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The Biznatch Haderach ([info]kadath) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2007-10-31 13:46:00
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Happy Halloween!
Courtesy of Project Gutenberg and my 100-year lag in weird fiction tastes, please enjoy the following scary stories to read in the dark:

Carmilla, John Sheridan le Fanu

The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe

The Horla, Guy de Maupassant (français)

The King in Yellow, Robert W. Chambers

The Willows, Algernon Blackwood

The Damned Thing, Ambrose Bierce

And, let's go with one of Lovecraft's obscure works:

Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family

Scary stories? Link 'em if ya got 'em.

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[info]jetamors
2007-10-31 05:54 pm UTC (link)
Milk Bottles

If you poke around the website, there are a lot of other American scary stories available.

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[info]antigone
2007-10-31 09:23 pm UTC (link)
Almost that exact same story is in Lafcadio Hearn's Japan! I think it must be originally from Japan, perhaps brought to California by immigrants?

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[info]brennalarose
2007-10-31 05:56 pm UTC (link)
I love you. Marry me in Gothic style and let us flee to Miskatonic country to raise eldritch babies in a cyclopean split-level.

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[info]djinnj
2007-10-31 06:44 pm UTC (link)
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is one of the creepiest things I've ever read, although not what I would consider "horror" per se.

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[info]brennalarose
2007-10-31 07:01 pm UTC (link)
Oh god yes. That story creeped me out, while making me want to beat the crap out of her husband.

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(Anonymous)
2007-10-31 08:58 pm UTC (link)
Awesome!!! That story was mentioned in my USA Literature as not being published in my country but I still wanted to read it.

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(no subject) - [info]ru_debega, 2007-11-01 01:17 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]djinnj, 2007-11-01 01:34 am UTC

[info]cleolinda
2007-10-31 06:50 pm UTC (link)
AWESOME. I was feeling guilty that I hadn't done something like this again this year. "The Lodger" and "The Dancing Partner" are two of my favorites.

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(no subject) - [info]brennalarose, 2007-10-31 07:07 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]chibikaijuu, 2007-10-31 11:59 pm UTC

[info]cat_mcdougall
2007-10-31 06:58 pm UTC (link)
The Fall of the House of Usher terrified me when I first read it.

That, and "Hounds of the Baskervilles".

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[info]kaesa
2007-10-31 06:58 pm UTC (link)
Eee.

Following up with the Lovecraft, some Lovecraft-based Cold War-era SF, "A Colder War".

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(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2007-10-31 07:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]daylightsparks, 2007-10-31 09:06 pm UTC

[info]onyxnoir
2007-10-31 07:33 pm UTC (link)
Varney the Vampire

Always a classic.

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(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2007-10-31 07:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]onyxnoir, 2007-10-31 07:38 pm UTC
ALSO - [info]onyxnoir, 2007-10-31 07:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2007-10-31 07:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]onyxnoir, 2007-10-31 07:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2007-10-31 07:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]onyxnoir, 2007-10-31 07:46 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]onyxnoir, 2007-10-31 07:47 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2007-10-31 07:47 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]onyxnoir, 2007-10-31 07:50 pm UTC
Re: ALSO - [info]singe, 2007-11-01 12:14 am UTC

[info]tehrin
2007-10-31 07:55 pm UTC (link)
Evil Kids is my favorite. It's fairly recent, but undertone of the story scares the crap out of me.

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[info]mlleelizabeth
2007-10-31 08:14 pm UTC (link)
More Lovecraft:
The Rats in the Walls

Also, there are several short stories by Harlan Ellison that give me the shivers, but I cannot remember the title of the one that stands at the most at the moment. I thing it might be Seeing from the Strange Wine collection, but I’m just not sure. I’ll check when I get home.

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(no subject) - [info]mister_terrific, 2007-10-31 09:12 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2007-10-31 10:58 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]arjumand, 2007-11-01 09:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2007-11-01 10:34 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ru_debega, 2007-11-01 08:10 am UTC

[info]cmikhailovic
2007-10-31 08:17 pm UTC (link)
The Literary Gothic is one of the most awesome sites ever. Check out the author listing:

http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/authors.html

My recommendations? Anything by E.F. Benson or M.R. James.

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[info]tiye
2007-10-31 08:28 pm UTC (link)
I'd like to make a companion post with links Halloweenish music of roughly the same time period (19th-early 20th century). Would this be the place to do it, or would Random_Lounge be better? *not sure if Sibelius counts as a fandom*

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[info]azazello
2007-10-31 09:09 pm UTC (link)
M R James on Project Gutenberg.

'O Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad' is scarier than anything. But M R James is the absolute master. Also his 'Lost Hearts' was televised many years ago, and scared me to bits.

Oh, and Saki (H H Munro) wrote a story called 'Sredni Vashtar' which is pretty damned frightening. Here it is, and all his other short stories which I can't recommend enough.

And finally, The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs. *shudder* Often imitated, rarely duplicated.

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(no subject) - [info]emiweebee, 2007-10-31 11:16 pm UTC

[info]mister_terrific
2007-10-31 09:18 pm UTC (link)
"The Small Assassin" by Ray Bradbury in The October Country.

"The October Game" by Ray Bradbury. In fact, here's the EC Comics version of the story in all its terrible glory.

http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/4316675.html

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(no subject) - [info]nekoneko, 2007-10-31 10:03 pm UTC

[info]emiweebee
2007-10-31 10:50 pm UTC (link)
My Lovecraft story of choice, which actually gets me wide-eyed and staring when I read: The Colour Out of Space.

Poe's creeped out mind-fuck from hell: Berenice. DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE TEETH PHOBIC!!!

The Night Wire.

A Suspicious Gift.

The Easter Egg. Not a traditional scary story, mind.

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(no subject) - [info]ecchaniz0r, 2007-11-01 12:47 am UTC
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[info]rosehiptea
2007-10-31 11:03 pm UTC (link)
I know it will make everyone else think of sleep and overdone prose, but Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown still scared me.

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(no subject) - [info]singe, 2007-11-01 12:24 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rikiki, 2007-11-01 01:27 am UTC

[info]singe
2007-11-01 12:22 am UTC (link)
Here, let me hook ya'll up with a great archive... Horrormasters.

I particularly recommend Washington Irving's 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.' But why can't I find Ambrose Bierce's 'The Windowless Room' anywhere?! Tchah!

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2007-11-01 12:46 am UTC (link)
HOLY PANTS I AM KIND OF IN LOVE WITH CARMILLA.

And 'The Horla' is amazing. Wow. XD

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[info]ru_debega
2007-11-01 01:09 am UTC (link)
Everyone's linked to my favorite scary stories so far, so I humbly submit some scary manga. I'm sure everyone and their mother has read this by now, but it certainly succeeded in creeping me out for no discernible reason:

The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito.

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(no subject) - [info]ecchaniz0r, 2007-11-01 01:24 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]ru_debega, 2007-11-02 01:16 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]stella_polaris, 2007-11-02 12:46 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ru_debega, 2007-11-02 01:14 am UTC

[info]ecchaniz0r
2007-11-01 01:28 am UTC (link)
Fuan no Tane is demented J-horror. And it's awesome.

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(no subject) - [info]ru_debega, 2007-11-01 02:48 am UTC
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[info]airborne_rodent
2007-11-01 05:00 am UTC (link)
Three Skeleton Key by George G. Toudouze.

Thought I'd pick one with a rat theme. ;)

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[info]ajatshatru
2007-11-02 09:04 pm UTC (link)
Wow, this is lovely. I'm reccing this post :)

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[info]pervert_bitch
2007-11-03 03:24 pm UTC (link)
Now this is made of awesome :D
Ah, Ambrose Bierce... so underused by me f-list :P

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