When I first got into PKD and heard his take on American anti-intellectualism, I didn't really get it. People aren't opposed to education in general, surely! Everybody says to go to college and make something of yourself. But then they hate you for it. My own dad encouraged me to go to college at the same time he was calling it a brainwashing factory. Dummies gonna dumb.

I’ve been listening through Ethel Cain’s new EP Perverts as a soundtrack to this. Highly recommend, soul-consuming experience

Very unique paychological horror. It's available for free here https://qntm.org/scp

Honestly at the top of psychological horror, i gifted the hardcover to a girl and she got too scared to finish it.

And the concepts are incredibly new and fresh.

Highly recommend.

"Piranesi lives in the House. Day after day, he explores its vast halls and documents the tides that wash through its lower levels. But the more he learns the less he understands.

Adapted for the stage by Sami Ibrahim and directed by Ned Bennett, Piranesi is based on Susanna Clarke’s award-winning novel.

Playing in the Swan Theatre during summer 2027, experience an immersive theatrical world that invites audiences to turn detective in a treacherous place of shadow and illusion.

Creative team includes:

Director Ned Bennett, Set and Costume Designer Georgia Lowe and Lighting Designer Jessica Hung Han Yun.

Original Artwork by David Altmejd. Art Direction by Louise Richardson."

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Cowboys fighting werewolves and vampires, undead cowboys or non-human cowboys, shapeshifters and curses and spooky happenings. Happened across this image and it abruptly reminded me of the entire Weird West genre and how I wanted to get into it after being exposed to it a couple years ago and just didn't know where to start. I love old Westerns the paranormal and I think it's just a super fun combination for a genre.

Just as the title says.

edit:As per Mod response AI is banned from /r/weirdlit.

The protagonist reads the title of their own book then pleads with the reader to stop reading, each turn of the page boldly asking, "Are we the monster?"

“The Land of Laughs,” Jonathan Carroll, 1983.

Wow, this was one heck of a wild read! I don’t know if I would label it as Horror, in the pure sense, but it is definitely a whimsical type of Horror with plenty inside it to match the genre.

Thomas Abbey is the son of a famous movie actor of the 1940s, and an English professor at a small Connecticut college. Although he has little interest in his father’s life, Thomas has a fascination with author Marshall France who wrote a number of curious best selling novels that have a large cult following. But, strangely, Marshall France has never had a biography done on him and Thomas decides to do one.

Assisting Thomas is another admirer of France’s works named Saxony. She is an amazing researcher and together, they decide to visit Marshall France’s hometown in Missouri to learn more about him. Galen is at first a common rural community when the pair initially arrive. They discover that Marshall’s legacy is well known and celebrated, but that his daughter has not allowed anyone to do a history on him for some reason.

The secret as to why slowly unfolds, and when it is revealed, it’s terrifying. Suddenly, Thomas finds himself caught in a wild world where Marshall France’s works are more than just fiction. They are downright deadly, forcing Thomas into a narrative that could cost both him and Saxony’s lives.

“The Land of Laughs,” is an excellent page turner. Carroll tells the story in first person in Thomas’ perspective, and does it very well. At points it gets a bit laborious, but then all of a sudden, stuff happens that pulls you right back into this world of deadly curiosities.

Highly recommended! Great read.

First of all I must share that I’m using the term “weird” here a little bit loosely, as in using it as a sort of umbrella for anything that I find grapples with our perception of reality and forces us to confront with the unimaginable. For example, I find Imajica by Clive Barker fitting under this umbrella nicely, not because it only deals with impossible things, but because it thrusts seemingly ordinary people on the surface into a grand scheme of things beyond cosmic proportions leading to deep philosophical revelations. I hope this helps clarify some things. I have read a lot of the classics, as well as some of the “new weird” but as for the latter I am still very much a beginner since up until recently the only book I felt fall under that category was the Southern Reach trilogy. That is where you guys come in :)

Here are some of the authors I have not read yet but am deeply interested in exploring:

- Thomas Ligotti

- Brian Evenson

- Laird Barron

- John Langan

- Yoko Ogawa

- Edogawa Rampo

- China Mieville

- Kurt Vonnegut

Apparently this is old news, but I just found out about it. I'm interested to see how they'll adapt such a dreamy/surreal book to the big screen.

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It's so far ahead of it's time.Written in 1912, this book is like a snapshot into the early days of scifi/horror. Loosely inspired by Egyptian mythology and written in a prosaic style reminiscent of a 19th century gothic novel, this book transports you the far future into a dying earth; the sun has seemingly vanished leaving the world shrouded in darkness and hostility.

The last surviving members of the human race inhabit a pyramid shaped megastructure, 7 miles high, containing many interior levels, each of which are the size of small countries. It's light radiates for miles across the bleak and monster infested landscape.

On each of the four corners of the pyramid are colossal, ancient, silent watchers. Who have been obseving the last survivors of humanity for hundreds of thousands of years. Each one of these watchers is so distinctive and fantastic; for example, the watcher of the south-west has a beam of light that shoots out of the ground and directly into it's eye, humanity knows not if it's blinded. The watcher of the north east has a blue halo above it's head that illuminates the wrinkles on his forehead, but shrouds his face in darkness, etc....

Ontop of this the world is inhabited by strange and horrifying monsters that earned Hodgson the admiration of HP Lovecraft. Hostile, grey skinned giants, hounds the size of horses, ghostly figures made of mist, giant ambushing arachnids, the Ab humans, the silent ones, the thing that nods...

I cannot state how fantastic this book is. A pioneering work of Scifantasy and scihorror; expressed like a gothic horror novel, and has some of the strongest world building I have ever fucking seen.

Picked up for fun. Don’t have high hopes but a fun idea.

Here’s the info about the plot that we have: “Forced to investigate a devastating personal tragedy, an ordinary woman stumbles on dark conspiracies and provokes the attention of uncanny forces.”