(Part 2) Top products from r/horrorlit

I'm a big fan of Klein. Just wish he was more prolific and that it was available on Kindle.

If you don't want to invest in a book you're not sure you'll like, you might try "The Events at Poroth Farm". If you like that, you'll probably enjoy the ceremonies. It's available in this collection, which is a pretty good buy at 55¢!

The Breaker series, best self published thing I've ever read. Huge number of positive reviews, this is no hobbyist, this guy has chops.

Year's Best Body Horror of 2017. Some great great stories.

https://www.amazon.com/Years-Best-Body-Horror-Anthology-ebook/dp/B075KXRTCS

Hey there, the best anthology I've found is Halloween it's an anthology with Ray Bradbury, Peter Straub and many others. A lot of variety.

i09 has a list of good anthologies they tend to lead more toward scifi but the collections look good. If I find more I'll post or edit them in.

The only thing I've read from Braunbeck is his short story Tessellations that was printed in a collection of Halloween stories. It was one of the best stories in the collection and I've been meaning to seek out more of his work. Thanks for the recommendation.

I should probably give you some recs but Im at work right now...what I will say is check out Sea of Rust. Comes out Sept 5th and sounds awesome. Joe Hill raved about it a while back.

https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Rust-C-Robert-Cargill/dp/0062405837/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502667645&sr=8-1&keywords=sea+of+rust

THINKING HORROR and THINKING HORROR vol. 2 are two great and recent collections of great nonfiction essays and interviews. Highly recommended.

Infected by Scott Sigler was excellent.

It is on Amazon. It's like 7.00 bucks, I looked it up right away. I am thinking of getting it in case the price goes up.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FZSCUKO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

The Monster Show was interesting and so was On Monsters.

I just finished this anthology, if you enjoy short fiction. I'm always looking for body horror. It's my favorite sub-genre.

Year's Best Body Horror 2017 Anthology https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075KXRTCS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_j0H-AbGANMM50

Thinking Horror, Vol. 2 just came out and might be of interest (disclaimer: i have an essay in it). Really enjoyed volume 1 and looking forward to reading the rest of 2. link

Thinking Horror is worth checking out!!!

Sure do. 99 cents! https://www.amazon.com/Cthulhu-Mythos-MEGAPACK-Classic-Lovecraftian-ebook/dp/B007V8RQC4

Oral histories on tragic events can make you lose sleep for sure:

Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Gulag Voices: Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile

And I will never forget the Sand Creek Massacre part of Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee.

A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore.

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>Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death.

>It's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's gotta do it.

If you're looking for Lovecraftian themes, I just finished [Agents of Dreamland](Agents of Dreamland https://www.amazon.com/dp/0765394324/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_hZFNAbEX6ABC8). Pretty short but really well-written.

For strictly horror, the most recent that I've read is [A Head Full of Ghosts](A Head Full of Ghosts: A Novel https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062363247/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_e1FNAbNNG9C04). Word is that it's being made into movie.

For something that's a good mix of Lovecraftian vibes and horror, though it's a bit more open-ended, is [The Southern Reach](The Southern Reach Trilogy https://www.amazon.com/dp/0008286639/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_u2FNAb5PVQQ2V) trilogy. It's the one from which recent movie Annihilation was based.

Hopefully this was helpful.

I found it on my Kindle. Michael S. Nuckols is the author.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IQ3094A

The Troop by Nick Cutter

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

Black Hole by Charles Burn

$6.99 on Kindle.

http://www.amazon.com/Splatterpunks-Extreme-Paul-M-Sammon/dp/0312045816

The second one is simply called Splatterpunks II

https://www.amazon.com/Missing-Sarah-Langan/dp/0060872918

Krampus: The Yule Lord by Brom:

https://www.amazon.com/Krampus-Yule-Lord-Brom-ebook/dp/B007JLK8TQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1543404606&sr=1-1&keywords=Krampus

I haven't actually read this book, but I did read Lost Gods by him and it was amazing (one of my favorite books.) I can't imagine Krampus would be bad, especially considering the ratings. I plan on reading it myself when I'm finished with the one I'm reading now.

Lost Gods (in case you're interested): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062095684/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2

It's hard to beat M.R. James, if for no other reason than he was prolific and really had a knack for the subject matter.

Also, if you want a good sampler of classic ghost stories, try The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories. Lots of big names (Dickens, Kipling, Wharton, etc) as well as lesser-known authors of the time.

Sorry, had a brain cramp and confused it with Robinson's The Breaker series, of which I'm also waiting for the next volume.

Ah, creature features. Stephen King has a few fun ones tucked into in short story anthologies. Nightmares and Dreamscapes comes to mind. The Troop is sort of creature-y. Not really b-movie, but close. For that 'childhood summer of fighting monsters' feel, there's also Summer of Night.

I know we're in horror lit, but you should also check out Slither, Feast, and The Bay.

The Winter Calf tells the story of a mountain recluse who is rumored to be a witch - and to have drowned her five-year old son. 30 years later, she casts a spell that brings two boys and a blizzard to her door. One boy wants to be a farmer like his father; the other is abused and prefers to murder his father.

I thought this subreddit might appreciate this. It’s a collection of my ten most popular Reddit stories. The collection includes several r/nosleep and r/WritingPrompts stories. One of them, “Say Uncle,” was featured on the Best of Nosleep subreddit last year.

I’ve written a bunch of fantasy and sci-fi stories too, but the horror stuff seems to be the most popular.

Below is the book title and description.

Horrible Writing: 10 Horror Stories You Probably Shouldn’t Read

These 10 horror stories were originally posted online under a pseudonym. Some of them have taken on a life of their own. Cumulatively the stories written under this name have been read by tens—possibly hundreds—of thousands. Some have been translated into other languages, and many have been featured on podcasts, SoundCloud, and YouTube channels. A few have even been made into short movies.

I’ve edited and collected the most horrible of the stories here. You probably shouldn’t read these; they aren’t good for you. Still, I enjoyed writing them, and lots of people enjoyed reading them. You might too.

They are about horrible things that happened and might yet happen. Upsetting things like rewatching movies we’ve all seen, what happens when we’re sleeping, the horror of falling in love, and national monuments behaving badly. Creepy stories about things that happen at coffee shops, a strange flu, and a dog that wants so badly to be good. Disturbing things like the choices we make together, an informercial for a thing you may not want, and to end it all—a caricaturist’s love note to you, and you, and you. All awful, unbearable things. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Here’s a link to the collection.