2007-07-31 09:10:05 · 15 answers · asked by Jen 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The master himself: H.P. Lovecraft!
THE LURKING FEAR
AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
PICKMAN'S MODEL
HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR
THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP
THE HORROR AT REDHOOK
These are some of the scariest stories ever written and will "creep-you-out-of-your-skin"! For a better effect, read at night alone in an alley.
P.S. Stephen King stories really really suck.
2007-07-31 09:28:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
H.P. Lovecraft (beware, his stories are wordy), Shirley Jackson, Richard Matheson... Look up a book called "The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time" and use your imagination as you read. Forget modern technology and read something really scary, something that invokes horror from the most mundane things...
Enjoy!
2007-07-31 16:38:10 · answer #2 · answered by B.D. J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Old Stephen King (Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining, Christine, Cujo, The Stand, etc.),
Peter Straub - co-wrote The Talisman with Stephen King
These are two of my favourite horror authors.
2007-07-31 09:15:45 · answer #3 · answered by Am_I_Bluffin'?? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stephen King's The Shining, Night Shift, and Misery.
Everyone I know that's read the Shining says that it's the scariest book they know of, and this short story from Night Shift called "The Boogeyman" made me stare at my closet every night before I went to sleep for a week.
2007-07-31 09:31:12 · answer #4 · answered by Nämenlos 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I read Koontz and King and Patterson (Patterson is graphic enough to be on the "horror" list in my mind). I quit reading Saul because his villains are all children, and I find that this is not to my liking.
2007-07-31 09:35:40 · answer #5 · answered by felines 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on age, RL Stine's Goosebumps series, Steven King, or the Cirque Du Freak series.
2007-07-31 09:13:51 · answer #6 · answered by Perfect_Paige 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I recommend any book by Dean Koontz. They arent gory horror but more like thrillers! He is an awesome writer!
2007-07-31 09:14:34 · answer #7 · answered by kimberly M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
They apparently just made it into a movie (not yet released)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUDgGy4a65k
I found the leather bound 1rst edition copy at a yard sale for like $2.00.. about 8 years ago and have made EVERYONE read it..
2007-07-31 20:19:58 · answer #8 · answered by kaijawitch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you like vampires, try Anne Rice for a traditional type of vampire. For more gruesome bloodsuckers, you HAVE to read the necroscope series by Brian Lumley!
2007-07-31 09:21:47 · answer #9 · answered by GeoYo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen King is the King of Horror!!
2007-07-31 09:17:50 · answer #10 · answered by puanani 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋