So I'm about to start reading devil in silver which comes highly recommended online. However other than that it is just the same general recommendations (shining, exorcist etc). Any other great horror novels out there? Not fussed which type of horror just sick at the moment of crime thrillers and fantasy. Thanks in advance. |
Horror novels (boo)
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OmniaVincitAmor 2,375 posts
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wuntyate 16,225 posts
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Registered 7 years agoPhantoms by Dean Koontz. An oldie but a goodie.
Then just read The Shining 84 times. That's what i do. -
OmniaVincitAmor 2,375 posts
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Registered 10 years ago@wuntyphyve ha. Will check out Koontz. Think I may have read one of his before. Nice one. -
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Registered 17 years agoYou want monsters, gore or spooks? -
GuiltySpark 6,787 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI will forever recommend I Am Legend. -
OmniaVincitAmor 2,375 posts
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Registered 10 years agoSpanky wrote:
All. Any. Just a genuinely good horror story.
You want monsters, gore or spooks? -
OmniaVincitAmor 2,375 posts
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Registered 10 years agoGuiltySpark wrote:
Yeah read it. Before the film thank fuck. Though I thought the film was OK just too Hollywood.
I will forever recommend I Am Legend. -
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Registered 18 years agoJames Herbert is usually pretty creepy. With a dedicated porn too. -
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Registered 7 years agoHaunted then Ghosts of Sleath by Herbert are well worth reading. One and The Unblemished by Conrad Williams is another two to check out. -
Clive Barkers Books of Blood is my favourite horror book. -
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Registered 10 years agoGoingNowWhere wrote:
This. I loved both volumes of it.
Clive Barkers Books of Blood is my favourite horror book.
I don't read much horror novels but I'm just about to start one called Bird Box which sounds quite promising. -
quadfather 37,970 posts
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Registered 11 years agoH.p. Lovecraft. -
OmniaVincitAmor 2,375 posts
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Registered 10 years agodevil_badger wrote:
That does sound good.
GoingNowWhere wrote:
This. I loved both volumes of it.
Clive Barkers Books of Blood is my favourite horror book.
I don't read much horror novels but I'm just about to start one called Bird Box which sounds quite promising. -
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Registered 19 years agoJoe Hill's stuff is fun - I loved Heart-Shaped Box and Nosferatu.
Probably a little too mainstream for your liking but King's 'Mr Mercedes' trilogy is great, too! -
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Registered 13 years agoquadfather wrote:
H.p. Lovecraft. -
caligari 17,945 posts
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Registered 19 years agoOh, and we might as well chuck in Hill's eye-wateringly good 'Locke and Key' series - and I'm sure we could include Moore and Gaiman stuff (Swamp Thing et al). -
OmniaVincitAmor 2,375 posts
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Registered 10 years agocaligari wrote:
Heart shaped box is next after my current readat the moment for me. Seems mental though...
Joe Hill's stuff is fun - I loved Heart-Shaped Box and Nosferatu.
Probably a little too mainstream for your liking but King's 'Mr Mercedes' trilogy is great, too!
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wuntyate 16,225 posts
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Registered 7 years agoquadfather wrote:
Yup.
H.p. Lovecraft.
Shadow Over Innsmouth. -
wuntyate 16,225 posts
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Registered 7 years agoAlso if we're talking about Barker, The Damnation Game is a must. -
OmniaVincitAmor 2,375 posts
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Registered 10 years agowuntyphyve wrote:
Is that one of the short stories? I can see a collection online but it's 180 odd short stories...
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Yup.
H.p. Lovecraft.
Shadow Over Innsmouth. -
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Registered 7 years ago@OmniaVincitAmor it's more a novella but yeah. Grab any collection of his that has it because you'll want to read more of his once you've read it. -
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Registered 10 years agowuntyphyve wrote:
Perfect.
@OmniaVincitAmor it's more a novella but yeah. Grab any collection of his that has it because you'll want to read more of his once you've read it. -
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Registered 19 years agoI dip in and out of Lovecraft (maaatron!) - just be warned, he makes Nigel Farage look like Teddy Ruxpin. -
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Registered 19 years agoI can also recommend the 'Miskatonic Musings' podcast (originally brought to my attention by a kind EG-er). Lots of Lovecraft/horror chat, with authors as guests - oh, and it helps that they're pretty funny (even more so when they're 'buzzed').
They have brought lots of interesting horror books/films/comics to my attention that I would otherwise have missed.
Lots of 'Weird Fiction' talk which seems to THE BIG THING in the horror sphere at the mo. -
Adam Nevill is my go-to for decent horror these days, he mixes really relatable situations with really really scary shit. British too. Check out The Ritual, you'll never go camping again. -
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Registered 11 years agoKovacs77 wrote:
heh, was scrolling down about to suggest adam nevill and recommend the ritual...also banquet for the damned...
Adam Nevill is my go-to for decent horror these days, he mixes really relatable situations with really really scary shit. British too. Check out The Ritual, you'll never go camping again.
definitely lovecraft, also m r james
clive barker is a favourite
i prefer some of the lesser-known king stuff to the old faves...
phil rickman is another british author with some cracking books...
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Registered 12 years agowuntyphyve wrote:
This.
quadfather wrote:
Yup.
H.p. Lovecraft.
Shadow Over Innsmouth.
And colour out of space.
Scariest story I ever read though was from Gerald Durrell of people. A short story in the picnic and suchlike pandemonium, a story about mirrors.
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drhcnip 6,554 posts
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the entrance? great story
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/currentstudents/undergraduate/italian/modules/modulesyears34/it309/reading_for_term_2/durrell_the_entrance.pdf
also some good stuff in the ray bradbury collections like the illustrated man...also, i love something wicked this way comes, the book & the film...
john lindqvist as well - let the right one in, handling the undead, the harbour...pretty much any of his...
and jonathan aycliffe, john harwood, fg cottam and, as a one off, dark matter by michelle paver... -
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Registered 12 years agodrhcnip wrote:
Aye! Good catch. Was just about to rummage through my bookcase but that is it.
@RyanDS
the entrance? great story
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/currentstudents/undergraduate/italian/modules/modulesyears34/it309/reading_for_term_2/durrell_the_entrance.pdf
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Ramsay Campbell is well worth a look.
A Grin of the Dark is one of my favourites. Creepy psychological 2am horror of the highest order.
Thomas Ligotti is another - I'd recommend My Work Is Not Yet Done.
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