Alien/Aliens is a given for most people. I have been watching Event Horizon during the spooky season for years. What are some of your favorite books and movies with a horror/psychological thriller lean?
Alien/Aliens is a given for most people. I have been watching Event Horizon during the spooky season for years. What are some of your favorite books and movies with a horror/psychological thriller lean?
For books, House of leaves by Mark danielewski is a pretty crazy ride into madness.
That book is the death of comfort. And it’s the only text I’ve read with cinematography.
I want to read it again. I feel like the only other author who gives me that particular sense of creeping dread is Lovecraft, but the language and setting of house of leaves is contemporary enough that I can’t easily distance myself from it. The world lovecraft sets up is so linguistically and tonally removed from my own, whereas the family in house of leaves might live across the street.
The first time I read that book, I became uncertain of my own reality. In the 15 or so years since I first read it, I only read it once more and it was just as unsettling. It’s a goddamn masterpiece and I should really work up the strength to read it again.
I only read it the one time and that was just about fifteen years ago for me as well.
When I got to the part where he actually goes insane and it’s just like 20 pages of gobbledygook, I pushed myself to read all of the ranting as if it was coherent narrative.
Yeah, I definitely also became untethered at multiple points reading that book.
I’m reading the starless sea right now, erin Morgenstern’s second book, and her writing is so comfortable and cozy and fun to read, lilting like, that it might be interesting to give house of leaves another go over afterward.
Tp feel the whisper of silk and then jagged cement rubble