films.

I haven't read it, but hopefully that gives you an idea of what his horror is like.

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>>9549257
Is this all bait, or do you all not know anything about Scottish and English literature from the 19th century? I can never tell if you're all so contained in your American backwaters that you actually haven't looked beyond the marketed classics and discovered from where came Gothic.

Should you need hands, I have many. But do you understand how to ask? And from whence do you come?

>>9551126
I mean outside of the internet. I don't think i could discuss Ligotti at a family get-together. I was thinking the same about Howard, the content and not the mythos characters, but on reflecting i begin to doubt it.

>>9553336
I didn't like it either, but it is a valid answer to the OP's question.

>>9553850
As far as I know the novel is really disturbing and graphic, like raping corpses and torture porn stuff. Don't know much besides that.

>>9549257
Give Stephen King a chance, the excesive hate on his writing is just a meme. His most succesful stuff (specially IT ) is pretty good

>>9549257
I don't want to even call this horror as it absolutely isn't but I'm going to bring it up anyway

The Wasp Factory has a somewhat favorable critical reception. That said the only people who would consider it horror are the ones who didn't get it (or likely finish it)

>>9554385
IT is a fucking acid trip
Steven King does deserve the hate though, he's gone from a disturbed author to a hack churning out dogshit

>>9554409
>factory that makes wasps
>not horrifying

>>9554684
Valid point

>>9554375
It's really less gory than the movie from my memory. I don't remember anything viscerally shocking; a little exciting suspense at the very end. I suspect Clive Barker has a reputation for written gore that shows up somewhere else.

I expect it's more shocking if the idea cenobites and BDSM are new to you.

It's a couple hours of reading if you're slow like me, so not something to avoid for fear of wasting time, if you're curious.

>>9554409
Then why the fuck did you mention it if it's not at all relevant to the thread, you fucking cunt?

>>9554842
Damn, Freshman year must be going poorly.

Horror lit is lacking. What I brought up is as relevant to the thread as just about everything else here