RE: Intelligent horror...does it exist?
(20 Feb 2012 06:41 PM)gryeates666 Wrote: I would recommend Thomas Ligotti first and foremost. He is regularly compared to Lovecraft and Poe as being their contemporary heir though he has a style all his own that oscillates from the nightmarishly desolate to the fiercely political - his short novel 'My Work is Not Yet Done' might be a good place to start, personally I think it stands as superior to Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho.
(20 Feb 2012 08:05 PM)James Everington Wrote:(20 Feb 2012 06:41 PM)gryeates666 Wrote: I would recommend Thomas Ligotti first and foremost. He is regularly compared to Lovecraft and Poe as being their contemporary heir though he has a style all his own that oscillates from the nightmarishly desolate to the fiercely political - his short novel 'My Work is Not Yet Done' might be a good place to start, personally I think it stands as superior to Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho.
I do like Ligotti, but some of his stuff is a bit of an acquired taste I think. You're right, 'My Work is Not Yet Done' is probably the best pace to start for people.
He is an acquired taste, yes. Just to my taste though - I received my copy of the Agonising Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein this morning and can't wait to get stuck into it.
