Literary Horror discussion

Valancourt just released their reprint of L.P. Hartley's of The Travelling Grave and Other Stories!

I really need to re-read his weird fiction, as remember quite liking it some years back. "Podolo" stuck with me, he managed to craft this inexplicably eerie, dreamlike weirdness without employing a drop of overt supernaturalism. And that titular piece is indeed hilarious. It reminded me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv9zE...
tho I have no bloody idea if Bradbury got his mechanical coffin idea from that story.

Hartley's horror stories are unjustly ignored. I agree with Aickman comment, they sometimes really read like proto-Aickman (same like John Metcalfe at his best), but they were pretty varied for being written by someone who wasn't mainly a horror writer. Even the more "conventional" ones could be great and scary af, people need to read something like Feet Foremost to understand how many ghost stories actually fail to make their ghosts feel scary and otherworldly...