(Part 2) Top products from r/WeirdLit

"The Willows" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" are among my favorite horror short stories of all time. I have mixed feelings about "Summer People." I really liked the story up until the end. I'm still not sure how I feel about the ending. I'll probably reread it though.

Regarding Annihilation, my judgement is probably clouded because I'm a huge VanderMeer fan but I loved it. I read it in like 3 hours. I feel like it may not appeal much to fans of his Ambergris stuff though. I don't want to say to much about it because that would spoil it but don't go in with high expectations and you won't be disappointed. Just enjoy it. I'm definitely planning on reading the rest of the series. Also, he and his wife have another anthology out this month which I am excited for.

Not sure if you're interested in self-published work, but you might dig my book Corruption. It's a horror/portal fantasy set in Eastern Europe with giant lice, sexual curses, vodka-guzzling wights, and a solar apocalypse. If that sounds up your alley, give it a shot! If not, then I'd say start with the classics - you really cannot go wrong with The Master and Margarita.

Edit: found a typo and thought of another one - Gene Wolfe's The Land Across was great, too, albeit not an easy read.

Pretty sure this has them all. If not, it has at least 1100 pages of them!

Loved both Hardy's film and the (much more fully developed and even weirder) book co-written with Anthony Shaffer.

https://www.amazon.com/Wicker-Man-Novel-Robin-Hardy/dp/0307382761/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1467555959&sr=8-2&keywords=robin+hardy+wicker+man+book

Congratulations!!!!!!!!

If you want to push some weird fiction onto your child, I highly recommend The Girl In the Castle Inside the Museum.

Found this (kindle only) and this (kindle and paperback) on Amazon too. Don't actually know for sure if it's all of them, but worth a look.

In this week's episode, in honor of Clark Ashton Smith's birthday (January 13, 1893), I'll be discussing "The Dark Eidolon." It first appeared in the January 1935 issue of Weird Tales, and is probably the Zothique story that carries the most name recognition.

It tells of Namirrha, a powerful sorcerer who returns to his home city in order to exact revenge on its ruler for a boyhood transgression.

Links:

Read "The Dark Eidolon" on the Eldritch Dark: http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/212/the-dark-eidolon

Purchase The Dark Eidolon and Other Stores: http://www.amazon.com/Eidolon-Other-Fantasies-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143107380/

Purchase The Maze of the Enchanter: http://www.amazon.com/Enchanter-Collected-Fantasies-Clark-Ashton/dp/1597800317/

Purchase Tales of Zothique (Necronomicon Press): http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Zothique-Clark-Ashton-Smith/dp/0940884712 | http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=Tales+of+Zothique

Clark Ashton Smith at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith

The Eldritch Dark Website: http://www.eldritchdark.com/

The Double Shadow Podcast: http://thedoubleshadow.com/

Worth noting that R.L. Stein himself has done adult horror fiction as well outside of the YA and teen stuff, it's pretty hit or miss for me personally though.

I'm planning on giving this collection he was the editor for a chance next since he's not the author and wanna see if it's suitable for my younger cousin who is slowly getting more into reading and horror, so may be up your alley. https://www.amazon.com/Fear-13-Stories-Suspense-Horror/dp/0142417742/

Along these same lines, if you guys haven't read The Ballad of Black Tom, I strongly suggest it. Stylish Lovecraftian horror, black protagonist, racial tensions amidst the horror (though not at all overwhelming or "agenda-driven"). I really enjoyed it.

Has anyone read Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt? I'm trying to find out if it's actually weird fiction or not before I try it out. It's apparently about a witch that haunts a town, and the town is under tight surveillance by the town elders. Which automatically makes me think there's going to be a "The Village" type twist where we find out the witch is actually just a legend concocted by the town leaders. If that's the case, I'm not interested in reading it. But if there's actually a witch, I do. Problem is, I can't seem to find out anywhere which one it is...

For a disturbing book in this category, strongly recommend "Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials," by Reza Negarestani. Here's an accurate description from the Amazon page.

"At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samizdat and a philosophic grimoire, CYCLONOPEDIA is work of theory-fiction on the Middle East, where horror is restlessly heaped upon horror. Reza Negarestani bridges the appalling vistas of contemporary world politics and the War on Terror with the archeologies of the Middle East and the natural history of the Earth itself. CYCLONOPEDIA is a middle-eastern Odyssey, populated by archeologists, jihadis, oil smugglers, Delta Force officers, heresiarchs, corpses of ancient gods and other puppets. The journey to the Underworld begins with petroleum basins and the rotting Sun, continuing along the tentacled pipelines of oil, and at last unfolding in the desert, where monotheism meets the Earth's tarry dreams of insurrection against the Sun."

https://www.amazon.com/Cyclonopedia-Complicity-Materials-Reza-Negarestani/dp/0980544009

Also recommend "The Blind Owl," a hallucinatory, obsessive work by Sadegh Hedayat, who has been compared to Kafka and Poe. This book has a reputation for causing a long string of suicides in Iran.

https://therumpus.net/2010/10/why-i-love-sadegh-hedayats-the-blind-owl/

https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Owl-Sadegh-Hedayat/dp/0802144284/ref=pd_sbs_14_1/140-3581013-0381039?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0802144284&pd_rd_r=21abba04-d69b-4243-9c98-030a35922a88&pd_rd_w=iDUA3&pd_rd_wg=ibs7X&pf_rd_p=5873ae95-9063-4a23-9b7e-eafa738c2269&pf_rd_r=R38WY8Y8RJP5HXC43WBF&psc=1&refRID=R38WY8Y8RJP5HXC43WBF

Great list. I have read most of these. A few random thoughts.

Solomon Kane is a bit pulpy. For a horror list I would probably replace it with The Horror Stories of Robert E Howard.

The Terror was very well written (I read it in 2 days) but a bit disappointing in that everything was explained, otherwise it could have been a great weird tale. Did you watch The Terror television series?

Thomas Ligotti is truly terrifying and weird.

I avoid ghost stories since I find them boring, neither weird nor scary. Every single Gothic story is about murder or undead.