The Aviary

I started listening to The Magnus Archives yesterday - played episode 4 in my car on the way to work - and am enjoying it so far. It is precisely the right kind of spooky for me.

However. I am aware that eventually there will be some kind of continuing plot and characters and I'm sure I will also enjoy that but right now, it's a modern podcast version of Quiet, Please, with just one voice reading me unrelated spooky first-person stories with no explanation of the spooky bits* and I am worried that the overplot will give me too much explanation and ruin things.

This is, of course, the problem with any long work of horror. The author eventually feels that answers have to be provided which inevitably diminishes the horror. I think that's why horror is the only genre in which I really enjoy short stories, because they allow for a lack of explanation.

I mean, I'm going to keep listening to The Magnus Archives, as it's quite good, but I am braced for that inevitable small disappointment.







*Favorite unexplained spooky bit so far: the guy in episode three eating his notebooks.

Would anyone like to give me a horror recommendation? I am looking for something more spooky than gory and some sort of cosmic Lovecraftian mindfuck-y whatsit would not go amiss.

I am up for pretty much all media, so long as it is acquirable via the interwebs.