[quote]imhungry wrote:
MarvelGirl wrote:
Lovecraft scares the bejesus out of me, but I read it anyways. I also like Stephen King, The Shining and It are probably my favorites of his.
Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show was good.
Dean Koontz has some good ones too, Watchers, Servants of twilight, dark rivers of the heart.
House of Leaves really creeped me out. It was also very well written. I can’t recall the author’s name right now. (Mark Z. Danielewski, had to look it up.)
Right now I’m working on the Odd Thomas books (Koontz), which are not frightening but they’re damn likeable.
I recently read Odd Thomas, and it was a little different (in a better way) than his typical horror novels. Brother Odd i’ll be picking up soon.[/quote]
Brother Odd is a good book, some find it weird, I really enjoyed it and the elements it has.
[quote]BradyZ wrote:
imhungry wrote:
MarvelGirl wrote:
Lovecraft scares the bejesus out of me, but I read it anyways. I also like Stephen King, The Shining and It are probably my favorites of his.
Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show was good.
Dean Koontz has some good ones too, Watchers, Servants of twilight, dark rivers of the heart.
House of Leaves really creeped me out. It was also very well written. I can’t recall the author’s name right now. (Mark Z. Danielewski, had to look it up.)
Right now I’m working on the Odd Thomas books (Koontz), which are not frightening but they’re damn likeable.
I recently read Odd Thomas, and it was a little different (in a better way) than his typical horror novels. Brother Odd i’ll be picking up soon.
Brother Odd is a good book, some find it weird, I really enjoyed it and the elements it has.
Series 1 and 3 are the best, 2 and 4 are ok.
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I also liked his books “Fear Nothing” and “Seize the Night” which had recurring characters.
Koontz’s book “False Memory” was the creepy kind where you could see a bit of something like that happening.
King is overrated. However, his “danse macabre” is worth reading.
“In the mouth of madness” a good horror flick that borrows from Lovecraft and King liberally.
[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
Another vote for Clive Barker. Imajica was an excellent book. Very fertile and imaginative - with a twist - just not what I would call ‘horror’, more fantasy.
Stephen King has written some great stories too. The Stand, Salems Lot, The TommyKnockers, etc.
But the master of horror has to be H.P. Lovecraft; ‘At The Mountains Of Madness’.
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TOTALLY with you there BBB - Imagica is one of the few books that I find myself re-reading many times and enjoying it just as much as the first time.
As a total piece of random trivia, Clive Barker used to work in a library about ten minutes drive from my house, and his parents (if they are still alive, I’ve seen neither of them in a good few years) used to live quite close to me.
For a great non-erotic type vampire novel that was one of the very few ‘horror’ stories that actually had me turning lights on before walking into a room and checking behind curtains for hidden nasties, They Thirst, by Robert R. McCammon takes some beating IMO.
[quote]tribunaldude wrote:
King is overrated.[/quote]
I kind of agree there. Although I do enjoy many of his books I cannot really bring myself to see them as ‘horror’.
The Stand is without doubt one of my favourite books and probably the only King book that was made well into a film.
I really enjoy a lot of the stuff he wrote as Richard Bachman - The Running Man is such a great story that was totally bastardised and ruined for the movies. The film is just nothing like the book - shit film, totally brilliant book.
[quote]Renton wrote:
tribunaldude wrote:
King is overrated.
I kind of agree there. Although I do enjoy many of his books I cannot really bring myself to see them as ‘horror’.
The Stand is without doubt one of my favourite books and probably the only King book that was made well into a film.
I really enjoy a lot of the stuff he wrote as Richard Bachman - The Running Man is such a great story that was totally bastardised and ruined for the movies. The film is just nothing like the book - shit film, totally brilliant book.[/quote]
Conversely his novellas made really wonderful movies. ‘Stand by Me’ and ‘Shawshank Redemption’. The others were complete, unadulterated shit.
Here’s more trivia for you, Rob Reiner’s company ‘Castle Rock Entertainment’ was named for the town that appear’s repeatedly in Stephen King’s books after he (R. Reiner) directed Stand by Me.
Another horror writer I enjoy quite a bit is Peter Straub.
This thread should have ended at H.P. Lovecraft. Pick up any of the “best of” or Lovecraft collections at any book store, they tend to have all the classic works of his.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Renton wrote:
tribunaldude wrote:
King is overrated.
I kind of agree there. Although I do enjoy many of his books I cannot really bring myself to see them as ‘horror’.
The Stand is without doubt one of my favourite books and probably the only King book that was made well into a film.
I really enjoy a lot of the stuff he wrote as Richard Bachman - The Running Man is such a great story that was totally bastardised and ruined for the movies. The film is just nothing like the book - shit film, totally brilliant book.
Conversely his novellas made really wonderful movies. ‘Stand by Me’ and ‘Shawshank Redemption’. The others were complete, unadulterated shit.
Here’s more trivia for you, Rob Reiner’s company ‘Castle Rock Entertainment’ was named for the town that appear’s repeatedly in Stephen King’s books after he (R. Reiner) directed Stand by Me.
Another horror writer I enjoy quite a bit is Peter Straub.[/quote]
Agreed. But lets quit talking about authors, send me some more naked pictures of you.
[quote]Renton wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
Renton wrote:
tribunaldude wrote:
King is overrated.
I kind of agree there. Although I do enjoy many of his books I cannot really bring myself to see them as ‘horror’.
The Stand is without doubt one of my favourite books and probably the only King book that was made well into a film.
I really enjoy a lot of the stuff he wrote as Richard Bachman - The Running Man is such a great story that was totally bastardised and ruined for the movies. The film is just nothing like the book - shit film, totally brilliant book.
Conversely his novellas made really wonderful movies. ‘Stand by Me’ and ‘Shawshank Redemption’. The others were complete, unadulterated shit.
Here’s more trivia for you, Rob Reiner’s company ‘Castle Rock Entertainment’ was named for the town that appear’s repeatedly in Stephen King’s books after he (R. Reiner) directed Stand by Me.
Another horror writer I enjoy quite a bit is Peter Straub.
Agreed. But lets quit talking about authors, send me some more naked pictures of you.
I haven’t read a good scary book in ages. Now all vampire stories are soft core porn and multisexual
To be fair, I think vampire stories were always like that.
Not to mention it’s mostly women that write about them.
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Try Salem’s lot by Stephen King, Bad Moon Rising by Jonathan Maberry, The Stand by Stephen King, and anything by Brian Lumley starting with the Necroscope. The Stand BTW is a epidemic/end of the world good vs evil thing. The others are vampire books.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Renton wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
Renton wrote:
tribunaldude wrote:
King is overrated.
I kind of agree there. Although I do enjoy many of his books I cannot really bring myself to see them as ‘horror’.
The Stand is without doubt one of my favourite books and probably the only King book that was made well into a film.
I really enjoy a lot of the stuff he wrote as Richard Bachman - The Running Man is such a great story that was totally bastardised and ruined for the movies. The film is just nothing like the book - shit film, totally brilliant book.
Conversely his novellas made really wonderful movies. ‘Stand by Me’ and ‘Shawshank Redemption’. The others were complete, unadulterated shit.
Here’s more trivia for you, Rob Reiner’s company ‘Castle Rock Entertainment’ was named for the town that appear’s repeatedly in Stephen King’s books after he (R. Reiner) directed Stand by Me.
Another horror writer I enjoy quite a bit is Peter Straub.
Agreed. But lets quit talking about authors, send me some more naked pictures of you.
[edit] That goes for you too OG & Parker.
You’re awfully full of piss and vinegar today.[/quote]
It’s the drugs. I have a problem in that they make me feel like absolute crap - like even the hairs on my arms are hurting - but I’m also horny as hell.
Fortunately the pain and sick feeling goes away after a few days (although I have beaten Alwyn Cosgrove I believe in being sick over 33 times in a single day). The feeling horny is with me all the time. I wish the two would be mutually exclusive. There’s nothing worse than a major hard on at the merest thought of a sexy female whilst dashing to the sick bucket again and having my muscles feel like they’ve done three hours with a meat tenderiser.
I would read (in no particular order): Shadow Over Insmouth; The Dunwich Horror; The Case of Charles Dexter Ward; Call of Cthulu; and the Thing on the Doorstep.
[quote]tom63 wrote:
Try Salem’s lot by Stephen King, Bad Moon Rising by Jonathan Maberry, The Stand by Stephen King, and anything by Brian Lumley starting with the Necroscope. The Stand BTW is a epidemic/end of the world good vs evil thing. The others are vampire books.
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I totally forgot about Brian Lumley and his vampire series. At first I loved them and then I stopped reading them. I started to find them a bit depressing. They are unredeamably dark and as it got into the lives of the vampires on the other side, they seemed a bit white trashy in their giant aeries. The first few are excellent though.
I did make a paper mobius strip. I’ll confess I’m a dork. It’s just another version of the symbol for eternity like the ouroboros.
I remember reading Phantoms by Koontz when i was in highschool and that book freaked me out. Especially when they are first exploring the deserted town.
