well i am a huge horror fan and want some horror books for x-mas like i know i want silence of lambs but i need some other horror books i dont care how long they are i LOVE to READ so give me some ideas and i might chose you for best answer o and i am 12 years old so if that helps so let it be <3 always
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2007-11-30 14:30:35 · 16 answers · asked by haley 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
o and no cirque du freak books i read the first three then i got mad cause mty school library didnt have the fourth one so i got really pissed off
2007-11-30 14:38:47 · update #1
of course, anything by Stephen King, Dean Koontz or John Saul.
You can also try Clive Barker, but he may be a little adult for you...and weird. Also try Robert McCammon
Anne Rice's vampire books (start with Interview with the Vampire) are good. Also her Mayfair Witches series is excellent...The WItching Hour is the first one and it is one of my favorite books.
I love horror too...a good horror book is hard to find!!
ADDED INFO: Swan Song mentioned below by Cherrycokegirl is by Robert Mccammon, mentioned above here.
2007-11-30 15:55:23 · answer #1 · answered by irvingfan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I liked the "Wither" trilogy by J G Passarella
and here is a list from the internet....
I am legend by Richard Matheson is really really good and it will be cool to see how the movie is different....
Powells Books Horror Top 10
Top Selling Books for Friday, November 30th 2007
1 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
2 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
3 A Lick of Frost: A Meredith Gentry Novel (Meredith Gentry Novels) by Laurell K. Hamilton
4 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
5 Brother Odd (Odd Thomas Novels) by Dean Koontz
6 Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
7 American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
8 Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
9 Haunted: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
10 House of Leaves: A Novel by Mark Z. Danielewski
2007-11-30 14:37:25 · answer #2 · answered by wildfl0wer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well... Swan Song. I can't remember the author, but a lady at a bookstore recommended it to me whan I was your age. It's like 900 pages, and about a crazy postapocalyptic world after the US has been nuked and everything is all anarchy and radiated by the bombs. Pretty damn good, though.
ALSO, have you read any true crime books? Ann Rule writes true novels about real killers, and they go so in depth into the lives of the people involved, they read like fiction, the detail is amazing. She even was (coincidentally) friends with Ted Bundy (the serial killer) before he got caught, so her book The Stranger Beside Me about him is great (I was scared to leave my front door unlocked for months!) Some of her books might be a bit much for a 12 year old, but I was your age when I started reading them. But I've read every one of her books and love them all, they're fascinating.
The only other thing I can think of is Christopher Pike. He's kinda old school, he was writing young adult horror when I was your age (oh god, 10 years ago), "Last Vampire" series was a favorite.
2007-11-30 16:21:45 · answer #3 · answered by Who's That Girl? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BARTIMEAUS is good. Its by Jonathan Stroud; and its a trilogy(3 books)...really I'm not that far; but it has gotten great reviews. Jonathan Stroud also makes a whole bunch of other books too. But I can't believe I don't know more...I'm around your age, I love to read too..and Horror Books are awesome. oh, maybe try, Goosebumps? there is this book called Wolf Rider. Its by someone named AVI..and it seemed scary in the beginning..I didn't end up finishing it....sorry I can't think of more!! ^^;;
2007-11-30 14:37:10 · answer #4 · answered by PeppermintPandora<3 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
2007-11-30 14:39:17 · answer #5 · answered by Helen of Troy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm thirteen and my favourite book in the whole world are the books by author, DARREN SHAN, thats, D-A-R-R-E-N S-H-A-N! READ THEM, THEYRE AMAZING! And in 2008 there is a movie about his Cirque Du Freak series of books ! His two best selling and (my fave) series are : Cirque Du Freak and The Demonata !
2007-11-30 14:35:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything my Stephen King, if you have an adult's style.
I say try "Horowitz Horror" and "More Horowitz Horror" by Anthony Horowitz. http://www.amazon.com/Horowitz-Horror-Stories-Youll-Never/dp/0399244891/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196480573&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/More-Horowitz-Horror-Anthony/dp/0399245197/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196480573&sr=8-2
Or, you could go for the Goosebumps and others by R.L. Stine. They're written for kids your age.
2007-11-30 14:45:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
im not sure if it is horror or suspense but it was a great book and a little freaky the title is SKIN by ted dekker
2007-11-30 14:34:23 · answer #8 · answered by rocket boy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try Stephen king, Joe hill, dean Koontz, or the Hannibal series.there are some v.c andrews or even some adult R.L Stine books.
2007-12-01 03:44:19 · answer #9 · answered by rockinghorse2005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ima huge fan of horror too, but my most my books are at my dads:
call waiting, the haunting hour, and dont think about it by R.L. Stine, accually basicly anything by R.L. Stine (he invented goosebumps too)
clues from killers by dirk c. gibson
and evil by william hart
thats basicly all i have with me
sorry
2007-11-30 14:36:22 · answer #10 · answered by Ashes 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋