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.

(19 Feb 2012 09:10 AM)James Everington Wrote:  More evidence to prove the assertion that intelligent horror does exist:

Willy by Robert Dunbar. A genuinely original and interesting book - the atmosphere and tension built up throughout it is really good, and it's nice and ambiguous even at the end. Some people may not think it 'horror' at all, but it is a really good book.