hi224
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Post by hi224 on Oct 9, 2023 4:51:32 GMT
anybody?.
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Post by yggdrasil on Oct 9, 2023 8:16:16 GMT
Haven't really read much "Horror" since I was a kid, but James Herbert's "The Fog" looms large in my memory.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 9, 2023 14:50:59 GMT
Pet Sematary - Stephen King It - Stephen King The Funhouse - Dean Koontz The Woods Are Dark - Richard Laymon The Keep - F. Paul Wilson The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty The Survivor - James Herbert
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 9, 2023 14:54:08 GMT
Haven't really read much "Horror" since I was a kid, but James Herbert's "The Fog" looms large in my memory. The Fog is good. Other Herbert books I like are The Rats, Lair, The Survivor, Shrine, and The Spear.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Oct 9, 2023 17:41:36 GMT
Leaving out Stephen King (to avoid having to type out like 40 different King books), here are a few I can think of:
Twilight Eyes - Dean Koontz Watchers - Dean Koontz Summer of Night - Dan Simmons Carrion Comfort - Dan Simmons Neverland- Douglas Clegg Bird Box - Josh Malerman NOS4A2 - Joe Hill The Troop - Nick Cutter
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Post by Nalkarj on Oct 9, 2023 19:06:25 GMT
I mostly read short stories, rather than novels, for horror (read Robert Aickman!), but I thought Stephen King’s The Shining, Joe Hill’s NOS4A2, and Tom Tryon’s Harvest Home were all excellent, with Tryon’s the best of the three.
The late Peter Straub’s Ghost Story also has many excellent things in it, though I’m not sure it completely holds together (it’d make for a great miniseries, though).
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hi224
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Post by hi224 on Oct 10, 2023 3:41:41 GMT
I mostly read short stories, rather than novels, for horror (read Robert Aickman!), but I thought Stephen King’s The Shining, Joe Hill’s NOS4A2, and Tom Tryon’s Harvest Home were all excellent, with Tryon’s the best of the three. The late Peter Straub’s Ghost Story also has many excellent things in it, though I’m not sure it completely holds together (it’d make for a great miniseries, though). My issue with Harvest Home was it felt a tad predictable, as soon as he meets Robert Dodd as well.
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Post by Nalkarj on Oct 10, 2023 20:17:44 GMT
I mostly read short stories, rather than novels, for horror (read Robert Aickman!), but I thought Stephen King’s The Shining, Joe Hill’s NOS4A2, and Tom Tryon’s Harvest Home were all excellent, with Tryon’s the best of the three. The late Peter Straub’s Ghost Story also has many excellent things in it, though I’m not sure it completely holds together (it’d make for a great miniseries, though). My issue with Harvest Home was it felt a tad predictable, as soon as he meets Robert Dodd as well. {Spoiler}I can sort of understand this criticism (plot-wise, it’s basically Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” crossed with the still-creepy BBC teleplay Robin Redbreast), but I thought Tryon handled his characters so well that, even though I guessed where the book was going, I kept thinking, Well, he wouldn’t actually go there, right? I mean, the Widow Fortune wouldn’t do that?
Tor.com reviewer Grady Hendrix nicely summed this up:I thought Widow Fortune is an excellent character, by the way—if she were too sweet, we’d be suspicious of her, but she seems to be a kind person with a tough exterior, the kind of person I like, so I didn’t want to think she’d do things this horrible.
That Tryon makes her horrible things seem just as in-character as her kindness is both scary and a tribute to his characterization skills. And he was able to let me suspend my disbelief for such an unbelievable premise (human-sacrificing village in Connecticut?).
Good on you for predicting the Dodd twist—I didn’t put two and two together on that. In fact, I thought Tryon’s clue-planting was just as good as his character-drawing.
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