If you like horror/dystopian/sci-fi, there is a great show on Netflix that is right up your alley. Have you heard of "LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS?" Season Three is coming out on May 20th.
Highly recommend that show, if you haven't seen it.
Including you, Chuck. If you have Netflix, I want you to see this series!
I'll grant Harris should have been included (though they might consider his stuff to be more crime than horror), but Little always strikes me as a deliberate King knock-off.
‘Uzumaki’ has got to be not just the most famous of his work, but probably the most famous work of the horror graphic novel medium. Who hasn’t come across the image of the girl with the spiral enveloping her eye?
Right!? I see people with that frame on shirts every now and then. The premises of his stories are incredible. I cant even wrap my head around how he comes up with these ideas.
Nice! I just finished going through Something Wicked... classic. I liked The Cabin at the End of the World from Tremblay more than Head Full of Ghosts, but both are good. If I had to add? I love the Tales from the Gas Station series for Halloween. More fun than scary, but still a great journey.
But of course he is! I am blind as beyond fuck and I got a permanent case of Bell's Palsy in one eye ......... Yeah I slept with one eye open for 6 months.......at least I ain't ever gonna have to worry about glaucoma.....puff puff..........
.........all the stories that I have......the ones that mean something, the ones that should mean something, the unrelated but cool stories......... If I go to that time in life trying to read House of Leaves, it was chaos and madness........I absolutely loved the format, the fonts, the everything of that book. It was an adventure I can't wait to finish.......
“Haunted” could be moved up to the top 10 off of ‘Guts’ alone. Surprised they had Bret Easton Ellis’ “Lunar Park” there instead of “American Psycho”. Additionally, as much as I like Clive Barker’s “The Hellbound Heart”, I’d change it to his “Books of Blood” and move the spot up considerably. Finally, not just no mention of “The Silence of The Lambs", but no mention of the Hannibal Lecter books at all. For shame!
From Haunted, I love 'Guts', but my favourite is 'Exodus' (closely followed by 'Swan Song'). 'Exodus' had me squirming yet wanting to cry and then hold Director Denial.
I’m really surprised there is not a James Herbert novel on the list. The Rats and The Survivor were two of the most creepy books I read as a teen. I read everything he wrote, interspersed with Stephen King. Also maybe not quite horror, but Cormac McCarthy is a pretty nightmarish read.
I will add my thumbs-up to Come Closer by Sara Gran. But where is the Brian Hodge? I really loved his recent collection, Skidding Into Oblivion, and companion novella, The Immaculate Void. (Unfortunately both only available via audiobook currently, Scribd had them).
I haven’t read Negative Space. He’s usually got a short story in Ellen datlow’s best of the year horror collections, which is how I discovered him, so I’m slowly working my way backwards through his short story collections.
Just started Haunted. You inspired me to finally get a library card :/ lol. Found The Exorcist there but unhappy to see The Serpent and the Rainbow omitted.
Joe Hill's "20th Century Ghosts" is excellent. Also worth reading if you like creepy is "Let the Right One In" by John Ajide Lindqvist. (takes place in Sweden - disturbing.)
Is that the source material for the film?
If you like horror/dystopian/sci-fi, there is a great show on Netflix that is right up your alley. Have you heard of "LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS?" Season Three is coming out on May 20th.
Highly recommend that show, if you haven't seen it.
Including you, Chuck. If you have Netflix, I want you to see this series!
I'll grant Harris should have been included (though they might consider his stuff to be more crime than horror), but Little always strikes me as a deliberate King knock-off.
Junji Ito. Ive never been into horror, and Ito is the only manga Ive ever read, but it is some of the most creative stuff Ive ever seen.
‘Uzumaki’ has got to be not just the most famous of his work, but probably the most famous work of the horror graphic novel medium. Who hasn’t come across the image of the girl with the spiral enveloping her eye?
Right!? I see people with that frame on shirts every now and then. The premises of his stories are incredible. I cant even wrap my head around how he comes up with these ideas.
"The Enigma of Amigara Fault" messed me up for a while.
Is that the one with the holes?
Indeed! The cracks in that mountainside. Creepy shit lol
LOVED that one!
My 16 year-old "educated" me. Saw some of his work and was very impressed.
Nice! I just finished going through Something Wicked... classic. I liked The Cabin at the End of the World from Tremblay more than Head Full of Ghosts, but both are good. If I had to add? I love the Tales from the Gas Station series for Halloween. More fun than scary, but still a great journey.
Just finished The Handmaid's Tale (again) and if it's not a horror novel, I don't know what is.
I'd add The Trial by Kafka. That book was so terrifying to me.
I havent read that many horror books, mostly some Lovecraft and a couple of classics. I got to take notes on that one.
Sorry. Dracula made it in higher than the Exorcist? Wat? I want a recount!
House of leaves got shafted.
Got to get into that one. In the middle of Cleavenger’s Dermaphoria.
Edit: omg
Sounds like every story I’ve ever written.
ok. It's like the fourth time I'v heard this referenced in this group. I will have to take a peak!
You have to *read* it.
I wish I could reexperience reading it for the first time.
Just get ADHD brain like me and you’ll forget it all after a year and have to read it again!
yeah, why is that? kills me every time
I'm going to try like fuck to read that again after I get my bifocals.......its the best book I ever just stopped reading....... couldn't see lol
But of course he is! I am blind as beyond fuck and I got a permanent case of Bell's Palsy in one eye ......... Yeah I slept with one eye open for 6 months.......at least I ain't ever gonna have to worry about glaucoma.....puff puff..........
.........all the stories that I have......the ones that mean something, the ones that should mean something, the unrelated but cool stories......... If I go to that time in life trying to read House of Leaves, it was chaos and madness........I absolutely loved the format, the fonts, the everything of that book. It was an adventure I can't wait to finish.......
I’ve also read by narrator too. Did Zampano, Johnny, academics, Poems, etc. it makes it even weirder.
Word!
I don't read a whole lot of horror...
That being said - many moons ago I read 'Intensity' by Dean Koontz... It made bed time uneasy for a bit. 🤣
Love that book. It was edge of your seat ...
“Haunted” could be moved up to the top 10 off of ‘Guts’ alone. Surprised they had Bret Easton Ellis’ “Lunar Park” there instead of “American Psycho”. Additionally, as much as I like Clive Barker’s “The Hellbound Heart”, I’d change it to his “Books of Blood” and move the spot up considerably. Finally, not just no mention of “The Silence of The Lambs", but no mention of the Hannibal Lecter books at all. For shame!
From Haunted, I love 'Guts', but my favourite is 'Exodus' (closely followed by 'Swan Song'). 'Exodus' had me squirming yet wanting to cry and then hold Director Denial.
Lunar Park was the cat's meow. And yeah-no "Silence of the Lambs??"
One of my favorite horror novels is The Lives of Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/301727.Lives_of_the_Monster_Dogs
I don't know this one - I'll check it out
I really enjoyed it. It's more gothic and romantic than scary, you can really see the influence of classics Shelley and Stoker.
I’m really surprised there is not a James Herbert novel on the list. The Rats and The Survivor were two of the most creepy books I read as a teen. I read everything he wrote, interspersed with Stephen King. Also maybe not quite horror, but Cormac McCarthy is a pretty nightmarish read.
Great suggestions!
I will add my thumbs-up to Come Closer by Sara Gran. But where is the Brian Hodge? I really loved his recent collection, Skidding Into Oblivion, and companion novella, The Immaculate Void. (Unfortunately both only available via audiobook currently, Scribd had them).
Maybe? Probably? http://www.brianhodge.net/bibliography/novellas/in-the-negative-spaces/
I haven’t read Negative Space. He’s usually got a short story in Ellen datlow’s best of the year horror collections, which is how I discovered him, so I’m slowly working my way backwards through his short story collections.
We Need To Talk About Kevin still haunts me. How did this not make the list?
Just started Haunted. You inspired me to finally get a library card :/ lol. Found The Exorcist there but unhappy to see The Serpent and the Rainbow omitted.
Going back to 'The Exorcist' I always forget that very, very long prologue. That's always a hurdle.
I loved how The Exorcist explored different view points and cases and then tied every thing into the main story. So Krakauer and fabulous.
Goody. I just talked myself into re-reading it. It's been a while. A few of the book's passages have been haunting me lately.
Joe Hill's "20th Century Ghosts" is excellent. Also worth reading if you like creepy is "Let the Right One In" by John Ajide Lindqvist. (takes place in Sweden - disturbing.)