Anyone got any suggestions for horror books ? Besides Stephen King. He’s the only horror author I’ve ever read.
Anyone got any suggestions for horror books ?
Besides Stephen King. He’s the only horror author I’ve ever read.
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oh please try me if you like Stephen King
Caroline Owen is in recovery after a mental breakdown. Confined to a hostel, she has to avoid the addicts and strange, oppressive characters lurking in crannies and wandering the hallways. Getting her life back on track proves difficult as more than past ghosts are coming out of the woodwork. Bad dreams torment her of girls disappearing, girls like her, taken by some ancient evil that will do anything to stay young and beautiful. Caroline begins to learn that there are worst things than ghosts lurking in the darkness of the world…
@Nikole if you wanted to read it is here https://www.amazon.com/dp/1790652707
Sounds like a great story. I might try it soon
@Sanvad thankyou I hope you enjoy reading it
Dean Koontz
Graham Masterton
Richard Laymon has a shock factor
@Lee I miss his books.
@Keren I really enjoyed them, but after a minute 20 I found them a bit too samey
Richard laymon.
Try his son, Joe Hill. The Heart Shaped Box is an excellent book.
That was a good one! I loved Horns.
Dean koontz. I think that’s how you spell it.
james herbert
https://amzn.to/2M3PIN1
https://amzn.to/2SJ3MxL
Jack Kilborn…Origin is very good. Gave me chills. He has others.
HELL HOUSE by Richard Matheson
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Intensity by Dean Koontz
Some of my favorites.
Clive Barker has some really chilling titles
Love Barkers work.
Clive barker is a name I’ve heard a lot, never got around to read him. Any specific barker books that you’d recommend ?
He was best known for the Hellraiser movie, but he books are great. https://amzn.to/2D3n4Zv
https://amzn.to/2AGyAbP
Cabal by Clive barker is one of my favorites.
H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Shirley Jackson and, of course, Edgar Allen Poe to name a few.
John Saul
Ketchum is good too, more of a “real” horror https://amzn.to/2AFjuDb
@Jeff
Dan Simmons
Kafka
Following
Richard Laymon for sure!
He’s an oldie but a goodie. I definitely enjoy reading him
F. Paul Wilson
Anything by H.P. Lovecraft is good!
His son joe hill is also pretty good. Horns was pretty creepy with some dark humor tied it and Heart Shaped Box was really good too I’d give him a try
John saul, rick hautla
If your into the paranormal you need to read @Shani work, absolutly brilliant, also @Sarah , you’ll be hooked xx
Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, HP Lovecraft, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Ramsey Campbell, Robert McCammon, Peter Straub, Dean Koontz, Ira Levin, Whitley Streiber, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Bloch, Jose Donoso…
also much fear and terror and dread to be found in some works of Gunter Grass, Roald Dahl, JK Rowling, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Walter Mosley, Herman Melville, JD Salinger, Knut Hamsun, Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll, William Golding, John Fowles, Caleb Carr, James Joyce, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, William S. Burroughs, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Vladimir Nabokov, Robert Frost, SE Hinton, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia-Arthur Rimbaud, Marquez, Sylvia Plath, Neil Gaiman, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevky, Samuel Beckett, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, Carlos Fuentes, Ayn Rand, Frank Herbert, Yukio Mishima, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Michael Crichton, Robinson Jeffers, ETA Hoffman, Gary Jennings, Washington Irving, Dylan Thomas, Truman Capote
Try J.F. Gonzalez, Jack Ketchum and Brian Keene. They write good Horror books too.
The walking dead
McDowell, Matheson, McCammon
Susan May
Dean Koontz. Phantoms, Watchers, etc.
I like John Saul
Dean Koontz, John Saul, Peter Straub
Anything by @Adam
James Herbert is excellent!
Give John Hennessy a try.
Yeah Dean Koontz is up there he has a very good style of writing aswel
Edgar Allan Poe (for some classic, gothic stuff), Graham Masterton
I like Japanese author Koji Suzuki (“The Ring”)
Agree Joe Hill and Dean Koontz…
Oh yes, Joe Hill, of course! By the way, he is the son of Stephen King…?
Bram Stocker
His son Joe Hill is a good writer. His book NOS4A2 is really good.
@Christina that’s going to be a tv series starring Zacary Quinto . (Spock from Star Trek)
Really? Omg that’s awesome! He was also in a season (the 2nd one I think) of American Horror Story.
you can probably google it. the article I was reading talked about
oops. how great Zachary Quinto is in it.
Ghost Story.
This book was so much fun. Imagine a haunted Ikea and you can’t find the exit. https://www.powells.com/book/-9781594745263
@Jonathan I wondering about this. It does sound intriguing.
Ted decker has some creepy ones
Some of Dean Koontz. Intensity scared me silly.
Try Edgar Allen Poe
If you like Stephen King then you should really like Dean Koontz
John Saul
Bentley Little though he can be quite graphic.
John Saul
McCammon and Anne Rice!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07HXTRQZP/ref=cm_cr_srp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07KNGWFQY/ref=cm_cr_srp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8
H.P. Lovecraft… Cosmic Horror genre that would give you all kinds of temporary phobia……….
Check out this book on Goodreads: Let the Right One In http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/943402.Let_the_Right_One_In
“Dracul” by Dacre Stoker & J.D. Barker. Goodreads Horror Nominee. Check out the other books by J.D. too.
I juts bought Dracul ?
@Janeta try Barker’s “the fourth monkey” & the sequel “the fifth to die”. Can’t wait for more.
@Bobbi thank you, I will.
Another idea: Joseph D’Lacey, “Meat”…
Shirley Jackson – The Legend of Hell House – scary
Actually, her book was HILL House. Richard Matheson wrote a very similar one about HELL House a few years later – just as creepy in a less subtle way.
Haunting.
Bentley Little, Richard Laymon
Dean Koontz
JEFFERY DEAVER -NOT SURE IF HIS -ARE HORROR BUT HE IS SUSPENSE/THRILLER/MYSTERY.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/horror
H.P. Lovecraft
Ann Rice Interview with a vampire
@Teresa her recent book, “Blood Communion” keeps the series going.
Dean Koontz
James Patterson’s Alex Cross series is very good, not horror but Psycho Thriller
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Dean Koontz
Ian Rob Wright
F. Paul Wilson, John Saul, Charles Stross, Brian Lumley, Clive Barker
Bentley Little
Idk if it’s really counted as horror but, The Dark Decent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kirsten White is really good.
@Stephanie just finished it. You are right ~ it’s very good.
Lisa Gardner:
Clive barker
H P Lovecraft. Old classics
http://www.poppyzbrite.com/
James Herbert
Lovecraft. the only “horror” stories i like.
I can’t read Stephen King. Something about his style annoys me and bores me.
Try Dean Koontz!!
@Hanna this is like the sixth time somebody’s mentioned Koontz. I’ll definitely pick up his books today !
At last someone else feels the same way as I do about King’s books.
@Sanvad let me know how you like it!!
Point Horror books are UA but very good. Dean Kootnz can be good at horror.
Sorry should be YA
Chris Carter. Amazing. And he’s a really good writer
Kealan Patrick Burke. I discovered him recently and have been enjoying several of his books.
Helen Oyeyemi – White is for Witching
(About a haunted house)
Anything John Saul writes will give you the willies.
Anything by Jack Ketchum.
Dean Knootz.his Seize the Night series
Gabino Iglesias
His new book “coyote songs” and the previous one “zero saints” are fantastic!
How about Joe @Michele
Dean Koonts earlier books.
Clive Barker’s Books of Blood.
h.p lovecraft
They Thirst, or anything by Robert McCammon.
Try Kevin O’Brien
Robert Maccammon Swan Song
Dean Koontz.
Dean Kootnz