#horror rec

[sidhewrites]

Just finished Whalefall by Daniel Kraus and DAMN was it amazing.

I saw it as a recommendation on a horror lit forum some months back, and immediately put a hold on it at the library because I was looking for some claustrophobic or oceanic horror. Turns out it’s about a diver from SoCal, which, hey, I’m that, who gets swallowed by a whale, which, hey wtf?

What ensued was some of the most unique, claustrophobic scenes with incredibly realistic scuba diving and (presumably) realistic whale guts doing what whale guts do. Usually, the immersion is broken when a book uses scuba diving due to some small inaccuracy that most people wouldn’t even think to include, but the only time I surfaced (hehe) was to point out everything I recognized as familiar. Amazing prose, fantastic planting and payoff 10/10 no notes. (Ok some notes, but any issue I had was subjective gripes that don’t take away from the effectiveness of the story. )

If you’re even a little bit interested, absolutely read the book, it’s absolutely worth it.

[lowhorrors]

We Sold Our Souls

We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix

“A girl with a guitar never has to apologize for anything.”

This book was so good and so damn quotable. In the climactic finale, literally on a stage, I was so moved that I had chilled and teared up, and started screaming the lines to my partner. This is absolutely on my favorites shelf and will be reread.

[basic-bamboo]

So I just watched They Look Like People (and loved it) and feel like some people missed the intention (or maybe what I took away from it was just different.

My interpretation (spoilers just to be safe):

It's not about "what if what Wyatt is experiencing is real," it's about putting yourself in the shoes of and experiencing the fear and doubts that someone who is having those experiences. When you experience delusions, you can know logically that they are impossible, that they CAN'T be real. But you believe them anyways. It's literally not something you can logic yourself out. You cannot willpower your way out of a delusion.

As the audience, we are not given any evidence that what Wyatt is experiencing is real beyond his own senses. That doesn't make it any less real or any less scary.

This is the only "horror" movie (in quotes because I don't think the director considers it horror, but it gets recommended as horror) with a schizophrenic character where the audience is meant to sympathize with the schizophrenic character. The schizophrenic character is the audience proxy. He's not the villain, he's not the serial killer that has to be stopped before it's too late.

In fact, part of the "horror" is how people treat Wyatt, how they are cruel and saneist to him, how stigma about psychotic disorders further isolates a man who is already suffering and isolating himself.

It is also, ultimately, a movie about love. It is a love story between two best friends, two men who have been trapped by toxic masculinity who are still saved by their love for each other and letting down their walls and their vulnerability.

[bookmunchies]

Anyone feel like reading a horror? I have a good rec but keep in mind in a few days almost all the ch are gonna be locked, cause yeah, it's on webtoons.

The MC is stuck in a high school romance novel, with everyone around her looking like human shadows, and only the ML having a face, she follows the plot to the dot, however the day the confession is supposed to happen, for the first time something not a part of the plot happens, and that something is a zombie outbreak. Not only that, but every time she fails to fulfill the plot for any reason, she wakes back up on the morning the glitch happened. The characters, story and the art style are all great. Characters are well thought out, the story has a nice flow, and the art does a great job at showing how a typical romance manhwa descends into horror.

I myself don't really like zombies tbo, but I really love this. I actually gave it a try because before it was even picked up for an eng serialization, I loved that creator's previous work, and did not even read the summary, so the ending of ch1 really did a good job of hooking me thru surprise hahaha. After it got an official tl I waited for it to go past the fantl but then I thought I might as well wait till it ends, so I just started reading it again last night. Here's the link:

[rosecorcoranwrites]

It's like, a cyclopean abomination from black gulfs of non-Euclidean geometry... or something.

Today, I rave about Lovecraft and Sinking City (and briefly rant about Lovecraft Country). Get ready for pulpy cults, unfortunate cat names, cannibalism, soggy city streets, and framing a man for murder!

[gayofficial]

weird freak mutual to weird freak mutual connection

[helloitshaley]

Haley's Horror Recs

What does a haunted bee hive have in common with a Hooters? Boo-bees

INSIDIOUS

Paranormal

Maybe it isn't the house at all. Can a person be the one who is haunted? When weird stuff starts to happen all around this family, and the son ends up in a sort of coma, they have no choice but to call in an expert, and the explanation for the strange happenings is much more insidious than anyone was expecting.

You should watch if: You're a fan of haunting/paranormal movies. You like a movie with good jump scares. You like when a movie doesn't follow the typical pattern for its genre.

Available to watch on Max

(If you like this try; The Conjuring, Sinister, Poltergeist, 1408, The Ring, The Nun, Mama)

[goryhorroor]

“2000s horror movies had to adapt rapidly in the new decade. by 2005, the horror genre was as popular as ever. horror films routinely topped the box office, yielding an above-average gross on below-average costs. it seems that audiences wanted a good, group scare as a form of escapism.”

[thechills]

A QUICK GUIDE TO TRANSCENDENTAL HORROR

the ecstasy of the agony by sean t collins / annihilation (2018) / apostle (2018)  martyrs (2008) / jennifer’s body (2009) / the vvitch (2015)

[robocatfan]

I won’t be the only person in this hellsite who is obsessed over horror killer mermaid stories and then constantly die inside when not only there is a severe lack of that sub genre, but also when amongst those few these two mfs are one of the few ones that actually have good compelling stories, and I’ll make sure of that!

[lowhorrors]

[crowclubkaz]

💚👁️🕸️ In honour of The Magnus Protocol releasing today, here are some book recommendations based on The Magnus Archives Fears!! 🕸️👁️💚

Detailed list of books below the cut!

For more book recommendations, especially queer horror, check out my Bookstagram @hauntedstacks

The Buried ⚰️ - Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman - Stuck by Ben Young - The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling - The Deep by Nick Cutter

The Corruption 🦠 - What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher - Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris - The Honeys by Ryan La Sala - She Is A Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

The Dark 🌑 - Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes - Nightfall by Jake Halpern & Peter Kujawinski - No Power by Todd Kirby - The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

The Desolation 🔥 - Firestarter by Stephen King - Burner by Robert Ford - Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta - Burn the House Down by Kenna Jenkins

The End 💀 - Funeral Girl by Emma K. Ohland - Pet Sematary by Stephen King - Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune - This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno

The Extinction 🦴 - Lost Signals by Max Booth III - Bride of the Tornado by James Kennedy - No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz - The Rules of the Road by C.B. Jones

The Eye 👁️ - Video Palace by Maynard Wills - Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie - A History of Fear by Luke Dumas - The Watchers by A.M. Shine

The Flesh 🦷 - You’ve Lost A Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca - Carnivore by Justin Boote - A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers - Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

The Hunt 🏹 - Hunt by Alexandra Nisneru - The Woods Are Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins - Survive the Night by Danielle Vega - The Hunger by Alma Katsu

The Lonely ☁️ - Red River Seven by A.J. Ryan - Solitude by Michael Penning - Dark Matter by Michelle Paver - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Slaughter 🥩 - Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin - Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine - American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis - The Summer I Died by Ryan C. Thomas

The Spiral 🌀 - That Darkened Doorstep by Catherine Jordan - Mind the Mirrors by Amanda Leanne - Grey Noise by Marcus Hawke - Last to Leave the Room by Caitlin Starling

The Stranger🕴️ - It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames - My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix - The Deep by Alma Katsu - The Outside by Stephen King

The Vast 🪂 - From Below by Darcy Coates - Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant - Floating Staircase by Ronald Mafi - Nightmare Sky by Red Lagoe

The Web 🕸️ - The Taking of Jake Livingston - The Fervor by Alma Katsu - The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig - Come Closer by Sarah Gran

If You Like The Magnus Archives 💚 - Thirteen Stories by Jonathan Sims - Family Business by Jonathan Sims - Gas Station by Jack Townsend - Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

[classichorrorblog]

10 Found Footage/Documentary Style Movies To Consider For October/Halloween

[mirrorhouse]

CHAINSAWS IN HORROR MOVIES 🪚

Evil Dead II (1987) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) Motel Hell (1980) Mandy (2018) Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) [•REC]³: Genesis (2012) Tokyo Gore Police (2008) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Evil Dead Rise (2023)

[gorelesbian]

reblog this with 5 of your favourite horror movies in the tags and i will send you an ask with recs based on your favs!

[goryhorroor]

favorite horror movies (61-90)