Clark Ashton Smith was a friend of Lovecraft, and wrote quite a lot using his material and vice versa. I recommend the Charnel God to really showcase him. Its more fantasy for sure. If you like it, there is also Thomas Ligotti, a modern comtempory that has quite a few shorts.isersa
Hiya it’s so nice to see & hear you again! Your fall TBR is looking splendid! I’m also hoping to read “Hangsaman” by Shirley Jackson this month! I’m also thinking of rereading “The Haunting of Hill House” this fall maybe? I read it 3/4 years ago & I didn’t enjoy it that much back then. However my reading taste has changed a lot, I noticed that I’ve grown to like gothic horror a lot more. I recently read “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” which I really liked, so I definitely want to give “The Haunting of Hill House” a second chance at some point. (Also a Shirley Jackson inspired tattoo sounds awesome!) I’m also planning to read “Ghost Story” by Peter Straub, but I’ll probably save that for the end of November or December. The rest of my fall TBR exists out of: “Rebbeca” by Daphne du Maurier, “The Wasp Factory” by Iain Banks, “In the Dream House” by Carmen Maria Machado, “The Year of the Witching” by Alexis Henderson, “Edgar Allan Poe: Illustrated Tales” by … Edgar Allan Poe (I know shocking right), “Salem’s lot” by Stephen King, “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie & that’s it for now. I’ll hopefully read even more books this fall, but I don’t want to add too many books to my TBR, since I tend to read books that aren’t on immediate TBR :/ Hope u get around to all your reading, I’m definitely curious to hear your thoughts on the books you’re planning to read! Excited to see what your next video(s) will be & finally I want to wish u some more good luck with your job & promotion!! 🍂 🌰 🎃
I was just thinking the other day that we were due an Autumn TBR from you girl, as this is your PEAK time and look at me being blessed in my sub box! So glad to have you back :) Uncle Silas, what a throwback to my Victorian Lit course at uni! I remember quite liking it, but I don't remember a lot of the details about it. Carmilla is a great read though for sure, and super short! I never got on with Elizabeth Gaskell prior, but Gothic Tales was actually quite a decent collection so I hope you enjoy it :) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a great book, I really hope you enjoy it! I've had pretty decent luck with the Bronte's overall over the years, although I think Charlotte will always be my favourite. Interested to hear your thoughts on Ghost Story by Peter Straub, I know nothing about it and only really know his name because he co-wrote books with King I think, so intrigued! :) Love the sweater btw, so seasonal! I'm going to be reading: - Ring by Koji Suzuki - Four Past Midnight by Stephen King - The Troop by Nick Cutter - The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr - Ghost Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics short story collection) At least this is the plan! Apologies for this excessively long comment, I guess I just love Autumn TBRs lol
Nice TBR there, i'm trying to read more than i can, in the process of The Shining, some thrillers, House of Leaves (you've reviewed this and suggested to not be diverted but i can't just focus on it alone), some Karin Slaughter, a Jim Thompson noir, Matthew Stokoe's infamous Cows, and then the following hopefully begun and completed before winter weather conditions: Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk Tender is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica The Secret of Ventriloquism - Jon Padgett Birdman - Mo Hayder a couple another TH-camr suggested for those who can handle Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door, their titles are Survivor and Shackled. And then a couple other famous disturbing ones American Psycho and Selby Jr.'s The Room. I recall enjoying an old video of yours reviewing that. :)
I hope you love these reads! I'm currently reading Wuthering Heights for the first time, also hoping to pick up Rebecca, the Virago book of Witches and the sabrina trilogy, to name but a few! Hoping I can get as much as my tbr read as possible!
There's a BEAUTIFUL edition of Carmilla by Le Fanu published by Pushkin Press when you're ready to read that. I had to order it on book depository so I could have it sent to the US.
@@RGsDevilship yes! The one I have is hardback and the cover has some beautiful red metallic inlay on the dust jacket. I’ve watched your videos for years so I’m confident that you’d enjoy the story, even if just for the history of the vampire as a literary device. I’d totally recommend getting that edition. I’ve read Carmilla three times and that edition has been my favorite in overall experience
Really enjoyed hearing about all the books that you're planning to read and it's lovely to see you back! I definitely want to try Anne Bronte too. So looking forward to hearing your thoughts on that one ☺
I'm still getting the hang of how short to keep my comments, I'm used to writing huge things. This may not be Twitter length. But let's see. First off, Clark Ashton Smith comes by his Lovecraft comparison honestly. The two were friends, and actually used each other's creations in their own works. Lovecraft had a number of friends who swapped elements with him, including Robert E. Howard and Robert Bloch. (There are more, can't remember them off the top of my head.) Ghost Story isn't at all like anything cultish, but it's great. It's a mystery but really horrific. Shirley Jackson kicks ass. You mentioned two recent film adaptations of "The Haunting of Hill House". I don't know if you've seen the 1963 adaptation, "The Haunting". It's not only a really good adaptation, but it's easily in my top 10 movies, horror or otherwise. "I Am Legend" is a masterpiece. The only adaptation for film that's worth a damn is, once again, the first. That's "The Last Man on Earth", with Vincent Price. It varies from the book, like most adaptations, but it's the closest. It's also the scariest. Once again, no gore, but wow. You can really see how George Romero got his zombie ideas from this. If I'm mixing up elements from a few of your videos, I apologize. I just discovered your channel last night and watched a few of the posts. Really a good channel. I think it's great that you take notes on what you read. I don't know if you do it all the time, but that you do it at all is impressive. Nice that you're a Junji Ito fan, and that you also think of him as a writer (which of course he is, but to a lot of people "it's just a comic book", and they don't get it or put it on a level with a novel or a short story. I think that's a mistake. I'll keep an eye out for your "Tomie" review. I read "Uzumaki" first, and didn't see how he could come up with anything else that good. The jacket blurb for Tomie didn't fill me with hope. I just kept thinking of all the cliche' places it could go. I forgot who I was dealing with! Tomie not only matched Uzumaki for me, in some ways I found it better. I know the episodic quality can put people off, but the character Tomie is so horrible and fascinatingly destructive, it carries the whole thing for me like a good series of short stories, or an engrossing tv show. I'm sure there's more I wanted to comment on, but it's not coming to me now. I didn't succeed in keeping it short, hope that's not too much of a problem. Some recommendations: Any of Richard Matheson's short story collections. He's a master of the format. A number of these stories were made into Twilight Zone episodes, and some into movies. A lot of his books were made into movies too, but you probably already know that. M.R. James: Collected Ghost Stories. I know you mentioned you weren't much into ghost stories, but these are in a class of their own. These are far from just ghost stories. I think they're top tier for horror fiction, especially the older stuff. I saw a few Philip K. Dick books in the stack behind you in the posts. You mentioned alien invasion stories. I think one of the scariest and most memorable stories of that type is Dick's "The Hanging Stranger". I saw someone suggest Algernon Blackwood, I second that. Great stuff, and the stories recommended were excellent too. I'm trying to think of more, but this is probably not the post for it!
I'm planning to read "The Haunting of Hill House" and re-read "The October Country" by Bradbury. I'm sorry to say that I read Ghost Story last month and I really didn't like it, I felt like it dragged on and on. Looking forward to hearing what you think about it!
Hope you enjoy Hill House, I love the atmosphere of that book. Sorry to hear about Ghost Story, I was surprised it's such a long novel so I understand your view on it.
You sure are "Slowly but Shirley" getting through your hauls 😏 But it's great to see you pop back up in my sub box again.♥️ Funny you mentioned LOTR cause this video is return of the queen 👑
Really good video, lots of great books. Just saying..I put off the Tennant of Wildfell Hall for years..then read it and loved it. So just giving it one big vote
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall is about a woman who divorces her abusive husband and earns a living as an artist. And it happens at a time where divorce was a very taboo subject and unheard of. She faces prejudice from people in the village. The book itself shocked people because it was way ahead of its time.
You have some great sounding books there. I'm curious about Uncle Silas, I'll wait to see what you think. I haven't read Anne Bronte, but I've always heard that books is really good. You look gorgeous as always, the piercing looks good on you.
I'm still getting through Uncle Silas, I haven't had much down time to read in the last week. Thank you so much, I've wanted to get it pierced again for ages 😁
If you are interested there is a pretty cool looking book coming out later this month called "Shadow Voices: 300 years of Irish Genre Fiction" edited by John Connolly
I’m reading Charlotte Bronte novel Shirley having read Jane Eyre which is an absolute classic. Charlotte Bronte refused to allow The Tenants Anne Bronte novel to be republished after her death, I’m not sure why? The Tenants novel though was very popular when it was first published.
the blind owl, by sadegh hedayat; the short stories of algernon blackwood(specifically, the wendigo, and also, the willows); the short fiction of eta hoffman; and guy de maupassant. the novel, concrete island by jg ballard, terrified me when i read it, and its themes still unnerve me.
These sound like interesting reads. I hope you enjoy them. 😉 I'm finishing The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. I plan on reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, a bunch of Edgar Allen Poe short stories, and Cast a Cold Eye by Alan Ryan. This last one sounded like a ghost story set over in Ireland.
Thank you and I hope you enjoy your reads too, you've got a lot to look forward to with Wilde, Shelley and Poe. Cast a Cold Eye sounds interesting though, hadn't heard of it before!
Awesome to see you back!! Sorry if you covered this in a previous video but did you ever re-read "Something Wicked This Way Comes" because I think I remember you saying you hated it and I read it and had the same reaction but so many people claim it is a masterpiece...
I'm glad to know I'm not alone there! I actually recently bought a second hand copy of it since I had gotten rid of my copy years ago so I'll try to reread it soon because I honestly don't think I was fair on it at the time. I think I just didn't like it because I thought it was going to be something it wasn't.
I personally loved Anne's books, they all have very obvious religious themes, but I don't think its possible 'preachyness' ruined the story, just a little different than what you get from Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights in terms of tone
All of Peter Straub's early books, are long, slow-burn types, seemingly influenced by an English short story writer of the supernatural named Robert Aickman - who's work is also well worth seeking out. Straub relies on enigmatic plots that rely on an accumulation of detail to create dramatic atmosphere - kind of like a Gothic novel - I've always liked his supernatural books, but it wouldn't surprise me if Ghost Story's subtle tone puts off many modern day readers who are used to quicker reads. Shadowland is probably Straub's most accessible & entertaining novel, & it's a good place to try out his work. Clarke Ashton Smith was a horror/fantasy short story writer who had an impressive imagination - with a more poetic & descriptive touch than his main influence - H.P. Lovecraft.
I'm finally getting back into reading thanks to #Victober. At the moment I'm reading The Black Monk, which is a penny dreadful from 1844. Typical of me, I suppose, to break a reading slump with a 600+ page book, but it's fun so far (about halfway through it now). Uncle Silas is possibly going to be on the list this month for me, haven't decided, but it is a book I really should've read ages ago. Carmilla is indeed well-regarded but I don't think it's actually the best story in that collection (Through a Glass Darkly) it appears in. That Gaskell book is part of the Victober schedule this year, but not sure if I'll get to it. SO pleased to see Clark Ashton Smith there. The Lovecraft comparison is... not wrong as such, cos Lovecraft pretty much got him writing fiction in the first place, and Smith and Lovecraft plus Robert E. Howard were considered the Big Three of Weird Tales magazine, they were all fanboys for each other. But there's enough differences between CAS and HPL that the comparison isn't 100% valid; Smith would do things Lovecraft simply wouldn't have considered. Much better poet too (fascinated to see that particular edition has a goodly selection of Smith's verse).
I have a horror book-related recommendation: Alan Wake Remastered. In case you haven't played (or heard of) it before, I envy you for the opportunity to experience it for the first time. It's that good and you're welcome. 🙂 If you want to check it out, look for gameplay footage and not the trailer or synopsis, because they've got spoilers in them for some reason. I think you'll love it and maybe it will inspire you to dust off the cobwebs from your other channel. 🎃
Thanks for the recommendation! Yeah I've heard of it and knew it was coming to PS4 this month so I'll have to get it at some point because it sounds like something I'd love. I've got some solid video ideas for the second channel, just haven't had time to film for it. But I've been buying games like crazy and picked up a few more consoles recently so I should really do an update or something 😅
Clark Ashton Smith was a friend of Lovecraft, and wrote quite a lot using his material and vice versa. I recommend the Charnel God to really showcase him. Its more fantasy for sure. If you like it, there is also Thomas Ligotti, a modern comtempory that has quite a few shorts.isersa
Hiya it’s so nice to see & hear you again! Your fall TBR is looking splendid! I’m also hoping to read “Hangsaman” by Shirley Jackson this month! I’m also thinking of rereading “The Haunting of Hill House” this fall maybe? I read it 3/4 years ago & I didn’t enjoy it that much back then. However my reading taste has changed a lot, I noticed that I’ve grown to like gothic horror a lot more. I recently read “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” which I really liked, so I definitely want to give “The Haunting of Hill House” a second chance at some point. (Also a Shirley Jackson inspired tattoo sounds awesome!) I’m also planning to read “Ghost Story” by Peter Straub, but I’ll probably save that for the end of November or December. The rest of my fall TBR exists out of: “Rebbeca” by Daphne du Maurier, “The Wasp Factory” by Iain Banks, “In the Dream House” by Carmen Maria Machado, “The Year of the Witching” by Alexis Henderson, “Edgar Allan Poe: Illustrated Tales” by … Edgar Allan Poe (I know shocking right), “Salem’s lot” by Stephen King, “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie & that’s it for now. I’ll hopefully read even more books this fall, but I don’t want to add too many books to my TBR, since I tend to read books that aren’t on immediate TBR :/ Hope u get around to all your reading, I’m definitely curious to hear your thoughts on the books you’re planning to read! Excited to see what your next video(s) will be & finally I want to wish u some more good luck with your job & promotion!! 🍂 🌰 🎃
I just discovered your channel threw The Shades Of Orange Channel I enjoy your videos! I love your gothic recommendations!
I was just thinking the other day that we were due an Autumn TBR from you girl, as this is your PEAK time and look at me being blessed in my sub box! So glad to have you back :)
Uncle Silas, what a throwback to my Victorian Lit course at uni! I remember quite liking it, but I don't remember a lot of the details about it. Carmilla is a great read though for sure, and super short!
I never got on with Elizabeth Gaskell prior, but Gothic Tales was actually quite a decent collection so I hope you enjoy it :)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a great book, I really hope you enjoy it! I've had pretty decent luck with the Bronte's overall over the years, although I think Charlotte will always be my favourite.
Interested to hear your thoughts on Ghost Story by Peter Straub, I know nothing about it and only really know his name because he co-wrote books with King I think, so intrigued! :)
Love the sweater btw, so seasonal!
I'm going to be reading:
- Ring by Koji Suzuki
- Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
- The Troop by Nick Cutter
- The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr
- Ghost Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics short story collection)
At least this is the plan!
Apologies for this excessively long comment, I guess I just love Autumn TBRs lol
Nice TBR there, i'm trying to read more than i can, in the process of The Shining, some thrillers, House of Leaves (you've reviewed this and suggested to not be diverted but i can't just focus on it alone), some Karin Slaughter, a Jim Thompson noir, Matthew Stokoe's infamous Cows, and then the following hopefully begun and completed before winter weather conditions:
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
Tender is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica
The Secret of Ventriloquism - Jon Padgett
Birdman - Mo Hayder
a couple another TH-camr suggested for those who can handle Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door, their titles are Survivor and Shackled. And then a couple other famous disturbing ones American Psycho and Selby Jr.'s The Room. I recall enjoying an old video of yours reviewing that. :)
Haunted is great and I recommend She Wakes by Jack Ketchum.
I hope you love these reads! I'm currently reading Wuthering Heights for the first time, also hoping to pick up Rebecca, the Virago book of Witches and the sabrina trilogy, to name but a few! Hoping I can get as much as my tbr read as possible!
Hope you're enjoying Wuthering Heights! Also it's such a perfect time of year to read Rebecca. Best of luck with all your books!
@@RGsDevilship thank you so much! Ended up loving Wuthering Heights!!
The Anne Bronte Tenant Of Wildfell Hall I read during lockdown, and I enjoyed it. And I hope you will too.
There's a BEAUTIFUL edition of Carmilla by Le Fanu published by Pushkin Press when you're ready to read that. I had to order it on book depository so I could have it sent to the US.
The hardback one!? Honestly, what's been holding me back is that I have no idea which edition would be the best version to get
@@RGsDevilship yes! The one I have is hardback and the cover has some beautiful red metallic inlay on the dust jacket. I’ve watched your videos for years so I’m confident that you’d enjoy the story, even if just for the history of the vampire as a literary device. I’d totally recommend getting that edition.
I’ve read Carmilla three times and that edition has been my favorite in overall experience
Really enjoyed hearing about all the books that you're planning to read and it's lovely to see you back! I definitely want to try Anne Bronte too. So looking forward to hearing your thoughts on that one ☺
Hangsaman is great. It's not strictly supernatural, but it's definitely gothic.
Ah I thought it would be a more straight forward tale but if it's gothic then I'm reading it next 😊
I loved Tenant of Wildfell Hall! I'm going to reread House of Leaves this month and I'm just finishing off In Cold Blood.
Best of luck with House of Leaves!
I'm still getting the hang of how short to keep my comments, I'm used to writing huge things. This may not be Twitter length. But let's see.
First off, Clark Ashton Smith comes by his Lovecraft comparison honestly. The two were friends, and actually used each other's creations in their own works. Lovecraft had a number of friends who swapped elements with him, including Robert E. Howard and Robert Bloch. (There are more, can't remember them off the top of my head.)
Ghost Story isn't at all like anything cultish, but it's great. It's a mystery but really horrific.
Shirley Jackson kicks ass. You mentioned two recent film adaptations of "The Haunting of Hill House". I don't know if you've seen the 1963 adaptation, "The Haunting". It's not only a really good adaptation, but it's easily in my top 10 movies, horror or otherwise.
"I Am Legend" is a masterpiece. The only adaptation for film that's worth a damn is, once again, the first. That's "The Last Man on Earth", with Vincent Price. It varies from the book, like most adaptations, but it's the closest. It's also the scariest. Once again, no gore, but wow. You can really see how George Romero got his zombie ideas from this.
If I'm mixing up elements from a few of your videos, I apologize. I just discovered your channel last night and watched a few of the posts. Really a good channel. I think it's great that you take notes on what you read. I don't know if you do it all the time, but that you do it at all is impressive.
Nice that you're a Junji Ito fan, and that you also think of him as a writer (which of course he is, but to a lot of people "it's just a comic book", and they don't get it or put it on a level with a novel or a short story. I think that's a mistake. I'll keep an eye out for your "Tomie" review. I read "Uzumaki" first, and didn't see how he could come up with anything else that good. The jacket blurb for Tomie didn't fill me with hope. I just kept thinking of all the cliche' places it could go. I forgot who I was dealing with! Tomie not only matched Uzumaki for me, in some ways I found it better. I know the episodic quality can put people off, but the character Tomie is so horrible and fascinatingly destructive, it carries the whole thing for me like a good series of short stories, or an engrossing tv show.
I'm sure there's more I wanted to comment on, but it's not coming to me now. I didn't succeed in keeping it short, hope that's not too much of a problem.
Some recommendations:
Any of Richard Matheson's short story collections. He's a master of the format. A number of these stories were made into Twilight Zone episodes, and some into movies. A lot of his books were made into movies too, but you probably already know that.
M.R. James: Collected Ghost Stories. I know you mentioned you weren't much into ghost stories, but these are in a class of their own. These are far from just ghost stories. I think they're top tier for horror fiction, especially the older stuff.
I saw a few Philip K. Dick books in the stack behind you in the posts. You mentioned alien invasion stories. I think one of the scariest and most memorable stories of that type is Dick's "The Hanging Stranger".
I saw someone suggest Algernon Blackwood, I second that. Great stuff, and the stories recommended were excellent too.
I'm trying to think of more, but this is probably not the post for it!
I'm planning to read "The Haunting of Hill House" and re-read "The October Country" by Bradbury. I'm sorry to say that I read Ghost Story last month and I really didn't like it, I felt like it dragged on and on. Looking forward to hearing what you think about it!
Hope you enjoy Hill House, I love the atmosphere of that book. Sorry to hear about Ghost Story, I was surprised it's such a long novel so I understand your view on it.
I love this list! I haven't read Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson yet.
Ah thank you, I plan to start Hangsaman this week
Hangsaman is one of my all time favorite novels.
@@RGsDevilship Happy reading!
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was so well done and way ahead of its time. I can’t imagine you not liking it.
You sure are "Slowly but Shirley" getting through your hauls 😏 But it's great to see you pop back up in my sub box again.♥️
Funny you mentioned LOTR cause this video is return of the queen 👑
That's true 👸🤣
Really good video, lots of great books. Just saying..I put off the Tennant of Wildfell Hall for years..then read it and loved it. So just giving it one big vote
Great! Thank you for your vote 😊
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall is about a woman who divorces her abusive husband and earns a living as an artist. And it happens at a time where divorce was a very taboo subject and unheard of. She faces prejudice from people in the village. The book itself shocked people because it was way ahead of its time.
So nice to see you return! You have chosen interesting books to read. I hope you will enjoy them and I can't wait for your next video :)
Thank you so much, I hope you'll get some positive reviews for these books when I'm done with them 😅
Do you have an Amazon Wish List? 🙂
You have some great sounding books there. I'm curious about Uncle Silas, I'll wait to see what you think. I haven't read Anne Bronte, but I've always heard that books is really good. You look gorgeous as always, the piercing looks good on you.
I'm still getting through Uncle Silas, I haven't had much down time to read in the last week. Thank you so much, I've wanted to get it pierced again for ages 😁
Love your TBR videos. So glad to see you back! 🙋🏻♀️👻
Thank you love!
I'm a huge J Sheridan Le Fanu fan! I haven't tackled Uncle Silas yet but I'm hoping to read it soon.
I'm just happy to be reading a new to me Irish author 😅
There's something enchanting about you.
If you are interested there is a pretty cool looking book coming out later this month called "Shadow Voices: 300 years of Irish Genre Fiction" edited by John Connolly
I’m reading Charlotte Bronte novel Shirley having read Jane Eyre which is an absolute classic. Charlotte Bronte refused to allow The Tenants Anne Bronte novel to be republished after her death, I’m not sure why? The Tenants novel though was very popular when it was first published.
the blind owl, by sadegh hedayat; the short stories of algernon blackwood(specifically, the wendigo, and also, the willows); the short fiction of eta hoffman; and guy de maupassant. the novel, concrete island by jg ballard, terrified me when i read it, and its themes still unnerve me.
The Blind Owl is insane!
So happy to get this notification 👻👻👻👻
Happy spooky season hun! 🎃
@@RGsDevilship You too lovely 👻🖤 You look great, love the cosy jumper, giving very cosy Halloween vibes 🎃
Slowly but Shirley 🤣 speaking of Shirley Jackson. I have read The haunted of Hill House, what do you recommend me to read by her next 👻
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a good one to go with 😊
These sound like interesting reads. I hope you enjoy them. 😉
I'm finishing The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. I plan on reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, a bunch of Edgar Allen Poe short stories, and Cast a Cold Eye by Alan Ryan. This last one sounded like a ghost story set over in Ireland.
Thank you and I hope you enjoy your reads too, you've got a lot to look forward to with Wilde, Shelley and Poe. Cast a Cold Eye sounds interesting though, hadn't heard of it before!
You have good taste. I read Cast a Cold Eye. Check out A Being Otherwise and The Loney.
Awesome to see you back!! Sorry if you covered this in a previous video but did you ever re-read "Something Wicked This Way Comes" because I think I remember you saying you hated it and I read it and had the same reaction but so many people claim it is a masterpiece...
I'm glad to know I'm not alone there! I actually recently bought a second hand copy of it since I had gotten rid of my copy years ago so I'll try to reread it soon because I honestly don't think I was fair on it at the time. I think I just didn't like it because I thought it was going to be something it wasn't.
@@RGsDevilship That's cool, looking forward to hearing your thoughts when/if you give it another chance :).
I personally loved Anne's books, they all have very obvious religious themes, but I don't think its possible 'preachyness' ruined the story, just a little different than what you get from Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights in terms of tone
Thank you for your insight 😊
Excellent fall reads! Thanks for the heads up! Or heads off? Heh. 😅
All of Peter Straub's early books, are long, slow-burn types, seemingly influenced by an English short story writer of the supernatural named Robert Aickman - who's work is also well worth seeking out.
Straub relies on enigmatic plots that rely on an accumulation of detail to create dramatic atmosphere - kind of like a Gothic novel - I've always liked his supernatural books, but it wouldn't surprise me if Ghost Story's subtle tone puts off many modern day readers who are used to quicker reads.
Shadowland is probably Straub's most accessible & entertaining novel, & it's a good place to try out his work.
Clarke Ashton Smith was a horror/fantasy short story writer who had an impressive imagination - with a more poetic & descriptive touch than his main influence - H.P. Lovecraft.
This is just what I needed!
Happy to help 💜
Such good recommendations! 💖
Thank you! 💜
I'm finally getting back into reading thanks to #Victober. At the moment I'm reading The Black Monk, which is a penny dreadful from 1844. Typical of me, I suppose, to break a reading slump with a 600+ page book, but it's fun so far (about halfway through it now). Uncle Silas is possibly going to be on the list this month for me, haven't decided, but it is a book I really should've read ages ago. Carmilla is indeed well-regarded but I don't think it's actually the best story in that collection (Through a Glass Darkly) it appears in. That Gaskell book is part of the Victober schedule this year, but not sure if I'll get to it.
SO pleased to see Clark Ashton Smith there. The Lovecraft comparison is... not wrong as such, cos Lovecraft pretty much got him writing fiction in the first place, and Smith and Lovecraft plus Robert E. Howard were considered the Big Three of Weird Tales magazine, they were all fanboys for each other. But there's enough differences between CAS and HPL that the comparison isn't 100% valid; Smith would do things Lovecraft simply wouldn't have considered. Much better poet too (fascinated to see that particular edition has a goodly selection of Smith's verse).
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is amazing. Whoever said it was trash can fight me in the comments 😂
oh hello. It's nice to see you again.
Yeah it's been quite some time 😅
She's so fiiiine ☺
Eres hermosa 🌹🥺❤️
I have a horror book-related recommendation: Alan Wake Remastered. In case you haven't played (or heard of) it before, I envy you for the opportunity to experience it for the first time. It's that good and you're welcome. 🙂 If you want to check it out, look for gameplay footage and not the trailer or synopsis, because they've got spoilers in them for some reason. I think you'll love it and maybe it will inspire you to dust off the cobwebs from your other channel. 🎃
Thanks for the recommendation! Yeah I've heard of it and knew it was coming to PS4 this month so I'll have to get it at some point because it sounds like something I'd love. I've got some solid video ideas for the second channel, just haven't had time to film for it. But I've been buying games like crazy and picked up a few more consoles recently so I should really do an update or something 😅