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Creepy Books 1
#1201620 - 01/08/03 03:36 PM (21 years, 24 days ago) |
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I have always been awed by the darker sides of human nature. I am currently reading Moby Dick and loving it. However, I don't really know where to go from here. Does anyone have any recomendations for some scary novels? I don't mean stuff like Stephen King, I'm looking for books that delve into the untalked about side of our nature, books I can get something out of other than cursing and gore.
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Re: Creepy Books [Re: Anonymous] 1
#1201646 - 01/08/03 03:41 PM (21 years, 24 days ago) |
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"Aegypt" and "Daemonomania" by John Crowley... I highly recommend them.
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#1202503 - 01/08/03 11:42 PM (21 years, 24 days ago) |
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Re: Creepy Books [Re: Anonymous] 1
#1202791 - 01/09/03 01:56 AM (21 years, 24 days ago) |
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books by charles de lint... ~ _island_ by aldous huxley ~ philp k dick (_a scanner darkly_ is one scary look at the drug subculture) ~ theodore sturgeon ~ cordwainer smith ~ zenna henderson's "people" stories ~ _the mystery of things_ by patrick le nestour (in western mystery stories, you ask "whodunnit"; in japanese mystery stories, you ask "what the hell was that?" ~ ambrose bierce ~ edgar allen poe ~ _monkey_ (the arthur waley collection is nice...) ~ ~ ~
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Re: Creepy Books [Re: Anonymous] 1
#1203106 - 01/09/03 04:46 AM (21 years, 24 days ago) |
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Memnock the devil, anne rice
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Re: Creepy Books [Re: ] 1
#1203917 - 01/09/03 10:11 AM (21 years, 24 days ago) |
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Thank you all for the suggestions. I checked out Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked Tis Way Comes, and Island. I'll check out some of the others when I finish these three.
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Re: Creepy Books [Re: Anonymous] 1
#1204482 - 01/09/03 01:56 PM (21 years, 23 days ago) |
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Oddly enough, when this thread was loading, I was thinking about Ray Bradbury and Fahrenheit 451. Many of his books are weird, but not too hard to follow.
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#1206114 - 01/10/03 04:39 AM (21 years, 23 days ago) |
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it is not that _island_ is creepy; shucks, i wish i could live there... it's just that there are some rather creepy folk (well, the rani & of course the colonel... & maybe ol' joe aldehyde...) that we meet within the novel...
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Re: Creepy Books [Re: gnrm23] 1
#1208483 - 01/11/03 04:41 AM (21 years, 22 days ago) |
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try some h.p. lovecraft also.
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#1213173 - 01/13/03 12:17 AM (21 years, 20 days ago) |
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how could i have forgotten lovecraft? wierd tales, indeed... rudyard kipling has some odd tales... then there's always ILLUMINATUS! (shea & wilson) colin wilson's _the mind parasites_
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Re: Creepy Books [Re: Anonymous] 1
#1214626 - 01/13/03 12:11 PM (21 years, 19 days ago) |
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Actually,stephen king is quite good at describing mans darker nature.
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Re: Creepy Books [Re: Anonymous] 1
#4844029 - 10/23/05 11:41 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Maybe check out:
George Orwell : 1984
Definitely a good read
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saw an earlier poster mention philip k. dick. after seeing blade runner enough times i just finally got around to reading 'do androids dream of electric sheep?'. it delves into questioning reality quite a bit and reminds me a bit of arthur c. clarke's '2001: a space odyssey' in questioning exactly what makes us conscious.
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Re: Creepy Books [Re: Anonymous] 1
#4845208 - 10/24/05 10:48 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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I 3rd the recommendation of HP Lovecraft, no one like him. Check him out right now!
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