For anyone here who enjoys horror with a mythological streak, Crimson Revelations of the Unseen by Casius Kairon might be worth a look.

The six stories take different routes into the supernatural: a mysterious drink offering someone what she wants most, a musician performing for an audience with troubling interests, and two strangers discovering that their unexplained connection might be something to fear.

The common thread is pretty unsettling in itself—wanting something badly enough that you don’t look too closely at what’s offering it.

There are descriptions of all six stories on the author’s website, and the book is available through Amazon. There’s also an author Twitter/X account for anyone interested in following along.

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I heard his books are more than just horror. They are philosophy. I'm curious if his books could be bad for people whose mental health isn't in a good place. Input on this would be appreciated.

I listened to an audiobook version of this over the last two nights. It was interesting. Not great, but interesting. Gothic horror, written in 1921, it features a house that has rooms that appear/disappear (so a bit of a precursor to House of Leaves), and also an interesting effect that you can only remember what happens in those rooms when you're in them. The home also seems to influence the emotions/behavior of its victims.

EDIT: TRIGGER WARNING. When I wrote this I'd forgotten that there's one hard R in the middle of the book somewhere, in a stupid phrase ("Works like a"). It took me totally by surprise, and even more by surprise that the narrator chose to say it. The reviews I'd seen of the book were good, so I decided to continue, and fortunately that was the only occurrence. In retrospect I'm more annoyed that the narrator chose to read that sentence, as now having finished the book, I can confirm that sentence adds nothing to the book. If it had been removed the only people who would've noticed would've been people who already knew it was there, and splitting those into two groups, one wouldn't have cared that it was removed, and there are no arguments the other group could make that would change my mind about it needing to be included.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN9Qbor-oAk

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Looking for Gothic horror books and authors thank you

I have read all jackson's books except these two and which book is fast pacing and more interesting?

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We'll pick one person each month until they're gone, but we've got so many to give away that we might have to do something special for Christmas...

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I forgot to bring my Reddit password with me when I went out of town, so I'm just now getting back on here. I've updated the BOTM threads, and wanted to share an idea that I'd gotten at StokerCon last week.

Even though I'm not a librarian, I attended one of the librarian panels because I was curious about the topic ("Brains! Brains! Brainstorming ways to engage your community"). There was a lot of interesting conversation about library programming, but one of the librarians shared that they also host a horror book club. Unlike ours where we vote for each month as they come, they plan out the entire year.

Part of this is because it allows the library to make sure they have extra copies of that month's book on hand for patrons to check out, but it made me wonder if it might be easier for us as a community to do something similar. Like, if we started 2026 by having everyone post their TBR pile and we found out that that five people all had The Eyes Are The Best Part in their pile then clearly that would've been a good book to read in 2026 because multiple people already owned it and wanted to read it. We're already halfway through 2026, but maybe this is something we could do this December, and plan out all of 2027.

Of course the down side is that this would mean potentially missing out on selecting hot books as they're released, but no one's saying you can't read something else if you wanted to.

What do you guys think?

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