Totally Terrifying Texts

[CountryGent]

Alrighty then, in the spirit of the season, I thought a companion thread to Favorite Fright Flicks might be fun too. This one focuses on horror novels, novellas, and the like.

So what are some of your favorite horror novels and authors?

Thanks!

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[Stomper]

The party "planks" of the DNC...

 

[HuckleberryFun]

I normally don't go in for "terrifying" reads: history books are terrifying enough and I read a lot of them so it's a wonder I'm not full of phobias. Years ago, though, I read a couple of William Peter Blatty's books: The Exorcist and The Ninth Configuration.
I thought they were spine tingling then, but now who knows?

Blatty is an interesting guy. He was high up in government psychological warfare circles back in the day. Some of that psyops methodology seeps through the page, I think.
I can't help but like him. Huh? Wait....

If I'm going to read genre fiction then I'll lean more towards a spy type novel. I enjoy spooks doing spooky secret squirrel stuff. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is good. I also have a first edition of Hunt for Red October that I've read at least twice.

 

[Brutus57]

Original Frankenstein was good. I am not a big scary/book movie guy.
Currently I am reading a book on MI efforts late in VN War. Pretty interesting. Could be some useful info for the storm that might be coming.

Brutus Out

 

[HuckleberryFun]

Original Frankenstein was good. I am not a big scary/book movie guy.
Currently I am reading a book on MI efforts late in VN War. Pretty interesting. Could be some useful info for the storm that might be coming.

Brutus Out

At Interrogator's School at Fort Huachuca they would talk about the Vietnam era field expedient interrogation method of the Coke bottle up the nose. Shake up a Coke bottle, jam it against the prisoner's nose, and let the fizz go up the nose. Surprisingly painful and leaves no marks. Of course, since we never torture (ahem), this was phrased in the manner of: "you can never EVER do this, but did you know that...?" Some things are best learned by finding a crusty old soldier/sailor to tell you how.

 

[Certaindeaf]

black print blathers
booya

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Nevermore by Harold Schechter
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Something Wicked this way Comes
The Halloween Tree both by Ray Bradbury
Hell House and I am Legend both by Richard Matheson
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Any story by H.P. Lovecraft
All are a few of my favorites ... Yes I read a lot!
Andy

 

[Member 5605]

"Some day you will realize there was a point in your life where your parents put you down for the last time never to pick you up again."

And..

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

 

[Diamondback]

Check out Larry Correia's books. Old THR boardmate, so he's a fellow Gun Nut.

 

[JRuby]

personally i find easter just as scary as holloween - they both deal with dead rising out of there graves. I know where i am going probably aint up.

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Books by F. Paul Wilson, including:

The Keep
The Tomb

 

[Capn Jack]

The Morning Paper...

 

[bbbass]

"Stinger" by Robert McCammon
"It" by Stephen King
"The Devil's Touch" by William A. Johnstone
"Infected", "Contagious", and "Ancestor" by Scott Sigler
"Ice Hunt", and "Sandstorm" by James Rollins
"Fragment" and "Pandemonium" by Warren Fahy

 

[Libertas7]

Hell House and I am Legend both by Richard Matheson

Haven't read Hell House but it made me think of Mad House, a short story by Mr Matheson. Another good short story by him is Prey.

 

[clearconscience]

The Benghazi files, and the hillary's transcript of the congress hearing

 

[IheartSig]

"Some day you will realize there was a point in your life where your parents put you down for the last time never to pick you up again."

Damn, man. Right in the feels.

 

[No_Regerts]

 

[Brutus57]

Books by F. Paul Wilson, including:

The Keep
The Tomb

Yeah, those were great books, especially The Keep.

Brutus Out

 

[Libertas7]

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At lest it appears he does give a damn and isn't just like "that is your problem now."

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Another good read , while not strictly horror is American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
The Graveyard Book also by Gaiman is Excellent.
Andy