Hi!
In both literature and cinema I always tend to gravitate towards darker, more macabre aesthetics and themes. I grew up reading horror books, but as my reading tastes developed, I’ve found a lot of genre fiction to be (for lack of a less negative term) shallow and “cheap”.
I desperately need some recommendations on high quality horror-adjacent literature, that could be considered art, not just entertainment.
Here are some authors I enjoy that fit what I am looking for: Thomas Ligotti, E. A. Poe, Shirley Jackson, Cormac McCarthy, Mary Shelley, even some of Calvino and Borges
Thanks a lot!
by cejko420
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White Tears – Hari Kunzru
Fever Dream – Samantha Schweblin
Tender Is the Flesh – Augustina Bazterrica
Our Share of Night – Mariana Enríquez
Slade House – David Mitchell
The Sluts – Dennis Cooper
Beloved by Toni Morrison maybe? It’s not horror horror but it’s technically a ghost story and absolutely haunting due to its subject manner.