Thunder
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Reged: 04/19/02
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Loc: Oslo, Norway
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I think any lit horror forum should have a thread like this up and running.
I'm currently into the fourth and latest book in Christopher Golden's "Shadow Saga" titled THE GATHERING DARK. I think Golden has proven himself to be one of the best contemporary dark fantasists around today. I'm only talking out of my own limied experience, of course, but this guy's imagination is running overtime. In THE GATHERING DARK you have the world slowly being taken over by hell, with demons slipping through the cracks in reality for wholesale massacres and entire cities disappearing from the map of the earth into alternative dimensions of hell. You have all manner of hideous creatures and ghastly gore going on. It's up to a handful of powerful magicians and good-guy vampires to save the day. This is a really cool book that is a riot to read if you can go for this stuff.
Can be read on its own but if you are keen on dropping into this universe where magic and the supernatural co-exist with our political reality you should start with the first in the series, OF SAINTS AND SHADOWS. Highly recommended.
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"My associate has denied christ
Earthly, heavenly, and hellish.
The only guiding light
To you who rejoice to see blood flow"
-- R. Nattefrost (Lunar Nights)
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SpiritofMyers25
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Reged: 11/24/03
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Loc: USA
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Right now, I'm reading one of Stephen King's short story collections, Four Past Midnight which has The Landgoliers, Secret Window; Secret Garden, The Library Policeman, and The Sun Dog.
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"Men should be like kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable." -Madeline Kahn in the 1985 dark comedy, Clue
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Sicky
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Reged: 11/15/04
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Loc: The Netherlands
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I don't read much, but there is one book which I read from
every day, you can see it as my bible. It the "Book of the
Black Earth", the "Book of the Dead", alias "The Necronomicon" written by Abdul Alhazred and used by H.P. Lovecraft.
Anf if I read it would be a short story from H.P. Lovecraft.
I would recomment the "Call of Cthulhu" or "The Alchemist".
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Stoop not down, therefore
Unto the Darkly Shining World
Where the ABSU lies in Dark Waters
And CUTHALU sleeps and dreams.
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cryingcrows
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Right now I am reading Major Tales and Poems by Poe. It is really good because it has poe's best work and alot of his veary best poems, but the book you are reading sounds good.
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"The agony of my soul found vent in one loud,long and final scream of despair."
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Warlord
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Reged: 01/21/04
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Loc: Charlotte, NC, USA
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Quote:
I don't read much, but there is one book which I read from
every day, you can see it as my bible. It the "Book of the
Black Earth", the "Book of the Dead", alias "The Necronomicon" written by Abdul Alhazred and used by H.P. Lovecraft.
Anf if I read it would be a short story from H.P. Lovecraft.
I would recomment the "Call of Cthulhu" or "The Alchemist".
I thought Abdul Alhazred was HP Lovecraft's penname when he was five?
I have trouble reading Lovecraft. Right now, i'm reading Cujo by Stephen King. I might read some more Robert E. Howard later on.
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Jester's tears, they are inside me.
Agony's the script for my Requiem.
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ManowarKills
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Reged: 10/20/03
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Loc: Northwest America
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Im reading "Confessions of a Yakuza" forgot the author, but he is a doctor who would visit is patient every week and talk to him, the author writes the stories he is told. I guess its true too. So far so good.
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koroshiya1
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Reged: 11/07/04
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Loc: New Orleans, La
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reading battle royale.
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Fenril
Rotting Corpse
Reged: 06/25/03
Posts: 369
Loc: Mexico City, Mexico
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Quote:
"The Necronomicon" written by Abdul Alhazred and used by H.P. Lovecraft.
Anf if I read it would be a short story from H.P. Lovecraft.
I would recomment the "Call of Cthulhu" or "The Alchemist".
I thought Abdul Alhazred was HP Lovecraft's penname when he was five?
Both The Necronomicon and its writer, Abdul, are literary inventions from Lovecraft, including the essay were he reveals the story of the Necronomicon (he's writing a fictional essasy, in the vein of Borges and other fantasy writers). All books claiming to be the Necronomicon were written after Lovecraft's dead, trough it's not clear who wrote most of them (the writers from Lovecraft's circle, perhaps?)
I'm currently reading Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh, and Paradise Lost, by John Milton. The latter concerns the adventures of Satan before the creation of mankind and Eve's discovery of reason (which then leads to damnation). Very good... Trainspotting is also good, but somehow not as fun (or as funny) as the movie.
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Laurie Birgham took an axe,
gave her husband forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
she gave his girlfriend forty-one.
--Joan Crawford's Strait-jacket
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Fenril
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Reged: 06/25/03
Posts: 369
Loc: Mexico City, Mexico
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Of the books you have mentioned:
- Four past midnight --very good nouvelles, here. Not as good as "Different Seasons" IMHO, but worth checking out. I especially liked "The library policeman" --very disturbing in places.
- Cujo. The first King novel I ever read... very fast-paced (has no chapters at all!) and a lot more character-driven that you'd expect from what is supposedly a "killer dog" story. Appropiately nasty ending, too.
- Battle Royale. Quite good, trough the english translation is a bit hard to follow. I'm reading it in paralell to the manga version that Tokyopop is getting out, so right now I'm up to the beggining of part III [The part that opens with Sugimura vs. Mitsuko.] Very nasty, yet very human.
I haven't read any of the others... "Confessions of a Yakuza" sounds quite interesting. The tile alone makes me interested.
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Laurie Birgham took an axe,
gave her husband forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
she gave his girlfriend forty-one.
--Joan Crawford's Strait-jacket
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Thunder
Rotting Corpse
Reged: 04/19/02
Posts: 177
Loc: Oslo, Norway
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CUJO is the only early King novel that I've yet to read. The book has been sitting in my shelf for many years now. Looking forward to getting into this one sometime.
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"My associate has denied christ
Earthly, heavenly, and hellish.
The only guiding light
To you who rejoice to see blood flow"
-- R. Nattefrost (Lunar Nights)
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JNewman
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Reged: 08/13/03
Posts: 22
Loc: NC
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Currently reading:
- SIMS, by F. Paul Wilson (more sci-fi than his usually thriller/crime/horror stuff, but I'm enjoying the hell out of it . . . anything by Wilson is a treat)
- THE DEVIL IN GREY, by Graham Masterton (God, I love this guy's stuff . . . he's quickly moving toward the very top of my "Favorite Authors" list)
- LONG HORN, BIG SHAGGY by Steve Vernon (think "RE-ANIMATOR in the Old West" to get a feel for this whacky novella . . . not quite what I expected, but I'm diggin' it for the most part)
Will probably be starting SPIRAL in a day or two (by the author of the original RINGU novel) . . . looking forward to that one!
James
http://www.james-newman.com
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Hellraiser_
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Reged: 12/03/03
Posts: 1314
Loc: Maine
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Carrie would have to be my fav King novel.
I am currently reading The Drawing of The Three by SK.
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Warlord
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Reged: 01/21/04
Posts: 73
Loc: Charlotte, NC, USA
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Thanks for the Lovecraft Explaination.
Anyway, I've finished Cujo, depressing really. I'm not reading Lord of the Isle by David Drake. Not horror, but It'll do.
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Jester's tears, they are inside me.
Agony's the script for my Requiem.
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