(Part 3) Top products from r/horrorlit

I recently picked up the short story compilation 'Devils and Demons' edited by Marvin Kaye [https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Demons-Treasury-Fiendish-Tales/dp/0385185634/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1466185279&sr=1-1&keywords=devils+and+demons]

Its been a great read so far, I just finished Rachela. Wow, what an amazing story with a fascinating ending!

These were my favorite growing up. There is a different version where the illustrations are more cartoony, but this collection is easily God Tier.

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

The best collection of his that is out there is this one.

Infected by Scott Sigler was excellent.

The Monster Show was interesting and so was On Monsters.

The Forest of Hands and Teeth is a YA zombie novel that is one of the best horror books I’ve read in that genre adult or YA.

It is what I usually hand to my YA/preteen patrons when they ask for horror refs at my library. It’s the first in a trilogy.

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.

It's not horror, or even fiction, but check out The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

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

The second one is simply called Splatterpunks II

A bit of an obscure one, but I read this back at Uni.

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https://www.amazon.com/Terror-Australis-best-Australian-horror/dp/0340584556/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=terror+australis+leigh+blackmore&qid=1563154962&s=books&sr=1-1

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.

몸 is a anthology of body horror, each story focusing on a different part of the human body, and with a central story tying all of it together.

손톱 is a novel about a woman who is recovering from a personal tragedy but starts having peculiar nightmares and losing her fingernails.

Another suggestion is ‘28’ and ‘종의 기원(this one was translated as ‘The good son’ in english)by 정유정.

28 is a story of the survival of four people and one dog in a small city in quarantine due to a deadly disease.

종의 기원:https://www.amazon.com/Good-Son-Novel-You-Jeong-Jeong/dp/0143131958

Ok so not horror per se, but there is a series of history books that tell the story through primary docs, i.e docs written during the time. They give a quick intro to the situation, then every chapter has a quick intro followed by primary docs that fill you in on what happened. Journal entries, letters, interviews, etc.

There is one for My Lai, and it is horrifying.

https://www.amazon.com/My-Lai-History-Documents-Bedford/dp/0312142277

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.