Editor in Chief Bill | 26 Nov 2015 9:20 p.m. PST |
Which horror novels are in your top five? |
Coelacanth1938 | 26 Nov 2015 11:09 p.m. PST |
1. Salem's Lot 2. The Stand 3. The Sand Dwellers 4. The Wolfen 5. The Night Stalker (paperback adaption of the movie) |
Winston Smith | 27 Nov 2015 12:09 a.m. PST |
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Flashman14 | 27 Nov 2015 2:44 a.m. PST |
The Ruins – Scott Smith Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson The Shining – Stephen King The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde |
PzGeneral | 27 Nov 2015 3:44 a.m. PST |
The Keep – F. Paul Wilson The book….awesome The movie….the exact opposite… |
Bellbottom | 27 Nov 2015 4:17 a.m. PST |
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etotheipi | 27 Nov 2015 6:08 a.m. PST |
Sphere, Michael Crichton. This may be a thriller or other class of novel, but I read it while on patrol on a submarine. Dracula, Bram Stoker The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole Never Bet the Devil Your Head, Edgar Allen Poe, which is more a short story, but awesome nonetheless. |
chuck05 | 27 Nov 2015 6:12 a.m. PST |
Necroscope by Brian Lumly Phantoms by Dean koontz I agree about The Keep. Excellent book terrible movie. |
Extrabio1947 | 27 Nov 2015 6:38 a.m. PST |
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons Hell House by Richard Matheson The Haunting oh Hill House by Shirley Jackson Dracula by Bram Stoker The Stand by Stephen King |
Mute Bystander | 27 Nov 2015 7:07 a.m. PST |
Other than the Victorian classics (and intelligence reports, for completely different reasons) I don't read horror stories. |
RavenscraftCybernetics | 27 Nov 2015 7:17 a.m. PST |
Dracula The Resurrection of Titus Crow The Whisperer in the Darkness I have No Mouth and I must Scream Eat, Pray, Love |
boy wundyr x | 27 Nov 2015 8:01 a.m. PST |
I don't read much horror, but from what I have: At the Mountains of Madness (Lovecraft) Frankenstein (Shelley) And I don't know if these are so much horror as "monster", but I like the Monster Hunter International series a lot, and would put the original MHI and Monster Hunter Alpha on the list. Not classical horror, more like John Woo and John Carpenter had a marathon X-Files binge and stumbled out the next morning with plot notes scribbled on a napkin. |
Mitochondria | 27 Nov 2015 8:50 a.m. PST |
I am definitely going to read some of these! |
Patrick Sexton | 27 Nov 2015 9:26 a.m. PST |
The Bridge (Skipp and Spector) Salems Lot Phantoms Ghost Story Fragment |
Huscarle | 27 Nov 2015 11:40 a.m. PST |
Frankenstein At the Mountains of Madness The Terror They Thirst Anything by M. R. James |
enfant perdus | 27 Nov 2015 12:50 p.m. PST |
I haven't read much horror, but The Exorcist scared me witless. I read it in college, having seen the movie countless times, and it cost me a lot of sleep. Interestingly, the novel is not only more frightening than the movie, it also keeps you guessing as to whether Regan is genuinely possessed or exhibiting an unlikely (but documented) array of symptoms consistent with mental illness. |
Legbiter | 27 Nov 2015 1:58 p.m. PST |
The House on the Borderlands Frankenstein At the Mountains of Madness The Dunwich Horror The Call of Cthulhu |
snurl1 | 28 Nov 2015 12:11 a.m. PST |
Rats in the Walls, Lovecraft. |
Parzival | 30 Nov 2015 2:04 p.m. PST |
The Haunting of Hill House-- Shirley Jackson. Sets the standard for the haunted house genre. The Turn of the Screw-- Henry James. Best unreliable narrator ghost story. The Face in the Frost-- John Bellars. Creepy, ominous, and fun. The Hound of the Baskervilles-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Yes, it's Sherlock Holmes, but the hound is frightening. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents-- Sir Terry Pratchett. Starts off as a fun lark, and then gets very, very creepy, very, very quickly. And yes, it's about rats…as the heroes. I realize that technically most of the above are not "horror," but I prefer the subtle chill to the grotesque. |
Wegzo II | 28 Dec 2015 1:36 p.m. PST |
Lovecraft's Rats in the Walls is a nice short chiller with a gruesome little ending. His Dunwich and Innsmouth are also good short horror reads. The Amityville Horror, Salems Lot, Shining, as I recall, good also. The Shining especially for a winter's read. |
Hafen von Schlockenberg | 02 Jan 2016 10:17 a.m. PST |
M.R.James wrote novels? I guess if Lovecraft's shorts count,then"Casting the Runes" does too. Sure made into a great movie. But then,so was Jane Eyre. Don't forget Maupassant and Blackwood. And Hoffmann.And I just started rereading The Golem,by Gustav Meyrink last night, as it happens. And hey The Keep movie is a camp classic. |