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Post by richardburton on Feb 8, 2007 10:25:22 GMT 1
OK, there's been a lot of quality horror stories over the years. What's been an all time favourite for you?
For me, I think Stephen King still tops it for me with either IT, The Stand or Needful Things. Possibly hedge towards IT at a push.
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Post by Scifishocks on Feb 8, 2007 15:32:33 GMT 1
I liked early King but I think he lost it after 'Needful Things'.
I was always partial to Shaun Hutson's work. Even when he strayed away from horror and went more into action, he was producing good, gritty novels. Is he still writing? I haven't read anything new from him for quite a while.
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Post by Anim8tr on Feb 8, 2007 23:40:07 GMT 1
One of my all-time favorite horror stories has always been William Peter Blatty's "The Exorcist". I've also greatly enjoyed a number of works by Thomas Harris.
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Post by David Faltskog on Feb 9, 2007 0:33:34 GMT 1
H.P.Lovecraft...The greatest writer of Horror and the creator of the Cthullu Mythos. Fave Book? any collection of Lovecraft's tales  D.F. |
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Post by Scifishocks on Feb 9, 2007 2:30:37 GMT 1
Ah.. Lovecraft was a master indeed. I'd heartily recommend the three omnibii.. or omnibuses, whatever the word is, that I have:
'At the Mountains of Madness', 'Dagon and other Macabre Tales' and 'The Haunter of the Dark'.
The tales in them veer from incredibly imaginitive fantasy to creepy, old style horror and everywhere in-between with many tales interweaving.
Magical stuff!
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Post by richardburton on Feb 9, 2007 11:32:40 GMT 1
I've never read much Lovecraft, but it is on my list to get round to. The Exorcist is a classic, as too are Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal (apart from the dodgy end, IMHO). One or two of Clive Barker's are very good too in an extremely twisted way.
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Post by killraven on Feb 9, 2007 15:30:32 GMT 1
There's one horror novel I read in my early teens which particularly sticks in my mind (sadly its name, and that of the author have escaped me!!!  ;D). Appearing to be just another piece of obscure pulp fiction I found it whilst nosing around my dad's enormous pile of old books in the spare room. Basically the plot seemed to centre around a chap who was out running (marathon training or something) then suddenly something happens and he wakes up in a hospital (supposedly!) and one of his legs is missing. He's told he's been in a road accident and the limb couldn't be saved. Anyway, terror and helplessness increase as each successive morning he wakes up he finds another limb missing...until one morning consciousness appears and there's complete darkness, and he can't see or hear anything (you can see where this has gone...he's just a brain in a jar...  ) Utterly chilling!! Anyway, I never got to find out the denouement because i started having nightmares about it and after mentioning the book to my mum she took it off me and hid it  Don't know if anyone here can enlighten me or knows what I'm talking about!!? If so, I wouldn't mind getting myself a copy and trying it out again  KR |
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Post by Lensman on Feb 9, 2007 23:39:01 GMT 1
I've never tried Stephen King, altho many of may friends say he is indeed a Great writer.
Of those I have read, H.P. Lovecraft is by far my favorite. I guess if I had to choose one of his titles, "At the Mountains of Madness" would be my favorite, but I don't think it's long enuff to qualify for a novel. Maybe a "novlet", to use Larry Niven's term. Of the actual novel-length works, I'll go with The Colour out of Space as my favorite.
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Post by richardburton on Feb 11, 2007 15:40:37 GMT 1
There's one horror novel I read in my early teens which particularly sticks in my mind (sadly its name, and that of the author have escaped me!!! ;D). Appearing to be just another piece of obscure pulp fiction I found it whilst nosing around my dad's enormous pile of old books in the spare room. Basically the plot seemed to centre around a chap who was out running (marathon training or something) then suddenly something happens and he wakes up in a hospital (supposedly!) and one of his legs is missing. He's told he's been in a road accident and the limb couldn't be saved. Anyway, terror and helplessness increase as each successive morning he wakes up he finds another limb missing...until one morning consciousness appears and there's complete darkness, and he can't see or hear anything (you can see where this has gone...he's just a brain in a jar... ) Utterly chilling!! Anyway, I never got to find out the denouement because i started having nightmares about it and after mentioning the book to my mum she took it off me and hid it Don't know if anyone here can enlighten me or knows what I'm talking about!!? If so, I wouldn't mind getting myself a copy and trying it out again KR Sounds like a damn interesting read - I'd love to know what it was called or who wrote it. It reminds me of a short story of a drug dealer who is shipwrecked on a desert island and crippled in an accident, so ends up eating himself bit by bit to delay starvation. He uses his stash of drugs to make him high enough to chop his own legs off a piece at a time. |
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Post by David Faltskog on Feb 11, 2007 15:58:30 GMT 1
I,m sure that was read on Jackanory  D.F. |
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Post by Scifishocks on Feb 11, 2007 19:53:29 GMT 1
I,m sure that was read on Jackanory D.F. Yes, by Floella Benjamin. I can just imagine it. |
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Post by darkelastic on Feb 12, 2007 11:11:10 GMT 1
For horror (twisted, sexual horror) I read Clive Barker.
But, I have been revisiting classic horrors over the years, just to see what the great stories were like and thinking what effects these had at the time they were published - like War of the Worlds, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis' Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde and one of my favourite stories (Romero got the idea for Night of the Living Dead from this) Richard Matheson's I am Legend.
I also Like James Herbert (The Fog) and Brian Keane (The Rising).
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Post by richardburton on Feb 12, 2007 13:54:33 GMT 1
I,m sure that was read on Jackanory D.F. Yes, by Floella Benjamin. I can just imagine it. lol a scary thought! |
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Post by Xymon on Mar 14, 2007 13:22:57 GMT 1
For me, Stephen King's 'It' is the greatest horror novel ever written, but my favourite horror author was H.P. Lovecraft (still waiting for Guillermo del Toros "At the Mountains of Madness" to start filming!) until it lead me to Brian Lumley. His mythos novels were fabulous, but his Necroscope series is fantastic.
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Post by richardburton on Mar 14, 2007 13:58:58 GMT 1
It is one of my all time favourites too - hard to beat.
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;D). Appearing to be just another piece of obscure pulp fiction I found it whilst nosing around my dad's enormous pile of old books in the spare room. 
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