Friday 5 August 2022

Alrightreads: Creepy

Various, The Creepypasta Collection: Modern Urban Legends You Can't Unread

Collected 2016 / Audiobook / 301 pages / Various

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Variable works by passionate weirdos, collected in a book with credited authors, like horror stories would be, but we mustn't call them that.

Faves: Max Lobdell's 'Teeny Tiny' & 'Licks from a Bear,' Matt Dymerski's 'Psychosis'


Various, The Creepypasta Collection, Volume 2: 20 Stories. No Sleep.

Collected 2017 / Audiobook / 304 pages / Various

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Distinctly cheesier and less accomplished than the first helping, which is more in the spirit, really.

Faves: Ashley Franz Holzmann's 'Slumber Party,' Vincent V. Cava's 'Neptune's Fancy'


Various, The Best of /r/LetsNotMeet, Vol. 1: The First Four Years

Collected 2015 / Ebook / 42 pages / Various

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"Creepy" reddit has long been my read-only trashy magazine fix, but it doesn't adapt well to print, especially when the volume is as slight as the content. A few classics though.


Various, No Sleep: The Creepiest Tales, Real Life Encounters, and Paranormal Experiences Contributed by the Reddit Community

Collected 2015 / Ebook / 111 pages / Various

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Not a bad collection, and the less worthwhile posts are short and skimmable, but if you're going to copy and paste a bunch of favorite posts, why not share your whole archive? I should have kept my own.


Jan Pieńkowski, Haunted House

1979 / Ebook / 12 pages / Poland

*****

The pop-up book perfected, around the level of WereBears on the list of things I wish I'd had as a child. Sadly too irresponsibly disturbing to add to the family library just yet, but bookmarked for future corruption.