I love horror, although I mostly stick to Stephen King (as anyone that answered my last question/s will know!) Are there any authors that others would recommend? I'm not too interested in the sci-fi side of things (e.g. I never liked King's Dark Tower series), but I do like a good creepy horror. Any suggestions?
2007-10-24 16:37:26 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Thanks so far...all sound promising. I'd just to apologise for the thumbs-down fairy who's apparently been visiting almost every one of you. It's not me, I promise!
2007-10-24 17:00:51 · update #1
Thanks H-Man, and everyone for your answers so far. It looks like the thumbs-down fairy is still around...
2007-10-25 06:14:02 · update #2
Larry, you're a sweetheart :)
2007-10-25 16:07:41 · update #3
Bently Little
Jack Ketchum
Robert R McCammon (Great)
Peter Straub (Flaoting Dragon amd Shawdowland)
HP Lovecraft for some creepy stories
Douglas Clegg
Sctott Nicholson
2007-10-24 16:48:44 · answer #1 · answered by Timoc 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
If you like James Patterson and Michael Connelly, you might like... Robert Crais James Lee Burke Jeffery Deaver Jonathan Kellerman Dennis Lehane John Sandford Some of my fav mystery authors, in no particular order: Lilian Jackson Braun Carole Nelson Douglas Camille Minichino M. R. Sellars Karen Irving Jasper Fforde Sandra Tooley Lee Driver Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Agatha Christie Harry Kemelman Margaret Truman P. D. James Matthew Pearl Martha C. Lawrence Ellery Queen Ralph McInery Tony Hillerman Erle Stanley Gardner Susan Wittig Albert
2016-05-25 17:20:37 · answer #2 · answered by marietta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite horror story is "The Haunting of Hill House," by Shirley Jackson. The best psychological horror story I know. If you've never read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or Bram Stoker's Dracula, you should. Still have some scary moments, and give you a good idea of the beginnings of the genre. Also, Edgar Allen Poe's books are a good place to start.
2007-10-24 16:47:43 · answer #3 · answered by A Plague on your houses 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Try "The Ax" by Donald Westlake. A middle-aged man is laid off and can't get a new job in his field. So, he decides to kill off the competition. A bit more of a crime thriller than horror story, but still very enjoyable.
If you want something realistic, why not try actual crime stories? There are a few good ones on Charlie Starkweather and the like.
2007-10-24 17:14:38 · answer #4 · answered by Kevin k 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am not into horror but I have been a thumbs up fairy and given all of the people who had a thumbs down a thumbs up, and you a star.
2007-10-24 17:33:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Bret Easton Ellis' grimly parodic novel, American Psycho (1991), tells the story of a yuppie serial killer named Patrick Bateman, who is an aggressive, disaffected psychopath by his own admission: "I am without a single, identifiable human emotion, except for greed and disgust... I am simply not there."Like "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" and A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho is a mordant social commentary written in the first-person, which adopts (albeit ironically) the skewed point-of-view and corrupt belief system of its anti-hero protagonist. As such, the reader is given a first-hand account of Bateman's psychopathology, which, by extension, becomes a murderous, hyperbolic parody of the corporate consumer (i.e., "yuppie") culture of urban America at the end of the twentieth century. Bateman's obsessive materialism is revealed as a compensation for his basic emotional emptiness and vapid social life. Although he initially derives a measure of satisfaction from his secret life as a brutal sadist and murderer, by the end of the novel not even sadistic sex and killing can arouse any kind of feeling in him. Have you read this before? I am like you, I tend to stay away from sci-fi, sides, I am more into undertanding how real people can be, how their minds work, how they can do such morbid things to people. But, that's just me, I have always wonder what makes a person tick!
2007-10-25 17:10:23 · answer #6 · answered by aprilmacfadden 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I love Richard Laymon for creepy weird horror storys, and I think you will like him too if you already like Stephen King novels. Bite and night in lonesome october are two of my faveorite Laymon books, but I think maybe the beast house series might amuse you more.
2007-10-26 11:15:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
A dark and slightly twisted tale is called 'Reaper Man' by Terry Pratchett. It's part of the Discworld Series but stands out from the rest, being of a strange concept/storyline.
2007-10-24 17:15:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Them little notes that my girlfriend leaves me when I have the day off work and I have to tidy up.
S.K. done a book of short stories which included Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. Koontz is an alternative, but I'd be amazed if you haven't tried that yet.
To be REALLY scared, try Not Now Bernard.
2007-10-24 17:00:44 · answer #9 · answered by johnstonemac 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The only author to have written in the horror genre I'd suggest is Edgar Allan Poe.
2007-10-24 17:06:09 · answer #10 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋