jayfatha: Horror Novel Recs

jayfatha 09.27.11	Please and thank you
LumpSum 09.27.11	silence of the lambs
LumpSum 09.27.11	a clockwork orange
AngelofDeath 09.27.11	Lovecraft even though he writes short stories and not novels.
Blindsided 09.27.11	Stephen King is pretty much ace when it comes to horror.
Hyperion1001 09.27.11	Clive Baker. Check out Weaveworld, read it a while ago and it was great.
omnipanzer 09.27.11	Tick Tock - Dean Koontz Stephen King - Cycle of the Werewolf Stephen King - Firestarter Stephen King - The Shining Stephen King - It Stephen King - The Stand Richard Matheson - I Am Legend Max Brooks - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes H.P. Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror Richard Bachman (Stephen King) - The Richard Bachman Books. Clive Barker - Imajica Clive Barker - Books of Blood (collection 1-6) That'll get you started. *About ten other Stephen King books.
omnipanzer 09.27.11	* "The Bachman Books"
Acrosstheshield13 09.27.11	Anything by Richard Matheson.
Vesper 09.27.11	Since you dudes are already here, can someone rec me a horror book that will ACTUALLY frighten me? :) Lovecraft is great and all, but I'm always just, like, cool story, bro at the end. Stephen King wasn't scary when I was twelve, so definitely way beyond that. The closest a book has gotten to scaring me is House of Leaves, only because it made me ready to break out my tinfoil hat and a tape measure, haha.
AngelofDeath 09.27.11	I like Lovecraft more for the way he writes than the stories themselves. Can't say I've ever really read something that scared me, so I dunno. Same with movies.
MO 09.27.11	Try 1408 from Stephen King. It's a collection of short stories but two in particular are amazingly spooky: The first one is The Man in the Black Suit and the second is The Road Virus Heads North. The Road Virus is really freaky.
Vesper 09.27.11	Yeah, I feel the same way about Lovecraft. You should check out House of Leaves, if you haven't read it. Fucking crazy with some legitimately terrifying passages (if you've got a good imagination on you, haha).
Hyperion1001 09.27.11	Haha i was gonna rec you House of Leaves. Other than that i could recommend anything by Glen Beck but thats a different kind of scary...
jayfatha 09.27.11	Good shit guys, i'll get to the library asap
theacademy 09.27.11	just about all of matheson
Satellite 09.27.11	goosebumps
Trebor. 09.27.11	Scary stories to tell in the dark
Vesper 09.27.11	^ Those are only so good because Stephen Gammell is a fucking amazing illustrator.
Trebor. 09.27.11	Those illustrations are amazing
DeafMetal 09.27.11	bram stoker's dracula and obligatory lovecraft
Hyperion1001 09.27.11	"Scary stories to tell in the dark" Still own all these books and they are soooo good.
TomArnoldsArmpit 09.27.11	My spine has been tingled
Vesper 09.27.11	The only problem with the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is that every time I see one of those illustrations, I feel like Dryden is watching me.
AngelofDeath 09.27.11	Lol. I was just about to mention Dry Bones.
Acanthus 09.27.11	List is going to make me break out my Lovecraft tome tonight and start at it again
foreverendeared 09.27.11	Goosebumps
paxman 09.27.11	Tome* And you guys are idiots if you think Lovecraft is a good writer.
Acanthus 09.27.11	Thanks paxman, I thought it looked a bit odd. What's your take on him?
paxman 09.27.11	Why so congenial, you've disarmed me.
Acanthus 09.27.11	It's just me I'm afraid, I like Lovecraft but I've never really met someone who didn't so I'm genuinely curious.
telebyrd 09.27.11	The Terror by Dan Simmons Arctic Voyage gets stuck in the ice. Historical Survival Horror Fiction
paxman 09.27.11	Hey, stop stealing my rec telebyrd
paxman 09.27.11	Acanthus: Don't get me wrong, his stories are entertaining enough--and compelling enough (I rather enjoyed the one about the fish people, can't remember the name)--but I find his writing too rich, cloying. Far too many adjectives, far too much bloated prose.
Vesper 09.27.11	"Why so congenial, you've disarmed me." Acanthus's not-so-secret weapon, every time.
Acanthus 09.27.11	He reminds me of Poe, and Poe of him somewhat. I can definitely see you're point, though to me it makes his writing iconic in a way. Thanks Vesper, my secrets getting out now!
telebyrd 09.27.11	Primus Sucks
paxman 09.27.11	Opening paragraphs of The Nameless City by Lovecraft: "When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed. I was traveling in a parched and terrible valley under the moon, and afar I saw it protruding uncannily above the sands as parts of a corpse may protrude from an ill-made grave. Fear spoke from the age-worn stones of this hoary survivor of the deluge, this great-grandfather of the eldest pyramid; and a viewless aura repelled me and bade me retreat from antique and sinister secrets that no man should see, and no man else had dared to see.. Remote in the desert of Araby lies the nameless city, crumbling and inarticulate, its low walls nearly hidden by the sands of uncounted ages. It must have been thus before the first stones of Memphis were laid, and while the bricks of Babylon were yet unbaked. There is no legend so old as to give it a name, or to recall that it was ever alive; but it is told of in whispers around campfires and muttered about by grandams in the tents of sheiks so that all the tribes shun it without wholly knowing why. It was of this place that Abdul Alhazred the mad poet dreamed of the night before he sang his unexplained couplet: That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons death may die." Opening paragraph from Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone: "Ree Dolly stood at break of day on her cold front steps and smelled coming flurries and saw meat. Meat hung from trees across the creek. The carcasses hung pale of flesh with a fatty gleam from low limbs of saplings in the side yards. Three halt haggard houses formed a kneeling rank on the far creekside and each had two or more skinned torsos dangling by rope from sagged limbs, venison left to the weather for two nights and three days so the early blossoming of decay might round the flavor, sweeten that meat to the bone."
paxman 09.27.11	Which is more fluid, more lyrical? And I highly recommend Winter's Bone to any fan of literature.
Acanthus 09.27.11	I'll have to keep my eye out for it then, and personally I really enjoy both of them.
telebyrd 09.27.11	paxman, i don't see your rec above mine. If you think Lovecraft is a bit bloated, check out some of Librovox Recordings (audio books) specifically, The Haunter of the Dark
telebyrd 09.27.11	I have a question for you guys: Longshot, but does anyone remember the Bruce Coville anthologies? There are two stories I read as a kid, but can no long find. One concerns a portal under a bed, and a kid gets pulled into some netherrealm and must serve his sentence by whispering nightmares through other portals to other children the other is about a dollmaker's nephew who must live with the dollmaker for a summer. Some kind of grim reaper comes to eat children while they sleep. The dollmaker's nephew makes a doll with no eyebrows and leaves it in the bed to trick the reaper. Any help?
paxman 09.27.11	Telebyrd: I've recommended The Terror and other works by Dan Simmons (Hyperion, Carrion Comfort, Ilium/Olympos, Drood) countless times on this site. Edit: Is that audio recordings of Lovecraft's works? If so, I don't understand the recommendation. Thanks, though.
telebyrd 09.27.11	The Librovox recording of "The Haunter in the Dark" is an audio recording, with sound effects and a back-track. It spices things up a bit. I own Hyperion, but haven't read it. Currently reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Should I go for Hyperion next? The Terror is definitely one of my favorite books.
paxman 09.27.11	Well, Hyperion is nothing like The Terror, but it's definitely one of my favorite spec fic works I've ever read (and you'd have to read The Fall of Hyperion as well). If you're looking for more in the way of horror, you should check our his Carrion Comfort. One scene in particular made me go "what the fuck" out loud as I was sitting on the can.
paxman 09.27.11	I read the DT series a few years back, number five was definitely the low point. I read the last one in two days. I'll check out the audio recording, because you've piqued my interest.
paxman 09.27.11	herp
telebyrd 09.27.11	Carrion Comfort it is
paxman 09.27.11	I have a signed limited illustrated edition of Carrion Comfort that's worth like $500. I also have a paperback that I could mail to you.
telebyrd 09.27.11	That's a nice gesture, Paxman. I'm sure I will come across it when I'm ready, I have many books in my shelf that need a good page-turning. Next up, Dark Tower III, then, Dune. Cheers
klap 09.27.11	the terror is so good. dark tower series rules as well although it does kind of go off the rails
paxman 09.27.11	Wow, I thought Dan Simmons was relatively obscure.
Bandido 09.27.11	I know you siad you're over Stephen King but I just read "Misery" and it was terrific and pretty fucking startling at some points. Also, "I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson is brilliant
tiefighter182 09.27.11	Richard Laymon is pretty awesome with gore and unsettling atmosphere. Definitely worth giving a try.