Help I am desparate for a good book.?

Question

I am stuck and need your help. I love books with ghost's and haunted houses and books with history. Ive read all the average books from s king to c barker but am now stuck. Please please can anyone advise me of a really good horror story book or a really good book theyve read. If I dont get a book soon I will go out of my mind!!

Answer 1

You can't beat J Sheridan Le Fanu an Irish gothic horror writer who was around before Stoker and far superior, try Madam Crowls Ghost and In A Glass Darkly. Or theres M.R.James another gothic horror writer. Algernon Blackwood yet another gothic horror writer. Or try Kim Newman Anno Dracula its a fab book combining vampires and Jack the Ripper.

Answer 2

Have you tried Dean Koontz - I absolutely love his books. He is kinda thriller and horror and mystery rolled into one. My favourites of his are Seize the Night and Fear Nothing. The main character has a serious condition that means he cannot go out in daylight or even be under flourescent bulbs. They gripped me right from the start. He's also written some Frankenstien books about modern day New Orleans.
Also Anne Rice - she often writes about Vampires, (she wrote Interview with a Vampire) and there is one book which took me ages to get through but it was brilliant, it's called The Witching Hour.

Answer 3

I'm right in the middle of a 'James Herbert' at the moment - "Nobody True"

Storyline?

"I wasn't there when I died... I was having one of those 'out-of-body' experiences .... somebody murdered me while I was away... they left nothing for me to come back to...

It's REALLY good... so far...

(On the page facing the opening of Chapter One there is a quote from Woody Allen - “It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” - the fact that this single sentence seems to have inspired James Herbert to write this whole story is mind-boggling!)

Oh, just finished reading the 5 'Earth's Children' books by Jean M Auel - first one being "Clan of the Cave Bear". Pre-history without pre-hysteria.

Before that it was "His Dark Materials" by Phillip Pullman.

If you are a cat lover try Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams - it does for cats what Watership Down did for rabbits.

Hope these suggestions are useful to you.

Answer 4

Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris! Wonderful haunting book!

Answer 5

I'm more of a non-fiction reader. Check out "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking. It's a really interesting book about the universe and how it came to be.

Answer 6

hi I'm an avid bookworm hence the name, I'm not really into ghost books but i have come across a few good authors in my time, im more of a gruesome, horror, thriller type person but anyway the authors i would recommend are Graham Masterton, Shaun Hutson, Jeffery Deaver, Tess Gerittsen, Karin Slaughter, Jodi Picoult (though she isn't really a horror writer more tragic life) and James Patterson are all really good reads, good luck its awful when you haven't got a good book to get into.

Answer 7

Have you tried Neil Gaiman - perhaps American Gods/Anansi Boys or Neverwhere? Not quite about ghosts per sae, but he writes horror/fantasy with a nod to history/mythology. He has an online blog (can't remember the address, but is easily found by googling his name) which includes sample chapters of his work.

Answer 8

Try books by Jodi Picoult and Cecelia Ahern

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
Inconceivable by Ben Elton.

Otherwise try these websites:

http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/
http://www.librarything.com/suggester
http://www.whichbook.net/
http://www.suggestionbook.com/index.cfm
http://www.farmingtonlibct.org/whattoreadnext.htm

Answer 9

The St. Leger trilogy by Susan Carroll, its usually with the romance novels:

* The Bridefinder
* The Night Drifter
* Midnight Bride

That's three for the price of one!

Answer 10

For a classic set of ghost stories try those by MR James. It set the genre for years and years to come and even modern supernatural fiction draw on the influences.