Recommend me some horror books!

[Nerds_feather]

Just finished The Dead Zone. It was solid and had some interesting depth to it, though I wouldn't go so far as to say I loved it. Doing a fantasy title first, then on to The Ruins!

 

[svalbard]

I would recomend The Charlie Parker series by John Connolly. They are dectitive novels with a massive dose of the supernatural layered through the series.

On the more traditional side The Talisman and The Black House are excellent reads. They are a collabortation between Stephan King and Peter Straub.

 

[Fried Egg]

Re: The Red Tree

I hope you do!

Yeah, it was good. Just when I was convinced that constance didn't really exist at the end, I went back and re-read the editor's preface that stated that she did actually exist...

 

[Randy M.]

Re: The Red Tree

Yeah, it was good. Just when I was convinced that constance didn't really exist at the end, I went back and re-read the editor's preface that stated that she did actually exist...

It's hard to tell what's real and what's delusion. And Kiernan doesn't make it any easier in her next novel, The Drowning Girl. I think Kiernan is on a streak right now that makes her one of the best fantasists working.


Randy M.

 

[Fumi]

I enjoyed Ramsey Campbell's 'The Grin Of The Dark'.

 

[Toby Frost]

Good choice!

I didn't really warm to The Haunting of Hill House, although I do like ghost stories. I would recommend The House Next Door by Anne River Siddons in that area. Ghost Story by Peter Straub was alright, although not very frightening and very much in the Stephen King "Small town falls apart" mold. Actually, looking back at it, I felt that the sense of a community decaying in 'Salem's Lot was much scarier than the actual vampire, who seemed a bit camp to me. While King is good with atmosphere, I don't think his monsters are very frightening.