I'm looking for some good.... horror

[Lobolover]

It was not always easy to hate the supposed monster when held up against the monstrosity in the humans.There was at least one point where I was cheering for the werewolf.

I almost never take the human arpoach-I wrote a short story a while back,called "The greatest hunt"-and I think I could translate it,it being fairly short,so youd know what I mean.

 

[dask]

"I apologize for that being so long. What I am looking for is some good horror novels - especially stuff that really crosses the line, then goes an extra mile. Do you guys have any recommendations?"

I'd like to suggest Moon Of The Wolf by Leslie H. Whitten. I'm not sure it "crosses the line" but if you like well written, solidly crafted supernatural suspense, you might give it a try.

 

[HeiroEnigma]

Stephen King's Skeleton Crew and Night Shift both have some phenomenal short stories, and Dean Koontz's Midnight and The Servants of Twilight are very creepy.

 

[Riselka]

Michael Slade is an author who has a real propensity for crossing the line. The horror in a Slade novel is both psychological, and visceral. They're very well researched, and contain a lot of historical detail.

His first novel, Headhunter, is currently in the process of being made into a motion picture, and his second novel, Ghoul, is on the Horror Writers Association's recommended reading list.

Michael Slade is actually a pen name. The novels have been written by several different teams of authors, but Jay Clarke has been at the helm of all of them. They're currently being co-written by Jay and his daughter Rebecca.

Jay Clarke is a Vancouver, BC, based lawyer who has been involved in over 100 court cases, and specializes in cases involving the criminally insane.

Michael Slade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And yes, I'm proud to say that I am indeed a bonefide Sladist. To achieve true Sladist status, you must have read all the novels. I go by the online ID Mbwun on the Slade message board.

 

[paranoid marvin]

I'm suprised you found Frankenstein dull ; the standard good vs evil is turned on it's head when we get to hear the creature's side of the tale , and like any good book leaves the reader asking more questions than are answered within the pages of the text. Ok , it's not filled with terror , but I'm sure that back in the day it was pretty frightening for those reading around the fireside at night

If you're looking for pyschological horror , I'd recommend Edgar Allen Poe or perhaps Dennis Wheatley ; The Monkeys Paw and The Haunting Of Toby Jugg being 2 of my favourites.

Personally I've never considered King much of a horror writer , particularly in his later novels ; most are too long to keep the effect of horror in the reader's mind. One that is particularly good though is his short story The Sun Dog - very frightening for me anyway!

 

[thepaladin]

I can't imagine anyone finding Dracula boring.....it may start a little slowly but then...oh well to each his or her own.

While I'm not strickly a horror fan and find most of King not to my taste there are horror books I like. I suppose there are horrors that happen to be good books and then there are good books that happen to be horrors.

Have you tried H. P. Lovecraft? Not truely comperable to others except for his immitators...worth a try.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Stephen King's Skeleton Crew and Night Shift both have some phenomenal short stories, and Dean Koontz's Midnight and The Servants of Twilight are very creepy.

for me , Four Past Midnight is by far and away King's best collection of short stories. All are brilliant in their own way