Books like Silent Hill?
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I wouldn't be surprised if "The Mist", a short story in Stephen King's book Skeleton Crew inspired the concept of the mist-covered town. It doesn't hurt that his short stories are usually much better than his full-length novels, either. Highly recommended.
Stephen King isn't who comes to mind when I think of Silent Hill.
The guy who really created the genre of things that defy description but threaten sanity is H.P. Lovecraft. (My mother grew up in Providence, Rhode Island at the time he doing most of his work but she never heard of him until decades later.) He tapped into the fear of things that cannot be seen head on but you know they're out there and up to no good. By writing around the menace rather than giving it detail made it all the more frightening.
One thing I'll always remember that described Lovecraft's work was an entry in the old D&D Deities & Demigods book. This converted a lot of mythologies into precise stats and detail so that they could be integrated into a D&D game. I never played all that much but I enjoyed seeing how they handled the task. One of the section covered a bunch of the things that appeared in Lovecraft's work. They gave Cthulu a Charisma rating of -20, meaning that just looking at Cthulu meant you had to roll the dice to see if you went immediately insane.
King list Lovecraft as one of his greatest influences and wrote one story as a specific homage but I can't seem to google up the title at the moment.
The guy who really created the genre of things that defy description but threaten sanity is H.P. Lovecraft. (My mother grew up in Providence, Rhode Island at the time he doing most of his work but she never heard of him until decades later.) He tapped into the fear of things that cannot be seen head on but you know they're out there and up to no good. By writing around the menace rather than giving it detail made it all the more frightening.
One thing I'll always remember that described Lovecraft's work was an entry in the old D&D Deities & Demigods book. This converted a lot of mythologies into precise stats and detail so that they could be integrated into a D&D game. I never played all that much but I enjoyed seeing how they handled the task. One of the section covered a bunch of the things that appeared in Lovecraft's work. They gave Cthulu a Charisma rating of -20, meaning that just looking at Cthulu meant you had to roll the dice to see if you went immediately insane.
King list Lovecraft as one of his greatest influences and wrote one story as a specific homage but I can't seem to google up the title at the moment.
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[quote name='epobirs']Stephen King isn't who comes to mind when I think of Silent Hill.
The guy who really created the genre of things that defy description but threaten sanity is H.P. Lovecraft. (My mother grew up in Providence, Rhode Island at the time he doing most of his work but she never heard of him until decades later.) He tapped into the fear of things that cannot be seen head on but you know they're out there and up to no good. By writing around the menace rather than giving it detail made it all the more frightening.
One thing I'll always remember that described Lovecraft's work was an entry in the old D&D Deities & Demigods book. This converted a lot of mythologies into precise stats and detail so that they could be integrated into a D&D game. I never played all that much but I enjoyed seeing how they handled the task. One of the section covered a bunch of the things that appeared in Lovecraft's work. They gave Cthulu a Charisma rating of -20, meaning that just looking at Cthulu meant you had to roll the dice to see if you went immediately insane.
King list Lovecraft as one of his greatest influences and wrote one story as a specific homage but I can't seem to google up the title at the moment.[/quote]do you know any H.P. Lovecraft books that are like Silent Hill?
The guy who really created the genre of things that defy description but threaten sanity is H.P. Lovecraft. (My mother grew up in Providence, Rhode Island at the time he doing most of his work but she never heard of him until decades later.) He tapped into the fear of things that cannot be seen head on but you know they're out there and up to no good. By writing around the menace rather than giving it detail made it all the more frightening.
One thing I'll always remember that described Lovecraft's work was an entry in the old D&D Deities & Demigods book. This converted a lot of mythologies into precise stats and detail so that they could be integrated into a D&D game. I never played all that much but I enjoyed seeing how they handled the task. One of the section covered a bunch of the things that appeared in Lovecraft's work. They gave Cthulu a Charisma rating of -20, meaning that just looking at Cthulu meant you had to roll the dice to see if you went immediately insane.
King list Lovecraft as one of his greatest influences and wrote one story as a specific homage but I can't seem to google up the title at the moment.[/quote]do you know any H.P. Lovecraft books that are like Silent Hill?
[quote name='The Don']do you know any H.P. Lovecraft books that are like Silent Hill?[/quote]
H.P. Lovecraft wrote mostly short stories, so if you can find any books by him, they will likely be short story collections. Pretty much any of the good collections by him would contain something like what you are looking for, but if you want the title of some specific stories, I would look for "The Shadow Over Insmouth", "The Dunwich Horror", and, obviously, "The Call of Cthulhu".
H.P. Lovecraft wrote mostly short stories, so if you can find any books by him, they will likely be short story collections. Pretty much any of the good collections by him would contain something like what you are looking for, but if you want the title of some specific stories, I would look for "The Shadow Over Insmouth", "The Dunwich Horror", and, obviously, "The Call of Cthulhu".
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[quote name='Kayden']Arent there actually silent hill books?[/quote]
Yes there is... There's also a Play Novel game that came out sometime ago.
Yes there is... There's also a Play Novel game that came out sometime ago.
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[quote name='The Don'][quote name='Duo_Maxwell'][quote name='Kayden']Arent there actually silent hill books?[/quote]
Yes there is... There's also a Play Novel game that came out sometime ago.[/quote]
do you know what these books are called?[/quote]
Silent Hill with some kind of subtitle (such as Silent Hill: Dying Inside). Some are in a shorter graphic novle kind of style while a couple are more like regular novels. Just do a search on Amazon or something and it's bound to turn up.
Yes there is... There's also a Play Novel game that came out sometime ago.[/quote]
do you know what these books are called?[/quote]
Silent Hill with some kind of subtitle (such as Silent Hill: Dying Inside). Some are in a shorter graphic novle kind of style while a couple are more like regular novels. Just do a search on Amazon or something and it's bound to turn up.
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I've been partial to Clive Barker's Books of Blood series for a number of years now. Stephen King's work seems watered-down and mainstream by comparison.
[quote name='_heretic'][quote name='The Don']do you know any H.P. Lovecraft books that are like Silent Hill?[/quote]
H.P. Lovecraft wrote mostly short stories, so if you can find any books by him, they will likely be short story collections. Pretty much any of the good collections by him would contain something like what you are looking for, but if you want the title of some specific stories, I would look for "The Shadow Over Insmouth", "The Dunwich Horror", and, obviously, "The Call of Cthulhu".[/quote]
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html
H.P. Lovecraft wrote mostly short stories, so if you can find any books by him, they will likely be short story collections. Pretty much any of the good collections by him would contain something like what you are looking for, but if you want the title of some specific stories, I would look for "The Shadow Over Insmouth", "The Dunwich Horror", and, obviously, "The Call of Cthulhu".[/quote]
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html
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