hello everybody I am compiling a list of my favorite sci-fi/ dystopian/ horror stories (in no particular order) for @Dramacel but felt like it was easier to just make a post, so if anyone wants some good stories, they're RIGHT HERE:
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There Will Come Soft Rains. A Ray Bradbury classic. An automated house goes about its day, in a world with no one left to return home to it.
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Guts. Everybody knows Guts.
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Incarnations of Burned Children. A brief flash of a normal day gone horribly, horribly wrong. Most parents' worst nightmare. Read at your own risk.
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BLIT, What Happened at Cambridge IV, and Different Kinds of Darkness. A mathematician discovers images that "crash" the human mind, killing anyone who looks at it. Three very short, related stories about the implications on the world these images have.
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The Quiet Boy. Inspired the new movie Antlers. A teacher tries to help a student she suspects is being abused, but realizes the truth is much worse.
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I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Probably everyone knows this one too. An AI takes over the world, imprisoning and torturing a small group of survivors.
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The Jaunt. Stephen King. A scientist figures out how to teleport, but it comes with a consequence.
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Survivor Type. Also Stephen King. A corrupt doctor finds himself stranded on an island with no food and large amount of smuggled heroin.
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? By fellow dramatard
@JoyceCarolOates. A teenage girl is trapped home alone while a stranger tries to lure her out.
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The Soul of the Mark III Beast. Can you convince someone that a machine is sentient?
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The Human Chair. A craftsman creates a chair that no one has ever made before him, with a unique twist.
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In the Hills, the Cities. A couple touring through Eastern Europe stumbles upon a strange local tradition.
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They're Made Out of Meat. Maybe we were the aliens all along!
Ok that's all for now! I hope you enjoy them. Most of these are pretty short reads for the most part
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Snapshots:
There Will Come Soft Rains.:
Guts.:
Incarnations of Burned Children.:
BLIT,:
Cambridge IV,:
Different Kinds of Darkness.:
The Quiet Boy.:
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.:
The Jaunt.:
Survivor Type.:
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?:
The Soul of the Mark III Beast.:
The Human Chair.:
In the Hills, the Cities.:
They're Made Out of Meat.:
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Thank you for sharing. The Human Chair is a personal fetish of mine
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coward
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We're not just in your walls but your furniture as well.
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Like that fetishist who ran a porn site were women were tools and objects
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biqqa was named gord or some shi deadass ionn even frick with that kinda shi but i remember coz niqqa names GORD
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Foreal cuh
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don't disrepect gord or he come down beat us all up like that one flood
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Dramatards should also read Dostoyevsky's "The Gambler". It helps you understand what's happening to you when you compulsively goomble all of your DC away
!blackjack500
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I donβt want to have to come to terms with the fact that Iβve goombled all my DC away
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You're at nearly 35,000 in winnings, you spent it all you Chud.
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Itβs probably closer to about 25k total. I donβt know why but last time I gambled a lot it wasnβt deducting my losses. Lost a 5k bet and my score stayed the same.
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i read that!
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!slots500
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GET OUT! π§Ή
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They made a pretty decent point and click game for #6. As I recall, the author of the story does the voice of the AI in the game.
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yes, thatβs correct!
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'There will come soft rains' is recited by a robot in Fallout 3:
It also clips through the walls of the house pretty bad but jankiness and Bethesda go hand in hand.
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Imagine out of all of Bradbury's stories picking one that's so pleb-tier that it's in Fallout 3.
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I love the two short stories you picked. The jaunt was fricking creepy n I loved it π₯°
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iβm glad u liked it!!!
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They are made out of meat has a neat video adaptation, very Lynchy!
One of my favorite short horror stories is Other People by Neil Gaiman.
I share your taste in Stephen King, but I'd also nominate Grey Matter because I literally had a nightmare, woke up, and threw up after reading it as a child.
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iβll take a look!!
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No philip k peepee = cringe!!!
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recommend me some, the list is always growing
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i liked A Scanner Darkly best, but Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and Man in High Castle are all pretty famous ones. A lot of his short stories got adapted into movies too, like Second Variety (Scanners) and We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (Total Recall).
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Seconding PKD. Ubik and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch are good shit.
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Sadly, I was never schizo enough to read Ubik or Valis
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To fit the nasty theme of your other stories. I say "Faith of our fathers", Philip k peepees long form is over rated but this is a gem. Man meets the leader of the Party, https://genius.com/Philip-k-peepee-faith-of-our-fathers-annotated
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Gonna jump right on that π
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shut the frick up iβm not DEMANDING anyone read it,
@Dramacel asked for them
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don't let him get to you queen he's just jealous you're taller
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LLM wishes he was me
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Wish I was a schizophrenic bipolar? Howβd you know?
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Chad mental illness enjoyer
vs
Virgin politisperg poster
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VERY VERY good tastes Mr.Ted. "There Will Come Soft Rains" is one of my favorite short stories. If you like that one I recommend "All Summer in a Day" it's also written by Ray Bradbury and is just as good as his previous stories.
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thank you so much! iβll check it out!
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Wait is that gold
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Holy shit it is
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I love Edogawa Ranpo
Try Robert Aickman, OP
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Thanks for the shout out in your post
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youβre welcome!
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Oh nice, Iβll actually read these. I believe reading long form fiction is a waste of time on the level of playing video games, possibly worse since thereβs pretty much no way to earn money from reading fiction. But short form is fun.
This morning, Cum went to the park. I went with Coom. And Cum brought Coomer frisbee. At least I think it was Coomers. By the end of the day, Cum started throwing the frisbee to Cumself.
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let me know what you think!
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I've never been a big horror fan, but I once read a short story collection by Lovecraft that a friend of mine lended me
This one was my favorite for sure
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/pm.aspx
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iβll take a look!
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Thanks but ill stick to dr seuss
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reading guts
after reading i remember i read it many years ago, someone pasted it in entirety as an /r/askreddit comment and i laughed my butt off
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oh my god i love that
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See how often you post? I also really like The Lottery. If you haven't played the I Have No Mouth and Must Scream PC game, I highly recommend it. It even has Harlan Ellison as the voice of AM and expands the story and characters. Good shit.
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Game is partly written by Ellison too. It's pretty good, you could always just watch a walkthrough. It's just a good narrative in general.
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I like the Ellison that was written for some Yerka paintings iirc
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heres a jinjo ito manga strip that continues "the human chair" story.
https://imgur.com/gallery/lOlu2qV
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yess i LOVE junji ito!
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https://imgur.com/user/IIIsunshine
i really like long dream and hanging balloon
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Roll initiative
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You do seem like the kinda gal that canβt sit still for an entire full length book.
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itβs true but i am trying!
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I read 'I have no mouth' when I was way too young ( like 11 years old) and out of all of these it's stuck with me the most.
You literally root for the to commit suicide.
Good list
@TED_SIMP
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Between Two Fires is a very good horror story. I'll throw that recommendation into the mix.
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thanks!
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I remember reading the jaunt back in middle school. I went through like a 3 year Stephen king phase where I read everything the man ever wrote.
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In the Hills, The Cities is fantastic. Clive Barker was on the case back then.
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