can some one recommend a good horror book. no Stephen King or Dean Knootz. Need something fresh
can some one recommend a good horror book. no Stephen King or Dean Knootz. Need something fresh
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James Herbert?
Jack Kilborn …Afraid or Origin are my 2 favorites.
Jeffrey Denver the Lincoln Rhyme series.
Hurricane Irma by Mother Nature. 1st edition out on Sunday. ?
head full of ghosts
Jack Kilborn, Paul Tremblay, nick cutter, Bentley little, Clive barker
Clive Barker- mister B. Gone, The Hellbound Heart, the books of blood.
The Road
I’ve read this. it was really good!
Little Heaven by Nick Cutter
I hear Ania Ahlborn is good too. Though I’ve not read her yet.
I read “seed” by this author a few months ago, it’s very surreal. I can see a film being produced based on that book
Oh yea? I have the bird water and another by her and I just haven’t gotten to read either yet. But I hear she’s very creepy and different, which I like!
Joe Hill, Bentley Little.
@Adam is a great horror writer
Taylor Adams
Joe Hill.
Ohhhh Heart Shaped Box I thought was great!! I just bought 20th Century Ghost!
I have the fireman and loved horns x
I read heart shaped box and 20th century ghost
James Herbert books are great x
JO Nesbo, great reads.
Greg Ilies..very good
Author A R Vidal
Author A R Vidal
Joe Hill
L B Taylor. True local ghosts
Ohhhhh really horror
Bird Box
Summary of it please
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18498558-bird-box I read this a while ago so I thought that these would do a better job. They are planning a movie and I cannot imagine-I think you’ll agree if you read it.
Thanks dear
I ll get it
Hope you enjoy it…I was completely creeped out and I still think about it sometimes!
Ok dear
The title shows
The Girl with All the Gifts is good (Apocalypse story).
I didn’t care much for this one. I usually love a good zombie read.
Gravel Switch:a Weird Tale of Extreme Horror by Aleister Davidson. Free today on Amazon.
Send me the link on my g mail
Red hill
Ohhhhh
Among monster…. Read that one then red hill…. Both really good!!!!!
The title shows it horror
Ok
Rushed by brian harmon was good… At least I thought so.
Is it a book?
Yes
Ok
Have you read the classics – Dracula or Frankenstein?
oh this cover just invokes chills
@Arianna, I used to want to live in the woods, now I run from them ?
lol. I’m looking for a good Halloween scare for me and my pen pal. this will work
@Arianna, I think her other books are even more intense than The Winter People
One of my favorites.
F. P. Wilson. Repairman Jack novels
Fantastic series!!
Make sure you read them in order!
That’s what I heard. I have the list of the order
R.G. Barnett Darkness: City of Shadows 😀
Jack Ketchum
Dan Simmons has some good ones!! 😀
Carrion Comfort
Song for Kali
I am reading Carrion Comfort right now. The Terror was one of my favorites too 😀
Robert Mcammon:
Swan Song
Boys Life
They Thirst
Christopher Pike: The Season Of Passage
Animals by Skipp & Spector, The Uninvited by William W Johnstone, The Stake by Richard Laymon, Stinger by Robert McCammon, Night Stone by Rick Hautela, House Infernal by Edward Lee, Necroscope by Brian Lumley, Joyride by Jack Ketchum, and I can keep going…
I Loved House of Leaves!! I may have to read it again! 😉
Swan Song
Ive seen a bunch of interesting ones. i can’t wait to read a couple of them. thank you guys and gals!!!!!
looking this up now
@Arianna , this one surprised me how good it was, it was a page turner that caused a bit of anxiety! Loved it
sorry I looked this up. I need this book now!!!!!
Bird Box
Womenin the Walls and Snowblind and A Head Full Of Ghosts
James Herbert – The magic cottage
The Blackstone Chronicles by John Saul…
Good, but Creature is still his best…
I haven’t read Creature yet. I read his older books
@Barb Creature was a mid-point book of his…developing his “modern Horror”
I will definitely check it out. I could actually have it here. I have like a lot of books here. ?
Love John Saul
I just saw this recommendation after I posted the same one! I love that book!
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Look up mister B Gone by Clive Barker it’s a really interesting, original and freaky novella!
The Scarlet Gospels ifs the final Hellraiser story…
Oh wow
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Joe Hill
M.R. Carey
Joe Hill Falls in with his Daddy…If you block the King, you block the whole royal family…
If you read, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson you will not forget about it. This is an older book but don’t disregard it’s menace
I’ll check it out
Is it as good as Hell House
I think it has a great opening, unforgettable like the start of Rebecca. This one…….”…whatever walks there walks alone’. *shudder*
Yes I was about to suggest the same thing! Personal favorite of mine.
I have the sight by (Rick Wood)
The Deep and The Troop by Nick Cutter. Amazing books. Also The Strain series.
The Red Dragon, Thomas Harris
Bram stoker’s Dracula….if you haven’t already read it!
H.p. Lovecraft
Blackstone Chronicles by John Saul!! That book was it for me! Loved it! I also got scared reading Penpal by Dathan Auerbach! That one made me forget it was fiction!
Well I wrote a thriller/horror that has a large following. Book two finally in the works. It’s based on historical facts and events. Check out fb page The Wardrobe by Susan Elliston to see if it’s you kind of story.
Silence of the lambs
Suicide Forest Jeremy Bates
Bleed – Ed Kurtz
Dracula
James Herbert is always good.
john dies at the end by David Wong.
Bentley Little…
pretty creepy but really good!
The Rats By James Herbert
Demon in the freezer scared the hell out of me
anything by Clive Barker
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The 120 Days of Sodom
author H.P. Lovecraft
The Second Child by John Saul
“The Strain” trilogy by Chuck Hogan & Guillermo del Toro
Really I mean without stephen king ??????
yep lol
Bad Games by @Jeff
Philip Rickman
Origin by Jack Kilborn.
Necroscope
Night in the Lonesome October by Richard Laymon
Superstition by r.l. stine.
I have it. I loved it!!!
Behind closed doors by B.A Paris
Gave me the creeps
Turn of the Screw
Any Ania Ahlborn will leave you shaking
The Troop by Nick Cutter
The Kind Worth Killing & his newest….can’t think of the name of it right now….Her Every Fear! Both by Peter Swanson.
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite.
sounds interesting. what is about?