I just read The Willows and holy fuck was that a creepy tale. If you don't know anything about it it's a sort of cosmic horror tale of unexplainable phenomenons surrounding some hapless campers. The obvious go-to is HP Lovecraft but I'm hoping I could get some recommendations of other similar authors or stories or just good horror in general, preferably audio books because I never find myself sitting down doing anything but drawing
Horror Recommendations?
Xavier Barnes
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Adrian Gray
Try some Clark Ashton Smith, his Penguin collection for example. Comfiest horror you'll ever read, if I am allowed such a blunt oxymoron. Prepare your dictionary.
Benjamin Perry
Read The Wendigo too
Angel King
That was a weird one: a superb first half about the nature and an almost comically bad and gringy second half about the monster itself.
Jonathan Adams
Try reading Robert Aickman. He's underread. He's skilled at writing the "what the hell happened" of nebulous horror.
Eli Sanchez
Try The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen, nice and short, spooky as fuck.
Camden Rodriguez
Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E Howard are both very much like Lovecraft.
Henry Green
Anything by Brian Evenson and Laird Barron.
Jace Ward
I think what you're looking for is called 'Weird fiction', a subgenre of horror
Unexplainable creepiness, HP Lovecraft is the founder you could say.
From the modern writers Laird Barron and Thomas Ligotti are probably the best ones. My favorite writer who's only barely connected to this genre is Bruno Schulz.
Jeff VanderMeer (I liked his Annihilation) put out a very nice compendium of weird fiction a few years ago called The Weird, more than a thousand pages with stories from most authors mentioned in this thread, that one should be a great starting point for you!
John Bell
I second Jeff Vandermeer's Weird collection. (It includes stories by many of the writers mentioned in this thread)
Another editor to look out for is ST Joshi, he's the guy behind the penguin classics weird/horror releases. (Including the Clark Ashton Smith one mentioned earlier)
Michael Cisco is a contemporary weird fiction author worth a look, I recommend starting with "Animal Money"