#Oscar Lindqvist

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Debbie by Oscar Lindqvist for Wonderland Magazine March 2024. Makeup by Alina Samsonova-Makohin.

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The more of the fandom I see, the more I think people need to read some gothic horror and at least one short story dated before the 2000's.

Characters are not here to be Jesus, they are here to tell a story. Interesting stories usually center on some type of conflict, and that conflict is usually bad for Someone if not Everyone. Many stories in general were just "watch this dude fuck up in every way possible". In fact, there's an entire subclass of narrator called the Observer that exists to have zero personality so we can sit behind his eyes and watch fucked up shit go down (if I recall right, The Great Gastby does this).

While the Tarnished has a bit more agency than a traditional observer character and we end up outright influencing the course of the story, we very much DO show up just to stare at Marika's family drama. That's about as classical as it gets.

For more stories where everyone has a problem and no one is safe, there might be incest, there's usually fucked up immoral sex in general, there's at least one murder, and someone's trying to thematically become God, I recommend:

GRRM's writing because he was involved.

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter just because it's really good.

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist.

Literally any given myth or classical play, but particularly Oedipus Rex and The Bacchae.

The Twilight Zone.

The Warrior Cats series by Erin Hunter.

The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare.

I, Claudius, both the TV show and the novel by Robert Graves.

You don't have to LIKE the abuse and the violence and the systemic issues and the incest. In fact, that's frequently the entire point. The point is to go "wow that's fucked up" with a side of "how does it turn out, what do they do next?". We like these things for the same reason people watch car crashes and the Victorians watched executions for sport. Fucked up things happen in real life, and reading about them in fiction is interesting.

If you're expecting people to be totally morally correct in a Fromsoft game, you're in the wrong game. If the most thoughtful thing you have to say about Elden Ring is to complain that it's full of incestuous femboy molesters or whatever, I guess it sucks to have bad taste. Do what sparks joy for you and get out of my house, you literally don't have to play it.

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Hi I don’t know if you’ve mentioned it before but I would love to know what books you’ve read and what ones you really enjoyed. Seeing as I really like your writing i think I might like some of ur book recs!

i love love love talking about books, anon, so i never get sick of the question!!! <3

my own very personal fave books ever:

les miserables (victor hugo), the vampire chronicles series (anne rice), the discworld series (terry pratchett), the picture of dorian gray (oscar wilde), we have always lived in the castle (shirley jackson - i also love her short story collections a lot!!!), let the right one in (john ajvide lindqvist), the chrestomanci series (diana wynne jones), anything by laura purcell, the valdemar series (mercedes lackey)

books/authors i've read recently (slash within the past few years) and have really enjoyed:

the regency faerie tales series (olivia atwater), spinning silver (naomi novik), deathless (catherynne m valente), the bell at sealey head (patricia a mckillip - i've been reading a lot of mckillip and really enjoying it!), bitterthorn (kat dunn), the salt grows heavy (cassandra khaw).

if you want recs in specific genres or about specific things i can help with that too, these are just generic recommendations! my personal interests tend to be fantasy, horror, and especially historical variants in both! i love fairy tale retellings and gothic vibes and vampires and fae beings. (i also love recommendations from other people too!)

i am currently reading (and have been high key struggling with) silver nitrate by silvia moreno-garcia; i've been recommended her work a lot but if more of them are like this i'm not sure if i'll enjoy them! still, i will persevere!!!!

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It's Friday the 13th! Here's a list of 13 of my favorite scary books.

(If you have any particular triggers you're concerned about, feel free to send me a message about any of these! Please do not risk putting yourself in a bad place! I never mind giving a heads up on this kind of thing.)

General trigger warnings: sexual content, pedophilia, rape/sexual assault, extreme violence, deaths of children, deaths of animals, physical abuse, pregnancy, gore.

1. Let's deal with the reigning monarch first - Stephen King. I'll just let him have one entry for several books, since the guy has written 18 million.

1a. It. I read It, and then immediately read it again, for the first time when I was 12 years old. I carried the book around like a Bible. Not only is it truly scary as hell (the history, the deaths of Edward Corcoran and Patrick Hockstetter, and overall the idea that some things, no matter how far you run, you cannot escape - only try desperately, again, to destroy), it also has some of King's most solid characters, and an ending that isn't a total crap-out. He couldn't write great female characters then or now, but Beverly is far from his worst. And there is that scene near the end, but it's brief and easy enough to skip. 1,200 pages of story managed to work when I was a kid, and they still work now, even looking at the whole differently.

1b. Any of King's short story anthologies. I'd say my favorites are Night Shift, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, and Everything's Eventual, but they're all pretty great. The guy really shines in short form. And I dare you to read "The Jaunt" and not feel at least a little freaked out at the end.

1c. Different Seasons - the stories are far less supernatural, and it works. The four novellas are all tight, and all very different. Apt Pupil is one of the creepiest things I've ever read, and there's nary a ghost or beastie to be found.

1d. Christine, Pet Sematary, Salem's Lot, Desperation/The Regulators - the opposite of the above. These are pure supernatural terror, and a hell of a lot of fun. If Different Seasons is the drama looking for award nominations, these are the slasher flicks you watch with your friends while screaming at the characters and tossing popcorn at the screen. (Cujo's another one, but since it's rabies, it's a little more real-world.)

2. Let the Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist - an absolutely terrifying book where the scariest thing is not the vampire. Oscar and Eli are one of the sweetest platonic love stories I've ever read, and the bad guys absolutely get what's coming to them. It's a bleak look at suburban childhood - and desperation for something more.

3. In the Miso Soup, Ryu Murakami - this book sets you up for an uncomfortable time, and only gets worse. Short, tight, and terrifying. Murakami is more well-known for Audition, but I found this one far more disturbing. His stuff generally is not for those with sensitive stomachs.

4. Battle Royale, Koushon Takami - the movie is good. The book is better. Once you get past the slightly rocky translation, this one's going to have your adrenaline going from the very beginning. There's not going to be any Hunger Games-esque changing of rules: of 42 students, only one can survive. (I do not recommend the manga. It's mostly torture porn - sometimes literally. It's more disgusting than frightening, and while that doesn't automatically make me dislike a book - see just above this one! - I felt here that it was an unnecessary addition that actually draws away from the horror of kids forced to kill one another in favor of shock value.)

5. Ghost Story, Peter Straub - if there's ever been a horror writer who could easily have made the jump to awards-winning literary fiction, it was probably Peter Straub. Don't expect easy answers or easier scares here. Ghost Story is a very, very slow burn, where even as answers start to appear, so does a creeping fear you never even noticed until it already has you in its grip.

6. The Ritual, Adam Nevill - okay, I'm one of those who doesn't like the weird stuff that pops up near the end (you'll know it if you get to it), but the first 2/3 of the book? Holy shit, good luck turning the lights off before bed. It's rare that a book terrifies me. This one did. In the best way. Too bad about that last bit, which I mostly find ridiculous. 🤷‍♀️

7. The Passage, Justin Cronin - another contender for being closer to literary fiction with a veneer of scare. The first part is tighter than the end (and this is only the first part of a trilogy), but the whole is excellent, and the level of character development is as deep as any I've found in horror. When you feel sorrow and kinship even for the monsters (both human and otherwise), you're in good hands. Or bad ones, I suppose! I've read this one, like It, several times despite the extreme length, and it's always a ride.

8. Books of Blood, Clive Barker - short stories from a guy who not only never pulls punches, he'll start hitting harder just when you think you've gotten used to the pain. It has a story called "Midnight Meat Train," for god's sake! Just give it a go. This is pure horror, and you'll find both hardcore splatter and intelligent presentation.

9. The Final Girls Support Group, Grady Hendrix - a lot of fans of Hendrix actually dislike this one, but I found it a ton of fun, even if I also wanted to smack basically all the characters. 😅 It's just dumb fun jumping off of the same dumb fun as the movies that gave us the concept of final girls. If you ever wondered how Laurie or Nancy did after the end of their endless franchises, give this one a go. (If those names mean nothing to you, try Horrorstör instead!)

10. 20th Century Ghosts/Full Throttle/Strange Weather, Joe Hill - like his rather well-known dad, Joe Hill (legally Mr. Joseph Hillstrom King) has the horror gene, and it manifests best in his shorter work. His novels are good, but his quick-punch short stories and novellas are better. (Bonus points that in one story in Strange Weather, his main character is a butch lesbian, and while he clearly tries hard, it's... well. Let's say "a valiant attempt.") If you saw The Black Phone, it's based on one of his stories. (I hear Locke and Key, his comic series, is also amazing, but I haven't read it.)

11. Swan Song, Robert McCammon - Robert McCammon has never gotten much attention outside of horror circles, and I genuinely don't know why! Like Peter Straub and Justin Cronin, McCammon's stuff is more akin to literary fiction than "paperbacks from hell." This one is a take on apocalypse, and it does it amazingly. Many people cite The Stand as one of their favorite Stephen King novels, but I think McCammon did the same idea much, much better. Give it a go! His other books are excellent, too.

12. The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig - I went into this one blind, and loved it. It was creepy, the characters are interesting, and it honestly presented twists I never saw coming. Many Wendig fans say Wanderers (and its recent sequel) are better, but I haven't read them yet. They're on my list for this year!

13. The Gone series, Michael Grant (6 volumes, with another 3 in a sequel series) - these are YA, but they hit like a truck. What begins as a veneer of weirdness just gets crazier, bloodier, and darker. It's a quick read, and I swear, once I got past what initially seems like a snooze-fest main character and "meh" plot in the first book, I didn't put them down until I'd finished them all. These books are dark. Grant is also excellent at writing characters often reduced to stereotypes in horror (including female and LGBT+ characters). (As an aside, he [uncredited] helped write the Animorphs books with his wife, so if you liked those, you'll probably enjoy the equally well-developed-but-hard-hitting material in Gone. He and Katherine Applegate are also the parents of a transgender woman that they have fully accepted as a daughter instead of a son, and are vocal advocates of trans rights, as well as the Black Lives Matter movement. Solid people I very much admire!)

Thirteen seems the appropriate number to end on, but if you're looking for more, a few additional names you might seek out: Natsuo Kirino, Scott Thomas, Dan Simmons, Stephen Graham Jones, Nick Cutter*, Otsuichi, Poppy Z. Brite*, Ronald Malfi, Jason Pargin, Shaun Hutson*, Lee Mountford*, Jack Ketchum*, John Saul, Kelly Link, Ramsey Campbell, Alma Katsu, Katherine Dunn, Lee Mandelo, Paul Tremblay, Gretchen Felker-Martin*, Shirley Jackson, Max Brooks, Graham Masterton, Jeff Strand, Lisa Tuttle, Tim Lebbon, James Herbert, Josh Malerman, Catriona Ward, Richard Chizmar, Kealan Patrick Burke, Brian James Freeman, Bentley Little, Simon Clark, William Peter Blatty, Norman Partridge. Also check out the publications of Cemetery Dance and Valancourt Books!

*Extreme content warning

I will not and will never insult your intelligence by recommending Dean Koontz.

Happy chills! 😁

(And if you ever want personalized recommendations based on what scares you - or not! - drop me a message!)

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Jie Wu feature photographed by Oscar Lindqvist for Blanc Magazine

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Oscar Lindqvist / Isabella at Milk Model

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Photography By Oscar Lindqvist

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Xiaoqiao Wang by Annie Lai & Oscar Lindqvist for Aleï Journal May 2022

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Xiaoqiao Wang by Annie Lai & Oscar Lindqvist for Aleï Journal May 2022

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Spooky literature for when the seasons change and the fog comes rolling in 

Classics

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Novels

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver

It by Stephen King

The Hunger by Alma Katsu

The Terror by Dan Simmons

The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson

Bird Box by Josh Mallerman

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Thin Air by Michelle Paver

A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge

The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements

Bodies of Water by V H Leslie

The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

The Small Hand by Susan Hill

The Upstairs Room by Kate Murray-Browne

The Girl in Red by Christina Henry

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

The Plague Stones by James Brogden

The Girl with all the Gifts by M R Carey

The Migration by Helen Marshall

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

This House is Haunted by John Boyne

Short Story Collections

The Travelling Bag & Other Ghostly Stories by Susan Hill

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

Her Body & Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories

Things We Say In The Dark by Kirsty Logan

The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories by Angela Carter

This Dreaming Isle edited by Dan Coxon

Graphic Novels

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

Dressed for Death: Short Horror Stories by Alexa Sharpe

When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll

Behind You: One-Shot Horror Stories by Brian Coldrick

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2020 Olympics Sweden Roster

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Shooting

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Skateboarding

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Swimming

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Table Tennis

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Tennis

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Wrestling

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