Contemporary cosmic horror

>>9734964
Ballad of Black Tom

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>>9734964
Read Thomas Ligotti's short story collection "Teatro Grottesco". His stories "Town Manager" and "The Bungalow House" are incredible. The man has literally been described by critics as the modern Lovecraft. His horror focuses more on the hum-drum, bureaucratic meaninglessness that afflicts the everyday worker's life. Lovecraft makes his monsters feel otherworldly, Ligotti makes his monsters feel corporate, and as a result much more realistically relevant to one's life.

Seriously read his stuff. Pic related.

>>9736466
That's really boring and I don't want to read more of him, now.

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>>9734964
The Black Wings anthology series edited by ST Joshi. They're up to volume 5

>>9734964
catcuck

>>9735130
Race focused SJW tier trash. Fuck off with that.

>>9736718
I thought this too but it really is actually good.

>>9736475
It's boring, not because whatever that anon was talking about. Corporate monsters? No, it's boring because he has little imagination, check that quote. It reads like that all the time. Lovecraft was a rather bad writer but his lore is great to explore. Ligotti is just a gloomy chap describing a downpour as demonic rain. Wouldn't read again. I would end up switching to Le Fanu or M. R. James again after 15 pages anyway.

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>>9734964

Blindsight by Peter Watts deals with a more concretely explained "other" in the universe, and even if it is not exactly as metaphysical as Lovecraft's creatures and universe and explanations as a fan you'd probably still like it.

>>9736466
the corporate monster stuff sounds interesting, but that was really lame to read desu. Lovecraft's not a literary prose god, but that excerpt...

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I've found that when Ligotti is on point he really is all he's hyped up to be as the contemporary Lovecraft. Unfortunately, the only collection of his I've read, the Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe anthology, was uneven in providing these moments. A few stories were outstanding, but quite a lot were less so. Perhaps that was a result of it being two books in one that it felt overlong and overfilled, so I'm still looking forward to trying Teatro Grottesco.

Machen is really doing it for me recently, but is in no way contemporary, sorry.

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