Which horror books r worth reading??

Question

Wher can I get Ebooks

Answer 1

anything that stephen king wrote

Answer 2

The Haunting of Hill House
The Shining
Pet Semetary
Dracula
Frankenstein
Interview With A Vampire

Answer 3

“During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.” Thus Edgar Allan Poe opened his story of “The Fall of the House of Usher” in 1839. In this beautifully crafted sentence he captured so much that is essential to the horror story—darkness, ominous solitude, foreboding calm, apprehension and uncertainty, and a deep feeling of melancholy that could soon turn to fear.

Many kinds of fiction are self-explanatory: mysteries, Westerns, love stories, spy thrillers, and science fiction define themselves by the terms used to name them. The horror story is less easily defined, perhaps because other types of fiction so often use the trappings of terror to enhance their plots. Charles Dickens used the vehicle of an old-fashioned ghost story to tell ‘A Christmas Carol', but that book is not a horror story. Nor does a Grimm brothers fairy tale such as “Hänsel and Gretel,” with its child-devouring witch, belong to the genre.

The nature of the horror story is best indicated by the title of the 1990s television series Tales from the Darkside. Human beings have always acknowledged that there is evil in the world and a dark side to human nature that cannot be explained except perhaps in religious terms. This evil may be imagined as having an almost unlimited power to inspire anxiety, fear, dread, and terror in addition to doing actual physical and mental harm.

In the tale of horror quite ordinary people are confronted by something unknown and fearful, which can be neither understood nor explained in reasonable terms. It is the emphasis on the unreasonable that lies at the heart of horror stories.

This kind of literature arose in the 18th century at the start of a movement called Romanticism. The movement was a reaction against a rational, ordered world in which humanity was basically good and everything could be explained scientifically. The literary type that inspired the horror story is Gothic fiction, tales of evil, often set in sinister medieval surroundings (see Gothic Fiction). This original kind of horror fiction has persisted to the present. An early 20th-century master of the type was H.P. Lovecraft, most of whose stories appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. A more recent writer was Stephen King, author of ‘Carrie' (1974), ‘The Shining' (1977), ‘Pet Sematary' (1984), ‘Misery' (1987), and ‘Rose Madder' (1995)

Answer 4

The Heart Shaped Box, but Joe Hill

Answer 5

The following authors are worth reading
Stephen King
Clive Barker
H.P. Lovecraft
Anne Rice
and if you want to read the same book over and over again
Dean Koonz

Answer 6

My personal favorites are anything written by Dean Koontz. His novels cover everything from murders, to psycos, to the supernatural. Sometimes all three combined. His books are very fast paced, page turners, that dont get boring and keep you entertained. Some of the better ones are The Face, Watchers, and Hideaway.

Answer 7

The Shining
The Exorcist
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
The Vampire Lestadt

Answer 8

Bram Stoker's Dracula is must read book if you are a complete vamp freak. It has got spine chilling horror. Rather irrespective of the fact whether you like vamps or not it is a must read for all bookworms and horror loving people.

I have personally reda that book 15 times and every time i read it sends chills down my spine, sometimes nightmares! and once i finish reading i check my windows, doors if they locked and hide my self under my bedsheet and go to sleep!

Do read it, you will never regret it!

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Answer 9

Seize the night by Dean Koontz

Answer 10

Carrion Comfort -Dan Simmons

Answer 11

Anything by Dean Koontz.