some good authors on this thread. look up
peter staub: ghost story and shadowland and floating dragon.
john skip and craig spector: the light at the
end and animals the clean up. really good writting and some thing different, but definitely horror
animals and the clean up are 2 seperate
novels. sorry!
Any more old school recommendations aside from Lovecraft and perhaps the obvious Poe?
I just found my old copy of ‘Tales of Terror and Mystery’ by Arthur Conan Doyle. I’m going to read it right now. I remember there being some good stuff in there.
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is pretty horrifying and twisted, although I wouldn’t consider it strictly part of the horror genre. Check it out!
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Any more old school recommendations aside from Lovecraft and perhaps the obvious Poe?[/quote]
Oldschool?
Goosebumps by RL Stein.
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
Any more old school recommendations aside from Lovecraft and perhaps the obvious Poe?[/quote]
Robert Bloch and August Derleth.
They both ran with Lovecraft. Robert Bloch was the dude that wrote Psycho.
Whilst not following traditional horror guidelines in terms of structure or plot execution,
Mark C. Danielewski’s ‘House Of Leaves’ has to be the creepiest thing I’ve ever read.
The stories of Arthur Machen, in particular “The Great God Pan.”
“The King in Yellow” by Robert W. Chambers.
“Coffin County” and anything else by Gary A. Braunbeck. Criminally underappreciated.
Peter Straub.
Joe R. Lansdale.
Poppy Z. Brite.
Jack Ketchum is the only writer that gave me a sleepless night. No ghosts and goblins here; just people doing terrible things to each other. But he writes so damn well you care about his characters and the outcome. Not fiction you can skim through.
If you can find them on backorder, Vertigo also came out a few years back with an excellent comic anthology called “Flinch”. Great, great stuff.