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The Willows by Algernon Blackwood (3/112)
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This is one of very few horror stories that actually unsettles me. I've read it before, in highschool and in translation, but even then I could appreciate the beauty and the mastery of it. The trick was to combine terror with awe, and Blackwood did it as the first one, practically inventing the creative axis the cosmic horror would follow for years and years to come.
— Nov 16, 2025 08:25AM
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This is one of very few horror stories that actually unsettles me. I've read it before, in highschool and in translation, but even then I could appreciate the beauty and the mastery of it. The trick was to combine terror with awe, and Blackwood did it as the first one, practically inventing the creative axis the cosmic horror would follow for years and years to come.
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This is a banger and not only because I love Dunsany! It's just so elegant, so Dickensian and yet so on the nose regarding upper middle class ideas of superiority AND it has a dark and wonderfully fairy-tale-like plot around an enchanted forest. Vibes are similar to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Nata, I'm looking at you 👁️👁️)...
— Nov 17, 2025 08:59AM
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How Nuth Would have Practiced His Art Upon the Gnoles by Lord Dunsany (6/112)
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Casting the Runes by M.R. James (5/112)
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Appropriately written by a medieval scholar, this story deals with an alchemist-turned-demonologist who had enough of academic rejections and pettily decided to murder his unfavourable reviewers (understandable but still evil). It's suspenseful and somehow comedic, so I quite enjoyed it and even downloaded the whole collection from which this story comes.
— Nov 17, 2025 08:29AM
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Appropriately written by a medieval scholar, this story deals with an alchemist-turned-demonologist who had enough of academic rejections and pettily decided to murder his unfavourable reviewers (understandable but still evil). It's suspenseful and somehow comedic, so I quite enjoyed it and even downloaded the whole collection from which this story comes.
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Sredni Vashtar by Saki (4/112)
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It's a vignette concerning some sympathetic magic, adolescent trauma, and unexpected Hindu etymological references. I do enjoy stories about vicious children: it makes me feel seen.
— Nov 17, 2025 08:20AM
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It's a vignette concerning some sympathetic magic, adolescent trauma, and unexpected Hindu etymological references. I do enjoy stories about vicious children: it makes me feel seen.
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The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford (2/112)
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Now we are talking! A great blend of classic horror (a vengeful ghost) and the weird which here manifest rather as form than theme. The story is told in first person: an old sea captain tells conversationally relates it to some "you" who's supposedly visiting him in his haunted house. Lovingly crafted cosy horror on par with my favourite Jerusalem's Lot.
— Nov 15, 2025 05:38AM
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Now we are talking! A great blend of classic horror (a vengeful ghost) and the weird which here manifest rather as form than theme. The story is told in first person: an old sea captain tells conversationally relates it to some "you" who's supposedly visiting him in his haunted house. Lovingly crafted cosy horror on par with my favourite Jerusalem's Lot.
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The Other Side by Alfred Kubin (1/112)
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Such a disappointing beginning. First, these are excerpts from a novel and second, these fragments are only exciting to an anglophone: this prose is simply central-european expressionist literature that would later clarify into Bernhard and the likes. For European readers, it's like Kipling with slight sexual undertones. Should have put Crawford first and call it a day.
— Nov 14, 2025 01:19PM
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Such a disappointing beginning. First, these are excerpts from a novel and second, these fragments are only exciting to an anglophone: this prose is simply central-european expressionist literature that would later clarify into Bernhard and the likes. For European readers, it's like Kipling with slight sexual undertones. Should have put Crawford first and call it a day.
