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In the mood to read something weird.

  • 17-04-2015 12:56AM
    #1
    Melisandre121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭


    I'm in the mood for reading something interesting, preferably something weird or unnerving, like a list of unsolved mysteries or the like.. anyone have anything interesting they've found they'd like to share? Come on guys, dig deep into those bookmarks.


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  • #2
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame


    Codex Seraphinianus, I am possibly one of the very few to have read it and even fewer to have actually finished it. It inspired an awesome online handle of mine for years. If you say you have read it I know you are lying...probably....

    It's weird......

    It's not like you will find it tonight though???? Very visual.


  • #3
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame




  • #4
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Necronomicon by HP Lovecraft

    Naked lunch by william s.buroughs


  • #5
    a postere
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 194 ✭✭a postere


    Melisandre121 wrote: »
    I'm in the mood for reading something interesting, preferably something weird or unnerving, like a list of unsolved mysteries or the like.. anyone have anything interesting they've found they'd like to share? Come on guys, dig deep into those bookmarks.

    Any of the manifestos of any of the Irish political parties.
    Bargain price too.


  • #6
    Arsemageddon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Arsemageddon


    A case known to every keen student of the law (1884)...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens

    Has striking paralles with Edgar Allen Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narrative_of_Arthur_Gordon_Pym_of_Nantucket

    Well worth reading


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  • #7
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame


    Anything by Harlan Ellison...particularly I have no mouth and I must scream.

    The world needs people like him.

    Brilliant writer not just weird but real substance there. ANYTHING by him.


  • #8
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame


    the evasion_kid wrote: »
    Necronomicon by HP Lovecraft

    Naked lunch by william s.buroughs
    Love me some Lovecraft!:)


  • #9
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame


    Arsemageddon wrote: »
    A case known to every keen student of the law...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens

    Has striking paralles with Edgar Allen Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narrative_of_Arthur_Gordon_Pym_of_Nantucket

    Well worth reading
    That looks very interesting.


  • #10
    Arsemageddon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Arsemageddon


    the evasion_kid wrote: »
    Necronomicon by HP Lovecraft

    ......in Cthuluh dead Ryleh waits dreaming.

    Good night, sweet dreams all.


  • #11
    Melisandre121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭Melisandre121


    LadyAthame wrote: »

    Oh wow, I'm getting this.


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  • #12
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame


    Arsemageddon wrote: »
    ......in Cthuluh dead Ryleh waits dreaming.

    Good night, sweet dreams all.
    Ssh do not speak it's name.


  • #13
    Arsemageddon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Arsemageddon


    LadyAthame wrote: »
    Ssh do not speak it's name.

    Doh!


  • #14
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    The Enigma Of Amigara Fault, by Junji Ito

    It's read from right to left, so might take a little getting used to at first, click the image to go to the next page.

    Enjoy! ;)


  • #15
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame


    Melisandre121 wrote: »
    Oh wow, I'm getting this.
    There is a 2013 edition. Check out the Voynich manuscript.

    I have been poeticseraphim, the seraphinian , Lady Seraphin all inspired by this book. Serafini said once the writing was asemic. That resonated with me.

    He wanted readers to feel as children do when seeing books for the first time. He wanted to bypass people's intelligence. You grow another type of intelligence. It seemed so organic to me. Two people having sex gradually morphing into a crocodile. Perfect. Shakespeare called sex the beast with two backs.


  • #16
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Op just continue to read all the threads in after hours, if its weird you want it's weird you will get!


  • #17
    Kung Lao
    Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭Kung Lao


    You should Wikipedia or Google some of the following:

    The Dyatlov Pass incident

    Tamam Shud

    Wow! Signal

    Hinterkaifeck

    Elisa Lam

    The last one has some particularly creepy videos on YouTube.


  • #18
    Melisandre121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭Melisandre121


    Kung Lao wrote: »
    You should Wikipedia or Google some of the following:

    The Dyatlov Pass incident

    Tamam Shud

    Wow! Signal

    Hinterkaifeck

    Elisa Lam

    The last one has some particularly creepy videos on YouTube.

    Tamam Shud is one of those mysteries that made me feel really genuinely creeped out. And now I've creeped myself out thinking about it. Why do I always gravitate to scary things at night time!?


  • #19
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame


    Links234 wrote: »
    The Enigma Of Amigara Fault, by Junji Ito

    It's read from right to left, so might take a little getting used to at first, click the image to go to the next page.

    Enjoy! ;)
    Wow! Neverf become attached to a hole because of loneliness that will only torture you and stretch you to it's own shape as the hole becomes gaping and wider. It only calls out because it's so empty!


  • #20
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Yeah, Junji Ito is a weird one alright, gets under your skin in a big way. Amazing artist but utter nightmare fuel. I watched a movie based on one of his stories years ago and I just... :o

    But hey, OP wanted something weird, here's an entire shipment of weird! Thanks for the nightmares Junji! ;)


  • #21
    SharkWhale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭SharkWhale


    In Europe by Geert Mak or past & present a journal of historical studies number 194 published by Oxford University Press for the past and present society.


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  • #22
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream


  • #23
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    The past week I've been falling asleep to Jeremy Irons reading me a different chapter of Nabokov's Lolita each night.

    That's been.. weird I suppose.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Slie84kMZE


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Some stuff in this thread, Russian Sleep Experiment, Elisa Lam, Anansi Goatman etc.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057412840


  • #25
    GerB40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Not only is it a great series of books with a fascinating story and relatable characters but it is by far the weirdest piece of fiction I've personally read. I don't even like Stephen King books that much but I can't recommend this series enough. And if it's weird you're looking for The Dark Tower just gets weirder and weirder, as well as better..


  • #26
    floggg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,821 ✭✭✭floggg


    Melisandre121 wrote: »
    I'm in the mood for reading something interesting, preferably something weird or unnerving, like a list of unsolved mysteries or the like.. anyone have anything interesting they've found they'd like to share? Come on guys, dig deep into those bookmarks.

    The Bible?


  • #27
    floggg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,821 ✭✭✭floggg


    Arsemageddon wrote: »
    A case known to every keen student of the law (1884)...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens

    Has striking paralles with Edgar Allen Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narrative_of_Arthur_Gordon_Pym_of_Nantucket

    Well worth reading

    I got it mixed up with Donoghue v Stephenson in my head, and started wondering why the hell anybody would write a book about a snail in a lemonade bottle!


  • #28
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame


    floggg wrote: »
    The Bible?
    Actually I someone once read mass over the phone in the wee hrs. That was weird.


  • #29
    fxotoole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭fxotoole


    Melisandre121 wrote: »
    I'm in the mood for reading something interesting, preferably something weird or unnerving, like a list of unsolved mysteries or the like.. anyone have anything interesting they've found they'd like to share? Come on guys, dig deep into those bookmarks.

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_deaths

    /thread


  • #30
    fxotoole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭fxotoole


    Actually there's a thread on boards about unsolved mysteries with some really weird abstract bizarre **** in it:

    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/post/94150514


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  • #31
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Read the papers.


  • #32
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    If you want to keep it online, read this:
    http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html


  • #33
    The Dark Side
    Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭The Dark Side


    GerB40 wrote: »
    The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Not only is it a great series of books with a fascinating story and relatable characters but it is by far the weirdest piece of fiction I've personally read.

    It's a pretty straight-forward fantasy series.


  • #34
    The Dark Side
    Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭The Dark Side


    Maybe try the Bas Lag series by China Mieville.


  • #35
    Hoop66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    You could read "Geek Love" by Katherine Dunne.

    The tale of a family of carny folk, building their own freak show by experimenting on the mother when she's pregnant


  • #36
    MajorMax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭MajorMax


    The necromancer series by Brian Lumley

    The charlie parker series by John Connolly

    Anything by China Melvielle


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  • #37
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    Anything written by Kazuo Ishiguro. Brilliant books but maybe not weird in the way you'd like.


  • #38
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    hidinginthebush wrote: »
    If you want to keep it online, read this:
    http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html

    What the F .......................i am reading this now in work.................tbh i am slightly freaked out. had to take abreak and get a coffee

    EDIT .....boo at the ending


  • #39
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,729 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Couple of very odd but brilliant books I've read over the last fee years.
    Möbius Dick by Andrew Crumey, a non linear book.about different timelines, universes, mental health and a time machine.
    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobius_Dick

    Gun with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
    A film noir ride into a quite mad future, with hard boiled detectives and a culture that demands all must be elevated to sentience that can be, including babies and animals, seriously messed up stuff.
    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun,_with_Occasional_Music

    Black Easter by James Blish.
    No description surely needed.
    Everyone should own a copy of this, to hell with The Hobbit! (pun intended)
    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Easter


  • #40
    the_monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭the_monkey


    LadyAthame wrote: »

    I like the reviewer saying - "Is it Art, Fantasy, Science Fiction? "

    I'll stop him there and add - "It's pure drivel" , it's a strange picture book basically, unreadable ... wtf...


  • #41
    GerB40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    hidinginthebush wrote: »
    If you want to keep it online, read this:
    http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html

    Thats a great little read. The author seemed so genuine and the build up of tension is fantastic. I actually believed it until the "Joe" part which I thought went a bit too far. And that ending.... I pressed next around ten times before realising what was going on. Still though, an enjoyable tale.


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  • #42
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    Anything written by Kazuo Ishiguro. Brilliant books but maybe not weird in the way you'd like.

    Except for Norwegian Wood. I liked it, but it's a very straightforward story compared to his usual stuff.


  • #43
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Wierdest and greatest book I've read is Infinite Jest. I'm actually reading it again for the 3rd or 4th time. It's a behemoth but well worth it.


  • #44
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    LadyAthame wrote: »
    Codex Seraphinianus, I am possibly one of the very few to have read it and even fewer to have actually finished it. It inspired an awesome online handle of mine for years. If you say you have read it I know you are lying...probably....

    It's weird......

    It's not like you will find it tonight though???? Very visual.

    I took a look at the video you posted - the guy says it's published in a language nobody can understand - so how did you read it? There's also an Italian translation? what did they translate?

    Looks like an expensive pile of ****e to be quite honest!


  • #45
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    Except for Norwegian Wood. I liked it, but it's a very straightforward story compared to his usual stuff.


    You're confusing authors!


  • #46
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    I always find this site good for killing sometime

    http://sometimes-interesting.com/


  • #47
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    You kill sometimes? :O

    I can only second the recommendation for Naked Lunch. It really changes your entire view of the Human Condition. Try reading it with Leonard Cohen CDs on shuffle / repeat in the back ground too.

    If you do not want to get TOO weird - just somewhat off kilter - hit some Jack Kerouac or some of the other Beat Generation authors.


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