Kyriakos
08-24-2012, 11:45 AM
The horror carnival is back in lit town :)
You can suggest horror short stories, and if you want to share why you like them.
Here are my three suggestions, to start the thread:
3) The Horla - Guy De Maupassant.
The Horla (which is argued to be a term made for Hor and La, and meaning "being there") is a story De Maupassant wrote in three different versions. The most striking one possibly is also the largest, where the Horla is argued to be a metaphysical entity which migrated from the depths of Brazil to Paris, in a ship passing through the Seine. The narrator of the story is slowly becomming mad, and all the more frightened of the terrible, yet subtle and enigmatic, presence of the Horla.
2) The transition of Juan Romero - H.P.Lovecraft
In this short story Lovecraft presents a death which happens in a dream. The story in my view ows its great tone to the fact that we are not being decisively told if anything the narrator recollects is true. Juan Romero is said to have fallen to his death at a vast chasm in the mine he was working in, but all that is verified is that he died in his sleep.
1) In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka
The Penal colony is in my view Kafka's darkest story. It begins surrounded by sand hills, in the colony, in the location of the large machine the previous colony administrator had built. It only later on becomes obvious that the machine is there to punish someone, and moreover to actually kill him.
That the machine functions with imprinting ink onto the back of the condemned man seems to echo Kafka's own endless self reproaches, and his final tragic death which in his view was caused by his own words against himself, much like the machine prints the old paragraphs from the law of the colony.
You can suggest horror short stories, and if you want to share why you like them.
Here are my three suggestions, to start the thread:
3) The Horla - Guy De Maupassant.
The Horla (which is argued to be a term made for Hor and La, and meaning "being there") is a story De Maupassant wrote in three different versions. The most striking one possibly is also the largest, where the Horla is argued to be a metaphysical entity which migrated from the depths of Brazil to Paris, in a ship passing through the Seine. The narrator of the story is slowly becomming mad, and all the more frightened of the terrible, yet subtle and enigmatic, presence of the Horla.
2) The transition of Juan Romero - H.P.Lovecraft
In this short story Lovecraft presents a death which happens in a dream. The story in my view ows its great tone to the fact that we are not being decisively told if anything the narrator recollects is true. Juan Romero is said to have fallen to his death at a vast chasm in the mine he was working in, but all that is verified is that he died in his sleep.
1) In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka
The Penal colony is in my view Kafka's darkest story. It begins surrounded by sand hills, in the colony, in the location of the large machine the previous colony administrator had built. It only later on becomes obvious that the machine is there to punish someone, and moreover to actually kill him.
That the machine functions with imprinting ink onto the back of the condemned man seems to echo Kafka's own endless self reproaches, and his final tragic death which in his view was caused by his own words against himself, much like the machine prints the old paragraphs from the law of the colony.