Question: Fav Horror Novel?

[Annette]

I try and read when the kids are in bed and when I'm not sitting at the computer.

Annette.

 

[peachy]

i normally read in bed, it helps me sleep...peachy

 

[Starling]

Where there's a will, there's a way...best time for me is at night when all is quiet, and the kids are asleep, and shadows climb up your wall to SCARE the living daylights out of ya!

starling :eek7: :eek4: :errrr: :iiworry: :nuts:

 

[imported_elmo]

favourite horror

"Djin" by Graham Masterton

 

[ivancat]

My favorite horror novel is Dracula by Bram Stoker. It is surprisingly good, even after all this time, not like Frankenstein, which is extremely stodgy. I picked Dracula up one day just on a lark and found myself reading through to the end. The characters are engaging, the story suspenseful. Definately worth a check.




Ivan Cat

 

[Annette]

I remember reading that when I was a young girl. LOL Found it to be pretty good.


annette

 

[BAYLOR]

The Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell This is a truly great novel of epic horror. I very highly recommend it .

 

[Cathbad]

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), by E. A. Poe

 

[BAYLOR]

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), by E. A. Poe

Influenced H p Lovecraft

 

[BAYLOR]

My favorite horror novel is Dracula by Bram Stoker. It is surprisingly good, even after all this time, not like Frankenstein, which is extremely stodgy. I picked Dracula up one day just on a lark and found myself reading through to the end. The characters are engaging, the story suspenseful. Definately worth a check.




Ivan Cat

Absolutely.

 

[Fishbowl Helmet]

Some favorites are probably already mentioned, but here goes: The Damnation Game (Books of Blood is also quite good, though it's a short story collection), Dracula, Frankenstein, I Am Legend, Misery, The King in Yellow (again, short stories), Ligotti's good (again, short stories), and anything by Lovecraft.

 

[Cathbad]

Influenced H p Lovecraft

Pssst... methinks youse gots dat backwards.

 

[Randy M.]

I'm surprised this thread didn't get filled in more when it was first started (15+ years ago: "That is not dead which can eternal lie ...").

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

I've read quite a few horror novels I think I'd like to reread, but this is the only one I have, and I've reread it 5-6 times.


Randy M.

 

[ratsy]

Randy, I read that last October and loved it. I can see why it's a classic. Really great writing and atmosphere to that book.

 

[Cathbad]

Pssst... methinks youse gots dat backwards.

er... oop.... sry Baylor... it was me who read your post backward...

 

[BAYLOR]

er... oop.... sry Baylor... it was me who read your post backward...

No worries.

 

[Droflet]

Hell House by Richard Matheson. Conventional haunted house story but in the hands of a master, it's a classic.

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

Salem's Lot, King's masterpiece in my view

 

[Vaz]

Too right crooksy I share the same view, it's fantastic.

 

[BAYLOR]

One the list of must read horror novels is The House on The Borderland by William Hope Hodgson . Written 1908 is considered one of the best horror novel ever written . This another book that is well regarded by H P Lovecraft.