Anyone read horror

[Guest Youth N Asia]

I don't read as much as I use to, but when I do it's usually a biography or a horror book.

 

I use to read a lot of King and Koontz...but I read a couple of their newer books a few years back and they pretty much all blew...so I kind of abandoned them for now.

 

I use to read a lot of Saul...I've read almost all but his newer ones. Very good writer.

 

Now my favorite writer is Bentley Little...he only has 10 or so books out but even his worst just killed King and Koontz these days.

 

Anyone else read horror?

[Guest Flyboy]

All I pretty much read is Kootz.

[Guest Vyce]

I read a great deal of horror. Everything from modern horror to old, classic stuff.

 

I still like King, but I do agree that his earlier work was better than a lot of his later stuff. Although I still think most of his new stuff is still pretty decent (well.....except perhaps for "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon").

 

I've never been that big on Koontz. He's a decent writer, sometimes, but the man can't end a book to save his life.

 

As for recent authors, I'm high on Bentley Little as well, and I'm also fond of Douglas Clegg.

[Guest J*ingus]

King I've read a lot of, and he goes back and forth. Little, same thing, but even moreso; University and The Ignored are just incredibly awesome, but The Dominion sucked soooooo hard. Koontz I've yet to read any, but actually just checked out The Mask from the library to try and start on some of his stuff. Lovecraft is the old standard of course, and I also enjoy a contemporary of his named William Hope Hodgson. Also, though it's not strict horror, I must always pimp Mark Z. Danielewski's mind-boggling work of absolute fucking brilliance, House Of Leaves.

[Guest Vyce]

Lovecraft is the old standard of course, and I also enjoy a contemporary of his named William Hope Hodgson. Also, though it's not strict horror, I must always pimp Mark Z. Danielewski's mind-boggling work of absolute fucking brilliance, House Of Leaves.

Old school horror is the best.

 

Read everything you can by Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, F. Marion Crawford, and Edgar Allan Poe. Read Henry James' "Turn of the Screw". Get your hands on a copy of the "Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories". Old school can be every bit as good as the modern day classics.

 

As for Danielewski, I too love the "House of Leaves". It's a mind-fuck. Best way I can describe it is the literary equivalent of the "Blair Witch Project". Tesseracts are incredibly fucking scary if you ask me.

 

Oh, and about Danielewski......his sister? Poe? HOT.

 

I'd tap that.

 

She makes good music, too.

[Guest J*ingus]

Best way I can describe it is the literary equivalent of the "Blair Witch Project".

THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU with sugar on top, I've been trying to figure out a good way to describe this book over the past year and a half, and you just came up with the perfect one. You rock. And so do both Poes.

[Guest EricMM]

I really think Stephen King has come into his own again. Perhaps now that he is sober once again, his quality has improved IMO (Yes yes EXCEPT for the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordan) But recent books like Hearts in Atlantis, Bag of Bones, and Dreamcatcher have all been great books IMO, better than some of his 80's stuff. I really didn't like Firestarter, Gerald's Game was as bad as Tom Gordon...

 

I just think he's improved. At least he remembers writing his books now, if you read his On Writing book, he says that he doesn't particularly remember writing any of Cujo, he was too consistantly trashed.

[Guest DawnBTVS]

I've been recently getting into Tamara Thorne lately. Candle Bay's become one of my favorites. I also liked Wither and Vespers although neither are by Tamara and I can't remember the authors.

[Guest HellSpawn]

I read Koontz, King and a few more like Clive Barker (CABAL & The great and secret show), Ray Garton (Crucifax).

I also read Lovecraft, but i just loan the book to a girl and she left school a few weeks later, so... bye bye book.

 

My favorite books are:

Stephen King: Salem's Lot. IMO THE most amazing vampire story.

Dean Koontz: Phantoms, this one is my favorite book ever.

[Guest HellSpawn]

Barker's book are kinda weird,but hey, this guy create Hellraiser, and Pinhead is one of the new horror icons.

[Guest Vyce]

Clive Barker was phenomenal. Clive Barker, IMO, was one of the great pioneers for the modern day horror movement. His Books of Blood, as well as novels like "Hellbound Heart" (which created the Cenobites!) and "Damnation Game" are classics of modern horror.

 

I only use the past tense when referring to his work in horror because he's basically moved past that genre. He's more into dark fantasy these days. He's still a great writer, but the themes are different.