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Short horror story anthologies/collections 2017-06-25 12:49:41 Post No.
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Short horror story anthologies/collections...
Read any good ones? I have read a few at this point of varying quality. For some reason, editors insist on putting at least a few shit stores among the good.
So, if you know of any high quality collections, please share.
Note: There were only two books in pic related's series. 2014/2015. Both had very interesting stories but the publisher pulled the plug.
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Halfway through this. A lot of the stories aren't really horror though. Many are just "weird" in the literal sense of the term, not in the cosmic horror way Lovecraft used.
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Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year series is also really good.
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I don't think there should be a compulsion for weird fiction to follow after Lovecraft's cosmic nihilism.
Lovecraft after all modeled his stories - their structure and atmosphere - off of Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood etc., which had a more esoteric, 'bewitching nature' basis. And honestly I prefer both of them to Lovecraft, and I love him, but a weird reality is much more compelling from an esoteric, 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'-type point-of-view than a nihilistic one.
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>>9679630
OP here.. About halfway through that one and quite disappointed. Feels like wading through a lot of shit to find the odd gem. Hopefully I will find more stories that connect with me.
Best story so far was Between the Pilings by Steve Rasni
I stopped reading it and picked up pic related, and I am about halfway through that too. The stories are good but not quite spooking me the way I hoped.
Here is a good short story reading if you guys are in the mood:
The Town Manager - Thomas Ligotti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKl_kNXc7Vs
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A little off topic, but I finally dipped into Laird Barron after seeing his name bandied about for awhile.
It's top-tier stuff, and some of his best stories are online in authorized free versions.
Check out, in particular, Old Virginia and Frontier Death Song from this list:
http://www.freesfonline.de/authors/Laird_Barron.html
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Barker's "Books Of Blood" should be a given.
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>>9680234
PS: That website I linked to, if you go to the horror authors, the collection for each author is like a virtual short story collection.
E.g.:
Joe Lansdale:
>http://www.freesfonline.de/authors/Joe%20R._Lansdale.html
(Night They Missed the Horror Show is a must-read, folks)
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David Drake, Night and Demons.
This is a very good, solid collection. I particularly enjoyed the stories set in Vietnam.
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