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I'm in search of some good horror novels. I have read most Stephen King stuff. I think I'll go pick up a copy of The Exorcist today to re-read.
Other suggestions?

Thanks, Jew! I legitimately laughed out loud.

P.S. go fuck yourself.

You could go with some of the classics if you've never read them, or haven't read them as an adult:

Frankenstein, Shelley
Dracula, Stoker
Heart of Darkness, Conrad
Jeckyl and Hyde, Stevenson
We, Zamyatin (political horror novel)
Pop. 1280, Jim Thompson (Killer Inside Me is great too)

Robert Bloch, Edgar Allen Poe, Ray Bradbury, and HP Lovecraft each wrote a lot of good stuff.

FWIW, I didn't particularly enjoy Heart of Darkness (not one of his better written novels), but it's short and I'm glad I read it.

I noticed today that Barnes&Noble has a complete fiction collection of Lovecraft in a one-volume leather hardback for $20.

Lovecraft wrote a bunch of great stories. Most of them are rather short, which makes for a nice, quick read.

Meh on the classics.

Steven King, Dean Koontz...those fuckers can tell a spooky story. Some of Joe Lansdale's stuff are legitimate horror, but will be harder to find.

Stoker's Dracula is legit good

Schlegel wrote:I noticed today that Barnes&Noble has a complete fiction collection of Lovecraft in a one-volume leather hardback for $20.

Some of the greatest short stories ever. The atmosphere in stories like The Call of Cthulu is incredible.

Dan Simmons first novel, "Song of Kali" isn't fully a horror novel but it definitely has horror elements.

Turdacious wrote: Heart of Darkness, Conrad

I would have never thought of HoD as a horror novel.

Herbert West, Reanimator is, IMO, Lovecraft's creepiest story.

Guy de Maupassant has some creepy stuff.

I just found this site, haven't perused it yet, but it might bif see a gooder.

I wonder if seeahill is there?


http://www.classicreader.com/author/105/

cunch wrote:Guy de Maupassant has some creepy stuff.

Good find. Incredible writer. You ever read the one he wrote about the paranoid old hippie who always thought his cabin was on fire, stole weed from the neighborhood kids' stash, and saw bears everywhere? That one was creepy, although entirely unrealistic.

Robert McCammon and Clive Barker are essentials.

Turdacious wrote:

cunch wrote:Guy de Maupassant has some creepy stuff.

Good find. Incredible writer. You ever read the one he wrote about the paranoid old hippie who always thought his cabin was on fire, stole weed from the neighborhood kids' stash, and saw bears everywhere? That one was creepy, although entirely unrealistic.

YOu're thinking of Strongman, the Doug Hepburn story.

The Books of Blood by Clive Barker. It's a collection of short stories and was the tome that inspired the films Hellraiser, The Midnight Meat Train and Rawhead Rex.

The Books of Blood by Clive Barker. It's a collection of short stories and was the tome that inspired the films Hellraiser, The Midnight Meat Train and Rawhead Rex.

Monts wrote: Rawhead Rex.

Thanks, I had misplaced that memory. Just awesome. I was 9 when the movie was released.