|
|
|||||||
 |
|
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread | Display Modes | Translate |
04-06-2017
|
#11 | |||||||||||
Grimscribe
 Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 2,150
Quotes: 0
|
Re: Stories without Characters
Ligotti's The Nightmare Network.
| |||||||||||
|
Your fall should be like the fall of mountains. But I was before mountains. I was in the beginning, and shall be forever. The first and the last. The world come full circle. I am not the wheel. I am the hand that turns the wheel. I am Time, the Destroyer. I was the wind and the stars before this. Before planets. Before heaven and hell. And when all is done, I will be wind again, to blow this world as dust back into endless space. To me the coming and going of Man is as nothing.
|
||||||||||||
|
|
| 3 Thanks From: |
|
04-07-2017
|
#12 | |||||||||||
Grimscribe
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 2,532
Quotes: 0
|
Re: Stories without Characters
"The Red Brain" by Donald Wandrei.
| |||||||||||
|
|
|
| 4 Thanks From: |
|
04-07-2017
|
#13 | |||||||||||
Mannikin
 Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 26
Quotes: 0
|
Re: Stories without Characters
"The Barnum Museum" and "Cathay" by Steven Millhauser. Both stories are much more about the titular places than any characters that may be mentioned incidentally. I'm sure he has written others I can't recall because he is rather good at this sort of writing.
| |||||||||||
|
|
|
| 4 Thanks From: | dr. locrian (04-10-2017), miguel1984 (04-07-2017), Raul Urraca (04-10-2017), Speaking Mute (04-08-2017) |
|
04-08-2017
|
#14 | |||||||||||
|
Chymist
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 408
Quotes: 0
|
Re: Stories without Characters
The Cathedral of Mist - Paul Willems
The Doom That Came to Sarnath - H.P. Lovecraft A Perfect Vacuum & Imaginary Magnitude by Stanislaw Lem; the first is a collection of book reviews of non-existent books and the second is collection of forwards to non-existent (and occasionally impossible) books. A little more offbeat, but there's quite a bit of non-fiction that can be read as fiction without characters. I enjoy a lot of Utopian works such as Plato's Timaeus and Critias in this respect; Tommaso Campanella's City of the Sun is my recent favorite because the city envisioned is so bizarre and impractical. And then there's pseudoscientific books that are entertaining when read with a suspension of disbelief: von Daniken's Chariot of the Gods, Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision, Julian Jaynes Bicameral Mind, Ouspenky's The Fourth Dimension etc. | |||||||||||
|
|
|
| 3 Thanks From: |
|
04-09-2017
|
#15 | |||||||||||
Mystic
 Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 196
Quotes: 0
|
Re: Stories without Characters
Heaven forbid we forget our own Dr. Locrian, with such soon-to-be classics as "The Mindfulness of Horror Practice," "20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism," and a new favorite of mine "The Indoor Swamp." This last one really does a great job capturing the sense of absurdity and emptiness that characterizes the world in which we moderns live. This, I find to be truly horrifying. Great job, Jon!
| |||||||||||
|
Heaven and Earth are not humane.
They regard all things as straw dogs. The sage is not humane. He regards all people as straw dogs. |
||||||||||||
|
|
|
| 4 Thanks From: |
|
04-11-2017
|
#16 | ||||||||||||
Grimscribe
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 941
Quotes: 0
|
Re: Stories without Characters
| ||||||||||||
|
"In a less scientific age, he would have been a devil-worshipper, a partaker in the abominations of the Black Mass; or would have given himself to the study and practice of sorcery. His was a religious soul that had failed to find good in the scheme of things; and lacking it, was impelled to make of evil itself an object of secret reverence."
~ Clark Ashton Smith, "The Devotee of Evil" |
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
| 2 Thanks From: | Arthur Staaz (04-12-2017), dr. locrian (04-12-2017) |
|
| Bookmarks |
| Tags |
| characters, stories |
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Ligotti and Characters Devoid of Free Will | Arthur Staaz | General Discussion | 12 | 06-12-2016 08:31 PM |
| SIDESHOW AND OTHER STORIES | matt cardin | Limited Edition Listings | 26 | 05-24-2016 02:05 AM |
| 'Villain' characters. . . | trieffiewiles | Ligottian Films | 8 | 03-15-2011 11:41 AM |
| Deep Ones Stories? | theshaunz | Cthulhu Mythos | 19 | 06-05-2009 11:50 PM |
| "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" (Twilight Zone) | Nicole Cushing | General Discussion | 0 | 01-01-2009 09:12 PM |
Linear Mode
