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Ligotti, Campbell, Klein (when he was writing), and Cisco are probably closer to being contemporary Lovecrafts.

Literally the only reason I started reading it, but it's so fucking boring.
Id at least be content, if there was some descriptive killing in the meantime, but it's just rambling.

That's King for you.

Thought bout just dling the audiobook or something, so I could just idle it while doing other things.
The narrations is so slow though

>audiobooks
Disgusting. But I wouldn't blame you. It's King. The self-proclaimed Big Mac and fries of literature.

I was only captivated, really captivated in a bored housewife on an airplane type of way, when Mike has the encounter with the giant bird. I read it on the train, and didn't finish the chapter by the time I got to work, and I was yearning to pick it up again and finish it. But now I'm farther along and it's tedious again. The problem is there are too many goddamn characters. I'm at the part where they all return to Derry as adults and they go their separate ways, and that means seven separate chapters all in the same pattern. It's a slog.

The best parts though are the recounts of the murders that happen outside the main story. Those are legitimately creepy, probably because they are so brief.

If King is the HPL of our era then Clive Barker is the Clark Ashton Smith of our era. So no.

Best horror writers? Good collections to into Lovecraft?