afb

u/afb@lemmy.world
5 posts · 30 comments

Recent posts

Recent comments

on Horror Recommendations? · c/fiction · 2 pts · 305d

My usual go-to recommendations for Stephen King readers looking to branch out a bit are The Good House by Tananarive Due, Ghost Story by Peter Straub, and The Kind Folk by Ramsey Campbell.

The first line of Shirley Jackson's Haunting Of Hill House is a banger, the complete first paragraph is incredible.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone

on Brickshelf · c/lemmyshitpost · 11 pts · 320d

Some art pieces change the way you see the world by opening your eyes to new perspectives, others do it by inflicting acute trauma to the occipital lobe.

It's a horror week for me. Currently reading Shoot Me in the Face on A Beautiful Day by Emma E. Murray and also beta reading a horror novel by someone I know. Quite enjoying them both.

Recently read Albert Camus' The Stranger. That was pretty decent. Think I'll go for one of his nonfictional works soonish, been intending to for a while.