2007-07-20 13:15:18 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Those are my favorite type books too. I especially like the books that are a series, where each book has the same main characters, only each new book has a different story. At the same time, you get to follow the life of the main character.
John Sandford has a great series, called the Prey books. The very first novel in the series is Rules of Prey. Read that and you will see what the next one is to read — they all end with the word Prey.There's about 13 of them.
Stephen King is an obvious one. He just had a book out in paperback called Cell — it was fantastic — I couldn't put it down, and then my husband disappeared for 2 days until he finished it.
Jeffrey Deaver is a really good horror/psych. thriller author. I'm about to start reading The Bone Collector.
Gardner McKay wrote Toyer — creepy good.
Leonard S. Goldberg writes medical thrillers, such as 1) Deadly Care, 2) A Deadly Practice, and 3) Deadly Harvest
Dean Koontz is a well-known horror/thriller author. Some of his books I like; some are so-so — just read the jacket for the plot & see which ones you find interesting (he wrote dozens). I recently read Velocity — it was great.
Thomas Harris wrote 2 GREAT books: The Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs. Read The Red Dragon first - it's great. Oh, they made a movie about The Red Dragon — the first time they made it, they called the movie Manhunter, I don't know why, but it was great. The remake was actually called The Red Dragon, but it sucked compared to Manhunter. But don't dare watch the movie until you read the book :)
John Katzenbach has a bunch of good horror novels, such as The Madman's Tale and State of Mind.
Well, this is probably a good amount to start with; they can keep you going for several years!!
ENJOY!!
2007-07-20 13:46:11 · answer #1 · answered by palemalefriend 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dean Koontz and Stephen King. I am glad so many other readers are recommending them. The Stand by Stephen King is an epic and absolutely superb. Dean Koontz I would recommend Sieze the Night and Fear Nothing and anything else written around that time, plus the Brother Odd series. Also I recently read the Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert and that was brilliant.
You could also read Clive Barker - he did an amazing book called Weaveworld and also Nightbreed.
Jeffrey Deaver is very good but that is more in a police investigation book and if you have already seen the Bone Collector you will have trouble not imagining Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington whilst you read! If not he's very good. Also Karen Slaughter is very good.
One major recommendation from me (and it's not horror) but is a damn good read is The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. This is up there with some of the best books I have ever read and is about a man who time travels at any given time, he can't control where and when he goes and it's in no particular order. It's seen from his point and that it is a disease - it's totally unlike anything I've ever read and could not put it down.
Good on you for making the decision to get into reading, you won't look back!
2007-07-20 20:10:59 · answer #2 · answered by Jojotraveller 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stephen King novels are certainly a good option.
These are my faves:
Rose Madder
Misery
The Green Mile
Another couple I just thought of-sorry!
Pet Semetery
Salem's Lot
It
Misery was the first one I read, I think I was about 15. I was so hooked I just HAD to read more. 10 years later I'm still loving them. Stephen King IS a literary genius.
One last book, which started off my love of reading in the first place at age 12 was Lord Of The Flies by William Golding. Its about a group of children who find themselves marooned on an island, and the mini-community that they build.
On the one hand its an innocent story about a group of boys, but on the other, metaphorically speaking, its a story more about the dark side to man's nature and how it can be twisted. I have a copy of it to this day!!
2007-07-20 13:24:34 · answer #3 · answered by Loulla 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I read a book called "Spectres" (or maybe it was "Specters") I greatly enjoyed. Forget the name of the author but she wrote all sorts of Star Trek books but this one is mass scary, psychological thriller/horror. There can't be many books with that same exact title. Also Blood Rite or Blood Rites written in the 80's was very, very good. It starts with a woman about to be date raped and she runs then gets attacked by madmen that live in the hills and have axes all night and she's running and hiding. There is another more recent book with the same name but that is not the one I am referring to. Never read that. Totally different book. Also "Wormwood" by Poppy Z. Brite, very, very good short horror stories, can't put the book down. Her novels suck though. "Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi" by Brian Lumley kicks tail. Some of his other stuff maybe not so good but that collection of short horror stories among the best written since Edgar Alllen Poe I think. "The Watchers Out of Time" by August Derleth (though the cover said H.P. Lovecraft) I thoroughly enjoyed but the previous suggestions are higher priority ones.
2007-07-20 13:32:11 · answer #4 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Historically, the most interesting great people in the world were called, well, great: Alexander the Great (really interesting short life) Charlemagne (= Charles the Great) Peter the Great Catherine the Great Cyrus the Great Frederick the Great also Julius Caesar (some politics) Simon Bolivar (some politics) George Washington (some politics) Napolean Cleopatra (not really so great, but what a manipulator!) Richard the Lion-Hearted Captain Cook Jim Bowie (not so great, but real interesting) Tecumseh (the Native American) Hiawatha (sort of political) Prince Edward the Black Eric the Red Queen Elizabeth I (some politics) Lawrence of Arabia General Custer (world's greatest screw-up, some politics) Chief Joseph Jim
2016-04-01 04:24:00 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i cant remember the dudes name i'll have to google it, but back in the 70's he published a book called rats or was it lair? anyway i'll check. 2 secs
got it: james herbert "the rats" i read that when i was 7 or 8 years old. a nasty visceral book. obviously these arent the words of an 8 year olds report on what they read on holidays, but it pretty much sums the book up. there is a really disturbing horrific book called "flowers in the attic" based on a true story. but stick to all the recommendations on steven king. you cannot fail with steven king, guy is a genuis. he will never need to write an autobiography, a lot of his stories are based on his own personal tramua. reformed alcoholic out riding his bycicle one sunny day, out of nowhere a car smashes into him leaves him crumpled at the side of the road and speeds off. this happened about 10 years ago, hes got another good 10 stories in him because of that. heres a tip read "apt pupil" then watch the film its brilliant.
2007-07-20 20:38:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis
The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty
A Choir of Ill Children, by Tom Piccirilli
Anything by H.P Lovecraft
Anything by Clive Barker
2007-07-20 13:22:55 · answer #7 · answered by Jaysonic 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Here are books that I have read and reread
Ghoststory It takes a long time to meet all of the characters but it is very well worth it.
Salem's Lot by Steven King is great
Both of these are much better than the movies
2007-07-20 13:24:20 · answer #8 · answered by yo se 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Thomas Harris books - Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, Hanibal, Hanibal Rising. They're fantastic from the start. Also try -
Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme series (one of my favourites).
James Herbert books are great.
Cathy Reichs books keep me hooked. They're about a forensic anthropologist.
Also worth a try are Janet Evanovich books - Stephanie Plum series. (although not psychological thrillers, they're really good & funny & keep me entertained)
2007-07-22 07:00:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just about anything written by Dean Koontz or Stephen King for starters. Try It. Enjoy
2007-07-20 13:19:32 · answer #10 · answered by Space Alien Frerp 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋