Mother Suspiria 

My (un)holy trinity of horror #authors is Gemma Files, Laird Barron, and John Langan. I know anything I read by them will be beautifully eloquent & unsettling. And I still have much to read by them, which is very exciting!

Who are your favorite #weirdhorror or #horror writers?

(#Art: 'The Nightmare' By Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1781)

Nov 20, 2022 at 3:15pmWeb
Show threadR.A.Busby AuthorNov 20, 2022
@stina_marie I just finished Langan’s The Fisherman, and his story “Technicolor” blew me away. It’s on Pseudopod if anyone wants to hear it!
Show threadMother Suspiria Nov 20, 2022
@RABusby Ooh, I have The Fisherman, but the next one I'm reading is Corpsemouth. Did you like it? It seems polarizing (on Reddit, at least) but I'm very excited to read it!
Show threadR.A.Busby AuthorNov 20, 2022
@stina_marie Okay, I understand why it’s polarizing. Basically, it’s a frame story, but you are with Narrator #1 for a long time, which is unusual, so when we get to Narrator 2, I think a lot of readers are like, “OMG, when are we getting back to the main story???” without realizing that this wasn’t just a digression.
For me, I knew to expect that, so I think the reading experience was better for not expecting it to be a short digression, but more like an extended side quest.
Show threadSteveNov 20, 2022

@stina_marie I desperately nned to read more of Gemma and John, but man, I've LOVED everything I've read by Laird. I just want to sit next to a campfire and listen to him.

I don't know if it fits your bill, but Philip Fracassi's THE REJECTS terrified me on a primal level and I can't really explain why. Great short story for under a buck.

Show threadMother Suspiria Nov 20, 2022
@Steve If you haven't read Gemma Files' short story collection In That Endlessness, Our End, I BEG you to do so, posthaste. It's spectacular and fills you with beautiful dread & unease.
Thanks for the rec, I enjoyed Fracassi's Beneath A Pale Sky very much, went and bought the story and will read it shortly!!
Show threadSteveNov 20, 2022

@stina_marie I'll bump that way up! I read DEAR LAURA and hot damn, I was an instant fan.

Then I got to meet her at a convention and she's so wonderful and hilarious. She's a gem.

Show threadMother Suspiria Nov 20, 2022
@Steve Ahh, that's Gemma Amor! I enjoy her stuff as well but what I've read isn't as cosmic as Gemma Files'. I've been wanting to read Dear Laura for awhile now, though, so I'm glad to know this info!
Show threadSteveNov 20, 2022
@stina_marie ARGH! You are correct! Dangit. I have not read Files yet, but I do have a few of her books and will definitely add THAT ENDLESSNESS to the list (I have about all of Amor's stuff, so I figured I owned it and forgot the title. lol.)
Show threadMother Suspiria Nov 20, 2022
@Steve I do this with John Irving/John Updike, I totally understand 😂