Anyone here into horror? If so gimme your favorite picks.

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      Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show is definitely in my top 10. His writing is chefs kiss

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    The Deep by Nick Cutter.

    I’m not sure if it’s a case of hindsight, but I finished reading this right before the titanic sub incident and it definitely unlocked a new fear.

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      Ohh nice. It’s on the list. My favorite novela by King is The girl who loved Tom Gordon.

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    Last Days by Brian Evenson has really stuck with me, one of the best and most creative in the ‘cultist’ subgenre. Also seconding Negative Space by BR Yeager.

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        Never again reading

        No but seriously, what a fantastically well written book. The premise seems cliché to start with but the twist halfway through is really original

        I believe it’s been made into a film too

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    Currently listening to The Fisherman by John Langan.

    If you enjoy stories within stories - this nails it. I’m dreading what is still too come, and loving it!

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    A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca, The Troop by Nick Cutter.

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    I will always recommend the Necrososcope series by Brian Lumley - vampires, werewolves, mind powers, and the protag talks to the dead - he makes friends with a dead scientist, learns an equation, and can use the mobius equation to open doorways to anywhere - the first couple of books are slow, but it is soo much fun to read!

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    I like cosmic horror and a good one I’ve found is The Abyss Above Us by Ryan Notch. It’s the story of a computer engineer hired to investigate why a radio observatory’s dish keeps reorienting itself to point at an area of sky with nothing interesting about it.

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      Sounds interesting. I assume you can’t tell us if the dish is actually pointing at something without spoiling it? 😂

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        Nope.

        spoiler

        The astronomers believe it’s pointed at a cosmic void, an area of the universe where stars never formed. It’s pitch black. Turns out it’s actually pointed at something much closer and unimaginably dark in front of those stars.

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      I just added this one to my TBR! The synopsis reminds me of a shorter Three Body Problem (which I really…liked? I’m not sure that’s even the right word for that series lol).