Classic Horror Lovers discussion

I just found an audio version of Harlan Ellison's 1967 "I have no mouth and I must scream" narrated by the man himself, which I just think is just friggin awesome! It's been on my TBR for EVER, so I'm up for that today if you like? It's on YouTube on a channel called Dildonius.

Ok sure. I might wait til tomorrow to listen to it. Do you know if we can set threads up for buddy reads here?

Latasha wrote: "Ok sure. I might wait til tomorrow to listen to it. Do you know if we can set threads up for buddy reads here?"

No idea, I don't even know how to set up threads at all.

I'll wait til tomorrow too, in the mean time I'm going to listen to 'The Voice in the Night'. I'm not familiar with it so I have no expectations.

Melanie wrote: "I'll wait til tomorrow too, in the mean time I'm going to listen to 'The Voice in the Night'. I'm not familiar with it so I have no expectations."

ohh! is that the one about the sailors? if so, it is really good.

Latasha wrote: "Melanie wrote: "I'll wait til tomorrow too, in the mean time I'm going to listen to 'The Voice in the Night'. I'm not familiar with it so I have no expectations."

ohh! is that the one about the sa..."

Just finished. It was SOOOO GOOOD. I feel a bit weepy now though.

If it’s the one I’m thinking of, it’s very good indeed.

Hi my name is Eric
I love all forms of horror but some of my favorite classic authors are
Ray Bradbury
Robert E Howard
Shirley Jackson
Richard Matheson
Robert Bloch
H.P Lovecraft
Bram Stolker
Mary Shelly
and both James (M.R and Henry)
I been a horror fan as long as I can remember and love seeing the evolution of horror form its inception as folktales to modern day creepypasta

Hey there!! I'm Cindy!

Eric wrote: "Hi my name is Eric
I love all forms of horror but some of my favorite classic authors are
Ray Bradbury
Robert E Howard
Shirley Jackson
Richard Matheson
Robert Bloch
H.P Lovecraft
Bram Stolker
Mary..."

Have you checked out E.F. Benson? My favorite ghost story writer.

Hello!

1. Ethan
2. Difficult to think of specific authors without straying into the cliche, for reasons I'll probably talk about... Probably Lovecraft? I like Edgar Allen Poe but he was less a horror writer than a mystery writer.
3. I'm generally fascinated by horror stories from different cultures because I think fear is universal and understanding how fear changes can lend you particular insight into how those different cultures tick. Stuff that was scary in the past isn't any different, really...
4. I'm obsessed with folklore. Very specifically, folklore. I will probably talk about it if its slightly related to something else. It took a lot of will power to not start talking about folklore during number 3.

Hi Everyone!
My name is Justin. I've been a member of this group for a while now but I don't know that I introduced myself and if I did it was a while ago! Anyhoo, I'm a big fan of horror and classic horror. I'm so into classic horror that I have a blog here on Goodreads groups and even this one called Hundred Year Old Horror where I analyze books and authors that are over one hundred years old. Feel free to check it out if interested.

A little bit more about me, I have written six books, four of them are horror and my latest, The Wax Factory has an old fashioned Gothic feel to it. Some of my favorite classic authors are Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. As a poet and horror poet Edgar Allan Poe is one of my biggest inspirations. I look forward to discussing and talking with you all and if you have any questions for me please feel free to ask.

Wooho! Welcome Justin.. officially!

Hi everyone, I'm James and I'm from Kansas City where I live with my Brazilian wife. Here are some interesting facts about me:

- I love reading and writing existential horror and everything related
- I'm a vegetarian for religious reasons
- I speak a little Portuguese
- I don't smoke pot, but I do vape cannabis
- My wife and I were taking care of a feral cat, but she disappeared and it made it us sad. Hopefully she'll return!

I look forward to getting to know all of you and talking about classic horror books!

1. Tim Prasil. Hiya!

2. So hard to pick favorites. Frankenstein is one of my favorite novels, so Mary Shelley. I enjoy Poe a lot. H.G. Wells moved toward horror occasionally, and he's one of my favorites.

3. Well, I've been a horror fan since I was a kid. It might have something to do with being born three days before Halloween. I just assumed all the spooky costumes and scary candy were a celebration of my brith. Well, okay. No past tense. I still go on that assumption.

4. I've taught literature at the university level--including classes in vampire fiction, in ghost stories, and in the Frankenstein tradition. About a year ago, though, I made the (dangerous?) decision to teach part-time so that I could focus on my indy press: Brom Bones Books.

Via this imprint, I publish my Vera Van Slyke Ghostly Mysteries series. Probably more relevant to this group is my Phantom Traditions Library series, for which I'm an editor/anthologist. The volumes in this library spotlight Poe, Conan Doyle, Bierce, Hoffmann, Alcott, Kipling, and I hope some you've never met before.

I look forward to chatting with ya!

Tim

https://www.goodreads.com/timprasil

Cindy, Ethan, Justin, James, and Tim, a warm welcome to each of you --sorry it's so belated in some cases! I guess we all tend to think the moderators will be the greeters, and so sit back and let them do it; but they both have a lot of irons in the fire right now, so more of us need to step up to the plate. :-) Hope you'll find this a rewarding group to be a part of!

Hello

1. My name is Mélisande
2. I’m still discovering the genre but loving it very much. I’m coming from the gothic side of the genre having started from loving Jane Austen to moving to the Bröntoe sisters and more and more into the darker side, following Ann Radcliffe amongst others. I love Poe and Neil Gaiman, Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde.

My discovering of my darker tendencies I suppose started as a child when I saw sleeping beauty from Disney and my favorite scene was the “dreamlike” sequence of the princess climbing those stairs with that ominous music and green light before pricking her finger. It struck a chord in me.

4. Well English is not my first language and I found that some of those texts could only be enjoyed in their originality and that’s why one could say I’m a late starter. I used to gorge myself on fairytales and myths and legends as a child. I even took Latin as a subject in middle school because language mattered so much to me.

Thank you

Melisande, a warm welcome to you; we're glad to have you in the group! I see that you're located in Ireland; is your first language Gaelic?

Hi Werne,
thank you for your welcome.
No, Ireland is my home now but I’m French originally. English is my third language after French and German. Unfortunately I tried to learn Gaelic but it is a very hard language to learn by oneself and I only managed a very basic level ( we’re talking playschool level ! ). I just never had the time to study it properly with life getting in the way and stuff. Maybe someday !

Foreign languages are hard to learn without a teacher! I studied German for a year in college with a teacher, and still can't really speak it; and Gaelic would be harder for someone like you or I to learn because (unlike French, English, or German), none of the words have cognates in our first language. (It's a beautiful language when you hear it spoken or sung, though!)

Hello, All! I simply wanted to introduce myself to the group. I feel that my bio says the most about me personally and professionally.

“Avoiding horror’s traditional icons and their premeasured fright potential, Simmons crafts impression packed sketches in which characters made vulnerable by overpowering emotions find their reality giving imperceptibly-but irresistibly-away to a disturbing surreality.”- Publisher’s Weekly

Publisher’s Weekly finds William Simmons…scary.

Once you enter his world, so will you.

You see, William Simmons knows that we feed the dark. We nourish it with our fears, our desires, our tragedies. And in turn, we are fed by it. We share it with the ones we love and the ones we hate.

You do, too, gentle reader.

For to not feed the dark is to be devoured by it…and so the darkness spreads….

William Simmons tried to escape the darkness for over a decade. Now he has abandoned himself to it…embraced it…and will share it with the world.

Simmons “…evokes both Ray Bradbury and Joyce Carol Oates.” – Peter Bell, All Hallows

William Simmons is an acclaimed author, critic, anthologist, and journalist specializing in supernatural horror fiction. Eight of his stories received ‘Honorable Mentions’ in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. His collection By Reason of Darkness received rave reviews from Cemetery Dance, All Hallows, and Publisher’s Weekly, who called him “a writer whose approach is both original and refreshingly unconventional.”

His first collection Becoming October sold out quickly upon release, and he collaborated on the Halloween collection Dark Harvest with author Paul Melznick. His stories have appeared in several venues, including Cemetery Dance, Flesh & Blood, Darkness Rising (1-9), Infinity Plus, Dark Discoveries, and many more. His poetry has appeared in Chizine, Gothic.net, Lullaby Hearse, Dead Cat Bouncing, etc.

Several bestselling authors have given him their unholy blessing, including the legendary late Hugh B. Cave and Tim Piccarilli. Graham Masterton, author of The Minatou, said Simmons “has the gift of making an ordinary day seem scary.” Nancy Kilpatrick, author of The Goth Bible, said “Simmons has a knack for constructing dark, creepy, introverted tales, full of obscure terrors that reflect nearly mythical realms.” And T.M. Wright, author of Strange Seed, compared Simmons’ horror fiction to “like being taken back forty years and discovering Poe for the first time, and M.R. James, and Shirley Jackson.”

An authority on supernatural and weird fiction, film, and folklore, Simmons has contributed reviews, essays, and scholarship to Rue Morgue, Publisher’s Weekly, Wormwood, Hellnotes, Gauntlet, Cemetery Dance, and others. His review columns include “Dark Devotions”, “Literary Lesions”, and “Folk Fears”. He contributed an introduction to Falling into Heaven, by Maynard & Sims, and his reviews have been blurbed for several books.

As a journalist, he created Our Ladies of Darkness, one of the earlier interview columns devoted to female genre authors, and Beyond the Fifth Dimension: The Twilight Zone Interviews, which spoke with surviving scribes of the influential television series. He also conducted two special chapbook length interviews with Richard Matheson and F. Paul Wilson, both for Gauntlet Press.
His reviews have been used as blurbs by Tartan Asian Extreme and he has contributed Liner Notes to DVD releases.

“His anthologies are carefully crafted, the stories bleeding into each other with seamless precision.” – Maynard & Sims, Demon Eyes.

As an editor, he has worked freelance for The Earwig Flesh Factory, Underworlds, and Dark Discoveries. He has several anthologies and single author collections in development for Shadow House Publishing, including the PENNY DREAD!FULS series, the SHILLING SHOCK!ERS series, and THE HORROR HALL OF FAME NOVELLAS series, which features THE TERROR & THE COMING OF THE TERROR by ARTHUR MACHEN, THE THING IN THE WOODS by HARPER WILLIAMS, THE BECKONING FAIR ONE by OLIVER ONIONS, A PHANTOM LOVER by VERNON LEE, and THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD by H.P. LOVECRAFT.

William has lived around the Catskill region of New York State for most of his life. He has worked as a paralegal, chef, teacher, housecleaner, bookseller, and a traumatic brain injury case manager. He is married with a daughter. He suffers from depression, anxiety, heart disease, and diabetes. He disappeared from the publishing world 13 years ago due to severe illness, personal tragedy, and inexplicable events that convinced him to stop writing horror fiction. Over a decade later, similar occurrences have prompted him to return.

While he won’t speak about that time in his life, he offers a warning: there may be little difference between real life and fiction. We exist to feed the dark and in turn are fed by it….

William loves to speak horror with fans and readers, and is available for podcast appearances and interviews. Contact him at Facebook (@WilliamsSimmonsAuthor), Twitter (@SimmonsofNight), Goodreads, and Amazon Author Central

. Name or Screen Name tammie
2. Who are your favorite classic horror writers?Bram Stoker
3. Why do you like classic horror?cause they are creepy
4. Anything else you'd like us to know about you i also like to read Ya and classic

Hi, I'm Steve or S. B. I'm a published author, write what I'd love to read: thrillers, horror, senior romance. Indie author, screwed by independent publishers; that's a horror story! The Demon Hunters: Succubus Resurrection This latest novel is a horror story. I like stories with high emotions and dynamic characters, as human nature was my area of expertise as a school psychologist and Clinical Social Worker. I don't like mindless horror, or graphic horror, violence without a unique plot. I grew up watching the black and white 1940s and 50s classic movies Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein with implied violence. Serial killers now bore me. creativity catches my interest. Any help I can be to fellow writers, glad to assist. www.redstoneauthor.com


The Demon Hunters

Hi, I’m Joe, and I love reading Poe, Shelly, and Stoker. I’m currently reading Lovecraft and want to read Merritt next. (I’ve read King and Clive, too, but I like the focus of this group on the older stuff!)