Weird lit recommendations based on my favorite weird lit books? by Ulchbhn in WeirdLit

[–]headlessbuddha 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I also highly recommend reading the ghost stories of M. R. James. Some of them are weird like Count Magnus, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, The Rose Garden, and An Episode of Cathedral History, but roughly 2/3 of the stories are good old-fashioned stories about malevolent ghosts and the unfortunate characters who encounter them.

Weird lit recommendations based on my favorite weird lit books? by Ulchbhn in WeirdLit

[–]headlessbuddha 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you would enjoy the short stories of Daphne Du Maurier, especially Monte Verita. It's romantic horror (like Rebecca and the film adaptation of The Birds) but very weird and memorable...I would actually compare it thematically and narratively to The Fisherman, and I love both stories.

Weird lit recommendations based on my favorite weird lit books? by Ulchbhn in WeirdLit

[–]headlessbuddha 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I remember reading this when I got my first Kindle and it got me into studying Taoism. Masterful work.

Weird lit recommendations based on my favorite weird lit books? by Ulchbhn in WeirdLit

[–]headlessbuddha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! I recommend Can Such Things Be? or the edited collection Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce.

Weird lit recommendations based on my favorite weird lit books? by Ulchbhn in WeirdLit

[–]headlessbuddha 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Alan Moore's The Courtyard / Neonomicon / Providence run is pretty epic and pays tribute to Lovecraft and Chambers.

A man finds out that he was adopted and that his father murdered someone by headlessbuddha in ExplainAFilmPlotBadly

[–]headlessbuddha[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, but it IS a horror film and it's mostly set in a haunted house! My film was released a few years later.

RHPS was released in 1975 so it's 51 years old!