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Recommend a horror novel
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Ok, out of reading material, at least out of books I really wanna read right now, I am looking for a book that will be at least as scary/disturbing as House of Leaves.
Please no vampires, unless it is a really really different approach and no Stephen King, since I read everything he published until about 12 years ago and he just does not entertain me all that much anymore and I dont find him all that scary.
It can be psychological or mystical or totally experimental or whatever, I don't care, I am looking for a book that will spook me out.
Please no vampires, unless it is a really really different approach and no Stephen King, since I read everything he published until about 12 years ago and he just does not entertain me all that much anymore and I dont find him all that scary.
It can be psychological or mystical or totally experimental or whatever, I don't care, I am looking for a book that will spook me out.
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Clive Barker - Books of Blood (short stories), the other books I've read (whose titles I don't remember, heh)
Brian Lumley - I've only read one short story of his ("Big C" or "C" I think it was called), but damn it was a good one
HP Lovecraft, of course
That's all I can think of off the top of my head
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I only read Straubs collaborations with King, is he really any different on his own?
The one book by Barker I read was Cabal, which was more like dark fantasy...
And I tried to read Lumley's Necroscope, but found the general idea behind the books just too lame to care.
I read the classics like Frankenstein, Dracula, everything written by Poe and some other writers from that era.
I also read 1984 and (although he is not horror) generally weird stuff like almost everything written by Vonnegut, etc.
I also read some books by Ian Banks like "The wasp factory" which might be closer to what I am looking for.
Yeah, but it's not horror at all.
It's good, but definitely not horror.
I am Legend by Richard Matheson.
If you like Banks, you should also maybe try some Michael Marshal Smith. Straw Men was a bit lame, but his short stories and sci-fi give me the shits.
so i'll check out some of these reccomendations. this thread also reminded me that i've been meaning to check out some vonnegut
John Dies at the End.
Or JDATE for short, is a great, free online novel. It's hard to describe, but it's basically a horror novel at heart. Yes, it is also a comedy (and a friggin hilarious comedy at that - many parts of the book made me literally laugh out loud), but it's definitely a horror novel. Many of the ideas and situations put forward in the book are very unsettling, and give you a kind of sick feeling at the pit of your stomach when you start thinking about them (especially the "shadow people" in the book...*shudder*).
Go check it out. At least read the prologue and see what you think. Most people who read the prologue either drop it right there because it's too weird for them or they simply can't stop reading until they've devoured the book. I was in the second camp personally, and I think you will be too. The best thing is that the book only gets funnier AND scarier as you keep reading, so it's a very satisfying read.
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Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes.
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and...argh, can't remember her name or the title of her book, but there was another female writer like Jackson who had done mostly other types of writing but tried her hand at writing a scary book and did pretty well. I'll be damned if I can remember her name but Stephen King mentions her in his non-fiction book Danse Macabre.
In fact, if you've got that book he's got a list of "must-read" horror novels in there (and a list of movies, too). It was published in 1980, so FWIW.
And yes, Straub is much better on his own, especially the early stuff. Floating Dragon uber alles.
There's Dean Koontz, but there's really only one novel in there, just many different titles, ha ha.
I believe the preferred term is "speculative fiction", heh.
Beyond words. I just got done reading it again. Scary scary stuff. That and Fahrenheit 451. I think it's happening. I'm scared. Fahrenheit 451 had an ending at least...but 1984...my god. I hope to be dead in the street first.
"I have no mouth and I must scream" is a classic everyone knows, but never fails to impress.
Imajica is horror-fantasy.
It turns out George Orwell was completely wrong, it took nearly 20 more years for all that stuff to happen. Seriously though, 1984 is the most terrifying book I've ever read. It's also all too relevant to today's America. I also recommend any thing by H.P Lovecraft, it may not be as scary, but his stories are no less entertaining.
I finally remembered to look it up, Anne Rivers Siddons - The House Next Door.
A turn of the century meandering into the occult, nature, and scientific progress set in the victorian era.
Its also fairly short.