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Inspired by #5: favorite horror novels?
(Anonymous) 2022-10-06 01:05 am (UTC)(link)Including graphic novels!
Re: Inspired by #5: favorite horror novels?
(Anonymous) 2022-10-06 01:16 am (UTC)(link)Right now I'm reading a book called The Hiding House by Malcolm Richards which is apparently considered horror. It's decent, but so far it's more dysfunctional family drama than anything I'd really consider horror.
Re: Inspired by #5: favorite horror novels?
(Anonymous) 2022-10-06 01:25 am (UTC)(link)Re: Inspired by #5: favorite horror novels?
(Anonymous) 2022-10-06 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Inspired by #5: favorite horror novels?
Actually, I like a lot of Barker's stuff. His style works for me.
Everything scary by Edgar Allan Poe. He's a favorite author of mine, I love everything he's written. If I had to pick a single story, it would be The Cask of Amontillado.
Dracula.
The Shining. Again, book version much better than movie version, IMHO. I like Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Night Shift, and Skeleton Crew even more. King excels at short stories. The Stand is probably my favorite of his full-length stories.
I am Legend is one that is great and has never been properly adapted.
Final Girl Support Group is a newer horror book that is really good.
Everything by Lovecraft. Yes, very problematic. But I really like the cosmic horror thing.
Lovecraft Country is a great take on that genre while dealing with the racism head on. Same with the Ballad of Black Tom and also Ring Shout. The Great God Pan is super sexist, but I still like it.
The Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark were favorites as a kid, and they still hold up as pretty scary on more recent rereads.
Does Jurassic Park count as horror? I really enjoyed the book.
Red Dragon is my favorite of the Hannibal Lecter books (and my favorite of the movies for that matter).
Re: Inspired by #5: favorite horror novels?
Re: Inspired by #5: favorite horror novels?
(Anonymous) 2022-10-06 02:49 am (UTC)(link)Re: Inspired by #5: favorite horror novels?
(Anonymous) 2022-10-07 06:35 am (UTC)(link)Short fiction tends to be my favorite, but sadly I tend not to remember titles or authors from old issues of Cemetery Dance or various anthologies-- though if Ellen Datlow edited the collection, odds are I'll find a few faves.
For (non-King) single author collections, North American Lake Monsters was a recent fave. The Crevasse, The Monsters of Heaven, and The Way Station were my top three stories.
20th Century Ghosts was another collection I really loved-- Abraham's Boys was my number one story included, with 20th Century Ghosts and Better Than Home (though Better Than Home is NOT horror) rounding out my top three when I read it this January past.
For King's novels (Bachman books included), Needful Things is my number one, but Cell, Desperation/the Regulators, and The Long Walk are on my short list. His short fiction is almost always a win for me.
House of Leaves I really liked.
If Shirley Jackson wrote it, I'm there (though Hangsaman wasn't a total hit for me)
The Lathe of Heaven might not, strictly speaking, be horror, but it sure read as one for me.
Something Wicked This Way Comes.
And for graphic novels, Sandman did some things I loved, and I'm a HUGE fan of Emily Carrol's Through the Woods!
Re: Inspired by #5: favorite horror novels?
(Anonymous) 2022-10-06 01:44 am (UTC)(link)Re: Inspired by #5: favorite horror novels?
I love anything by Joe Hill (including his short stories) or Max Brooks. T. Kingfisher and Grady Hendrix are also great.
Some other books I've read over the past couple of years and enjoyed are below.
Near The Bone by Christina Henry.
Mouthful of Birds by Samantha Schweblin
Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black by Tess Gerritsen
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Salvation Day by Kali Wallace
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
Re: Inspired by #5: favorite horror novels?
(Anonymous) 2022-10-07 12:41 am (UTC)(link)Re: Inspired by #5: favorite horror novels?
(Anonymous) 2022-10-06 03:45 am (UTC)(link)Alison Littlewood's The Unquiet House
Joe Hill's Heart Shaped Box
Re: Inspired by #5: favorite horror novels?
(Anonymous) 2022-10-06 07:40 am (UTC)(link)I liked parts of House Of Leaves a lot (namely I liked the innermost story within the story--the part about the house), but didnt overly enjoy the book in its entirety.
Re: Inspired by #5: favorite horror novels?
(Anonymous) 2022-10-06 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Re: Inspired by #5: favorite horror novels?
(Anonymous) 2022-10-06 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)I like the graphic novel From Hell by Alan Moore.
I like Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, The Exorcist and Legion by William Peter Blatty, Imajica, Cabal, Weaveworld by Clive Barker, a lot by Stephen King, The God Project by John Saul....there's some paperbacks I read in the past that I just can't remember.