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i’ve got some sort of brain disease for rust cohle
I don’t know anything about philosophy, so I’m including what a lot of people mention in discussions about Rust and direct inspirations cited by the creator.
Optional books include other Southern Gothic stories / stories with similar vibes to season 1.
I don’t know anything about philosophy, so I’m including what a lot of people mention in discussions about Rust and direct inspirations cited by the creator.
Optional books include other Southern Gothic stories / stories with similar vibes to season 1.
Challenge Books
1
The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers
the OG. The first 4 stories are the only ones that actually contain any King in Yellow.
2
(bonus)
An Inhabitant of Carcosa
Ambrose Bierce
More of an inspiration for Chambers than TD, but is too short and sweet to not include.
(bonus)
Between Here and the Yellow Sea
Nic Pizzolatto
less of an actual inspiration of TD and more just curiosity about how his writing evolved
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Thomas Ligotti
Cited by creator as a direct inspiration
Whispers III
David Drake, Charles E. Fritch, Stephen E. Fabian, Vincent Napoli, David Campton, Jean Darling, Lee Brown Coye, Ramsey Campbell, Fritz Leiber, Hugh B. Cave, William F. Nolan, Steve Sneyd, Phyllis Eisenstein, Roger Zelazny, Dennis Etchison, Karl Edward Wagner, Frank Belknap Long, Stuart David Schiff, John Stewart
(bonus)
On The Will In Nature
Arthur Schopenhauer
guy is a eugenicist and a total misogynist. and an antisemite. however people who know more about philosophy than me cite him as a more accurate representation of Rust’s pessimism than Nietzsche so *shrug*.
