Can't speak for each author, but Richard Matheson, Shirley Jackson and Peter Straub are great suggestions.
10 Horror Authors To Read If You Love Stephen King
King has a vast catalog of books to choose from that could take a horror lover years to get through, yet some may be searching for other horror authors that can reproduce the same magic as King. Fortunately, there are lots of writers in the horror scene who are publishing incredible books that are just as creepy as any standard King book. On top of that, some of these authors are King collaborators, giving them an even greater connection to the horror legend. All in all, these authors are worth checking out for those readers who love being scared.
A mortally wounded astronaut awakens in the upper atmosphere after a catastrophic event.
Joe Loftus’s 2022 short Still Up There will creep inside your senses and linger far longer than you desire.
An astronaut on the brink of death regains consciousness in the vast emptiness of space. Disoriented and struggling to piece together how he got there, he is confronted by the sight of his own severed arm eerily floating past him — almost as if it’s waving. But is it really his arm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFcerjbDuv0
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Downvoters!?! I always thought the arrow ⬇️ was the button to scroll down the page!!! My God ..all those dislikes! 😨
I love this movie. The atmosphere is great. The background sounds manage to get under your skin and keep your tension up.
Loneanimator Aka Bluworm is an amazing artist. I suggest everyone to check the stop-motion short films he published on his youtube channel
I agree. A bit less horror and more philosophical than I was expecting, still a nice story with a very interesting plot.
As a caucasian hetero male, i really wish to be liberated from many things, like:
Patriarchal blindness - History Amnesia - Ignorance of objective statistics - Brainwashing fables of Alpha-Beta hierarchies - The very concept of hierarchy - Incapacity to accept diversity - Incapacity to accept constructive criticism ... i would really like to liberate my mind from all this old rusted chains and fly free.
Hundrends of documented parasites who can literally eat us from the inside, but no ...spiders are the fucking problem.
Is your mind just a parasite on your physical body? | Blindsight novel by Peter Watts
A new science fiction novel does a masterful job of crafting a narrative from an idea long discussed in philosophy: Is the mind needed?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22134494
> Blindsight is a unique kind of first-contact novel. Its focus is not on humanity’s first meeting with an alien civilization, but rather that this civilization is highly intelligent, yet lacks consciousness. > > - What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness? > > - What if there is nothing special about self-awareness? > > - What if it is just evolutionary dead weight, bound to disappear soon? > > The idea rests on machine metaphors for life and mind, which strike this columnist as profoundly mistaken. > > > ! > > https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48484.Blindsight > > > ! > > Blindsight Sci-fi Short Film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkR2hnXR0SM > > The Horrible Truth About Consciousness | Blindsight
Is your mind just a parasite on your physical body? | Blindsight novel by Peter Watts
A new science fiction novel does a masterful job of crafting a narrative from an idea long discussed in philosophy: Is the mind needed?
Blindsight is a unique kind of first-contact novel. Its focus is not on humanity’s first meeting with an alien civilization, but rather that this civilization is highly intelligent, yet lacks consciousness.
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What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?
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What if there is nothing special about self-awareness?
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What if it is just evolutionary dead weight, bound to disappear soon?
The idea rests on machine metaphors for life and mind, which strike this columnist as profoundly mistaken.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48484.Blindsight
Blindsight Sci-fi Short Film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkR2hnXR0SM
Analog Horror | PREHISTORIC EMERGENCE by AZUNStudios
Playlist on YT - (Episode: 3 | Status: Ongoing)
Prehistoric Emergence is a new analog horror series that explores the sudden reappearance of prehistoric creatures, which are emerging from mysterious holes in the ocean and on land. This phenomenon poses a significant threat to both human life and the ecosystem.
Cthulhu Avatar Series :: Lovecraft meets Grimshaw | Oliver Wetter
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/o2qd5m
The "Cthulhu Avatar Series" is an artistic project that aims to blend the eerie and cosmic horror themes of H.P. Lovecraft's works with the atmospheric and moody landscapes characteristic of John Atkinson Grimshaw's paintings from the early 1900s.
>A lane by moonlight — John Atkinson Grimshaw
EXTRA
Revisit of the the ninth wave by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 – 1900)
I can't agree more.