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Recommend me a really good Horror/Thriller please
Blood & guts, monsters, vampires and the like do not move me at all.
I want a book that'll get under my skin, that'll make me afraid to turn out the light for fear of what I will imagine...something that will stay with me after I've turned the last page...
I've read all the usual ones, The Exorcist, Amityville, lots of James Herbert, Stephen King & Dean Koontz etc
What else can I read? Any suggestions?
I want a book that'll get under my skin, that'll make me afraid to turn out the light for fear of what I will imagine...something that will stay with me after I've turned the last page...
I've read all the usual ones, The Exorcist, Amityville, lots of James Herbert, Stephen King & Dean Koontz etc
What else can I read? Any suggestions?
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/So-Cold-River-Michael-Koryta/dp/0340998229/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289736890&sr=1-1
Manhattan Ghost Story is a another good one,cant recall author.A floow up was equally worth reading.
Thanks x
Terrifying and brilliant. It kept me awake for weeks.. not just the horror but just thinking about the actual story.
Another vote for "The Pariah" by Graham Masterton. Also "Tengu" by the same author.
"I Was Dora Suarez", "The Devil's Home on Leave" and "Dead Man Upright" by Derek Raymond.
that really stayed with me , it's so realistic and believable , really quite disturbing
Well, anything by him actually.
I totally agree. A stunning book, but many find it difficult to read due to the style. I'm kind of obsessed with it myself and own 4 copies... Roll on his new book, "The Familiar".
The Santaroga Barrier, by Frank Herbert.
Messiah, by Gore VIdal.
The Mind Game, by Norman Spinrad
(Also Bug Jack Barron, Spinrad).
Oh yeah, The Collector - above - is good, but a longer work by Fowles is The Magus.
Camp Concentration and Priest, by Tom DIsch
I love Ramsey Campbell- funnily enough The Hungry Moon was the first novel of his I read. It's definitely one of his best. More recently, I thought The Grin Of The Dark was superb, but yeah, pretty much anything by him is great.
That's easy: Stephen King's It - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stephen-King/dp/0340951451/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290356283&sr=1-1. It's an excellent horror read and, trust me on this one, it will put you off clowns for life!
Another vote for House of Leaves. I am reading it for the first time at the moment and although it is by no means a straight-forward read I just can't leave it alone. I keep telling myself I won't read it before bed anymore as I just end up lying awake thinking about it... but i can't help myself.
Worth the effort for sure.
Wait til you read it the second or the third time - that's when you start to spot things you missed previously. It took him ten years to write and you can tell. I've never read anything so multi-layered and truly terrifying in my life.
I've only read it the once, but I keep meaning to go back to it. Never got round to reading Only Revolutions, though I do have a copy.
Now that one is really hard work. Start at one end, read eight pages, turn it over, read eight pages, turn it over... It's brilliantly done though, with exactly 90 words per "chunk" of text, and all written in prose. If you shop around you can find a hardback copy with lots of colour text too (a bit like some of my copies of HoL).
Apparently his next book, "The Familiar", has 27 volumes...
you dont say whether you liked the Exorcist (I loved it)
if so
The Satanist by Dennis Wheatley
freaked me out