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Is there any good horror fiction you can recommend?

#1 Ratatoskr

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Posted 15 September 2007 - 03:10 PM

I've been an avid reader of Clive Barker's horror stuff a long time ago, and of Stephen King's, an even longer time ago, back when everybody was.

So I thought I might give the genre a try again. Any good stuff out there? Is Danielewski's House Of Leaves any good?

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Posted 15 September 2007 - 03:46 PM

Have you tried Dean Koontz? Look here: http://www.deankoont...st-of-books.php

Don't read his science fiction. It's pretty bad. He became a much better writer with his later books.

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Posted 15 September 2007 - 07:19 PM

H.P. Lovecraft. Doesn't get much better than that

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Posted 15 September 2007 - 10:26 PM

arguable whether its horro or straight sci-fi, but World war Z was damn good.

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Posted 15 September 2007 - 11:22 PM

Fevre Dream and The Armageddon Rag by George RR Martin are excellent.

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson is great.

James Herbert is pretty good as well.

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Posted 16 September 2007 - 05:10 AM

The last one I read was "Heart-Shaped Box" by Joe Hill. I thought it was pretty darn good, but I'm not a horror aficianado or anything. I just picked it up at the library b/c I heard he was Stephen King's kid, and I was pleasantly surprised. It's about an aging death-metal icon with an obsession for morbid memorabilia. He buys a ghost over the internet that turns out to be all too real.

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Posted 16 September 2007 - 11:36 AM

James Herbert writes some pretty good horror books. His Rats trilogy is decent but i'd sat Sepulchre is his best.

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Posted 16 September 2007 - 03:10 PM

The Coldfire trilogy is pretty horrific. Imagine a world where your dreams come to life. Especially your nightmares.

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Posted 16 September 2007 - 04:58 PM

I don't think it is exactly something most people would describe as "classic horror" but:

Dan Simmons - Song of Kali

Good book. Thrilling and in certain parts very brutal. Gave me goosebumps.

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Posted 19 September 2007 - 10:50 PM

I am just reading A Stir of Bones. It isn't hard core horror, but kind of a mix of horror/fantasy. I am about 75% done and it is great.

Apparently it is a prequel to some other books by Nina Kiriki Hoffman. I am enjoying it quite a bit.

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Posted 20 September 2007 - 01:37 PM

The Bible is classic horror fiction.

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Posted 20 September 2007 - 02:20 PM

House of Leaves is a great book. I wouldn't say it was horror; more of an exercise in postmodernism.

Anyhoo,

I'd recommend SP Somtow, who I actually met at a convention many years ago (he's a very nice man) and who doesn't look like the kinda guy who writes some of the books he does, at all. Moon Dance; which is, amongst other things, about a turf war between Native American were-coyotes and a set of old-European werewolves in the 19th Century Old West is particularly good IMO; it's quite visceral - if you'll excuse the pun... And Vampire Junction is an occasionally very sick book about a child vampire who's been around for the last two thousand years.

I don't really do much horror, certainly not as much as when I was in my teens in the 80s, the real world scares me enough nowadays.

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Posted 20 September 2007 - 04:20 PM

Brian Lumley's NECROSCOPE books tred all over the urban fantasy/fantasy/sf/horror lines, but they are usually categorized as horror given the abundance of evil blood sucking body morphing other worldly invaders eating people in creative ways. Sometimes closer to good rather than great, but sometimes brilliant and at the least, good fun. The earlier books are more novel than the later ones but i've never been bored with them.

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