Strange Writings

[HollyGolightly]

So, who do you think writes really weird stuff? I know many people may say King writes weirdness, but he makes perfect sense to me. Two writers that I love to read, but they tend to write some unusual stuff: T.C. Boyle and George Saunders. GS has a new collection (well, new to me) that I am aching to read. I have a collection of T.C. Boyle stories that I love to revisit. Short stories are my reading thing, aside from King.

Share with me some other weirdness.

 

[ghost19]

Brian Lumley's "Necroscope" series...just...plain....weird....

 

[HollyGolightly]

Brian Lumley's "Necroscope" series...just...plain....weird....

Hi ghost! I must check him out then. How's your weather? Did you get all the ice earlier that we are just getting now?

 

[blunthead]

Virtually everything Dean Koontz has written which I've read is the definition of strange.

 

[Grandpa]

I had trouble with the Benjy part in The Sound and the Fury. Unfortunately, it was required reading, and I slogged through, just wanting to say that I had read it and get to the class discussion where I'd hear what I needed to in order to pass the test. But I had it pegged as weird which, in the early '70s, is saying something.

 

[HollyGolightly]

Virtually everything Dean Koontz has written which I've read is the definition of strange.

He scared me with a book about an abandoned amusement park that was the lair of a serial killer, I can't remember the name. And then he wrote something very similar to The Mist which I actually liked, but it seemed a bit too much like SK.

If you've never read Boyle or Saunders, I highly recommend them. They aren't weird in a scary way. ha, I just read that Saunders 10th of December was published in 2012, and I'm still calling it new. Where have I been?

 

[kingricefan]

Anything by Lovecraft....

 

[ALOT]

Virtually everything Dean Koontz has written which I've read is the definition of strange.

I'm reading HIDEAWAY right now. Very creepy, very weird, and very scary. Too much for me I'm afraid.

 

[ghost19]

Hi ghost! I must check him out then. How's your weather? Did you get all the ice earlier that we are just getting now?

I haven't read the Necroscope books in quite a while. First couple of books in the series, I was left scratching my head but couldn't stop mid-series.....a few books later, was still scratching my head and felt like I needed a shower. I can't remember how many books there are total, but I still remember thinking about the series for a long time afterwards. The whole series is bizarre to say the least. Closest thing I can compare it to is maybe Clive Barker?

Got quite a bit of ice today, enough for the city to cancel non-essential personnel (me) at 11am this morning so got to hang out at the house and do some reading, which I'll take any day of the week.

 

[GNTLGNT]

....Clive Barker....gonzo weird...

 

[Out of Order]

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller.

 

[williemeikle]

I find the Necrosope books pretty straight forward in a scifi/fantasy/horror hybrid kind of way - they remind me a lot of old pulp writers who liked to mix things up, folks like A E Merritt come to mind.

For seriously, spookily weird I look to folks like Robert Aikman, Ramsey Campbell, Tanith Lee, Thomas Ligotti and, more recently, Joe Pulver, Nathan Ballingrud and Simon Strantzas.

 

[HollyGolightly]

I haven't read the Necroscope books in quite a while. First couple of books in the series, I was left scratching my head but couldn't stop mid-series.....a few books later, was still scratching my head and felt like I needed a shower. I can't remember how many books there are total, but I still remember thinking about the series for a long time afterwards. The whole series is bizarre to say the least. Closest thing I can compare it to is maybe Clive Barker?

Got quite a bit of ice today, enough for the city to cancel non-essential personnel (me) at 11am this morning so got to hang out at the house and do some reading, which I'll take any day of the week.

Yay you! We're iced and snowed in here quite nicely. I'm hopeful that the kids stayed up all night long and will sleep until at least noon. Lucky for me there is work I can do from home, so I'm actually working a bit right now.

....Clive Barker....gonzo weird...

Agreed, he freaked me out about 25 years ago with Books of Blood.

TC and GS are not scary weird, just weird-weird.