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Post by helrunar on Dec 16, 2022 20:44:45 GMT
Thanks Swampi! Wishing you and yours a joyous (or at least tolerable) Yule season! I'm thinking of putting the BL's Sunless Solstice anthology on my "device" for holiday reading.
cheers, Hel.
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 16, 2022 21:05:25 GMT
Thanks Swampi! Wishing you and yours a joyous (or at least tolerable) Yule season! I'm thinking of putting the BL's Sunless Solstice anthology on my "device" for holiday reading. cheers, Hel. You're welcome, Hel! I wish you and yours the same! |
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Post by weirdmonger on Dec 17, 2022 5:24:24 GMT
"The Tower" was interesting to me because it did absolutely nothing for me. I think I know what she was doing in the story but all I thought at the end was "that's 15 minutes of my life I'll never get back." Several folks on this forum have proclaimed it to be one of the most terrifying stories they've ever read. De gustibus, etc. H. If I recall correctly, it did nothing for me either. So you're not alone! There is an added terror added by that very fact of such extreme polarity of reaction, I feel. |
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Post by ramseycampbell on Dec 19, 2022 14:34:51 GMT
"The Tower" haunted me so much that I fear I rather pinched from it in a novel.
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Post by andydecker on Dec 19, 2022 20:44:19 GMT
I finally found The Tower and read it. I wasn't so thrilled. As I didn't remember the number of the stairs, I had to go back to confirm the end. It is a nice and clever idea, even if the characterisation hasn't aged well. But the most horrific story I have ever read? Surely not.
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Post by Knygathin on Dec 20, 2022 7:01:20 GMT
I don't think I have ever read a truly horrific story. It is just literature entertainment and aesthetics. It may tickle the horror bone, but that is a pleasant sensation.
I have been unbearably horrified/disgusted by reading/hearing reports of cruelty from real life.
I have also been unpleasantly disturbed by some movies. Movies are more in your face than literature.
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Post by andydecker on Dec 20, 2022 8:46:49 GMT
I have also been unpleasantly disturbed by some movies. Movies are more in your face than literature.
You are right in this. I will never forget the first time I saw Taxi Driver. I was much too young and naive for it, understood only the half of it truly and was actually shocked about the ending when Travis walked free. How could this be, why wasn't he in jail? The movie left a deep impression.
To the most unpleasant stories I read surely belong The Clinic by Alex White.
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Post by andydecker on Dec 20, 2022 8:51:06 GMT
"The Tower" haunted me so much that I fear I rather pinched from it in a novel. It is quite interesting how often the Tower as a motif is found in the fantastic literature. How many stories in Weird Tales used it, from Howard to Smith? It became kind of a cliché in fantasy stories. I guess western education with the Tower of Babel motif left its impression. |
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 20, 2022 11:40:55 GMT
I don't think I have ever read a truly horrific story. It is just literature entertainment and aesthetics. It may tickle the horror bone, but that is a pleasant sensation. I have been unbearably horrified/disgusted by reading/hearing reports of cruelty from real life. I have also been unpleasantly disturbed by some movies. Movies are more in your face than literature. I agree with you totally on all three points. The second especially, having just read (and wished I hadn't) about Issei Sagawa, known as the "Kobe Cannibal" who died last month. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 20, 2022 14:16:39 GMT
The second especially, having just read (and wished I hadn't) about Issei Sagawa, known as the "Kobe Cannibal" who died last month. I once made the mistake of googling his name. One of the first things that came up was a picture of his French girlfriend after he was finished with her, something I wish I had not seen. In my youth, however, I was unconcerned enough that I wrote a song inspired by the events. |
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 20, 2022 14:50:31 GMT
The second especially, having just read (and wished I hadn't) about Issei Sagawa, known as the "Kobe Cannibal" who died last month. I once made the mistake of googling his name. One of the first things that came up was a picture of his French girlfriend after he was finished with her, something I wish I had not seen. In my youth, however, I was unconcerned enough that I wrote a song inspired by the events. That's what I just did, but thankfully did not see any photos of the poor woman. If I may ask, what if anything happened to the song? |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 20, 2022 16:10:09 GMT
If I may ask, what if anything happened to the song? Nothing, thankfully. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 20, 2022 19:08:08 GMT
I am sure there must be examples, in particular from my childhood, but offhand I cannot think of any stories that frightened me. With films it is another matter. For instance, I found THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT very unsettling. I feel people who were unaffected by it were probably just not paying attention.
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Post by andydecker on Dec 21, 2022 8:37:24 GMT
I am sure there must be examples, in particular from my childhood, but offhand I cannot think of any stories that frightened me. With films it is another matter. For instance, I found THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT very unsettling. I feel people who were unaffected by it were probably just not paying attention. Interesting. That one did nothing for me, but I guess I was too settled in my ways when I finally watched it on TV. Only thought it irritating.
As you mentioned childhood, I dimly remember a Tarzan movie where the villain got eaten by a giant spider. I don't know which Tarzan this was, could be Gordon Scott, I never saw it again and have not the intention to.
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Post by ralfy on Dec 24, 2022 8:56:21 GMT
Kafka's Metamorphosis, and not because of the metamorphosis. His sister’s violin playing? What's notable is that Gregor was happy.
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