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Anyone reading anything good in the horror genre - ALowerDeep - 02-10-2005
I just figured i would see if anyone out there was reading anything good in the horror field. I'll start out myself i just got done reading a couple good ones. First Caitlin r Kiernan's Threshold which is in the vein of Lovecrafts Mythos. Great book and it really creeps you out i think everyone should check this out.
Second book Owl Goingback's Breed. Classic horror should be enjoyable to most. Third book In Silent Graves. One of the best books i have ever read. A whole new mythology has been invented and i think everyone should read this book. Fourth and last of all (not a horror novel) Dean Koontz's Life Expectancy. Just like Odd Thomas and really good.
Please give me some imput i am running out of books to read!
ALowerDeep
Anyone reading anything good in the horror genre - Scott Miller - 02-10-2005
ALowerDeep Wrote:I just figured i would see if anyone out there was reading anything good in the horror field. Please give me some imput i am running out of books to read! ALowerDeep
I have been reading many, perhaps too many, comics of late, so last time at the library I picked out a couple of books. Both are turning out to be wise decisions. The first was a no-brainer: Madman Stan and Other Stories by Richard Laymon. If you haven't read Laymon yet, do yourself a favor and find anything by him; I've not been disappointed by any of his work and MS is a stellar collection. The second is Black Fire by James Kidman and thus far, it is an excellent first novel. I've been burning the midnight oil reading it.
Anyone reading anything good in the horror genre - Matthew Smith - 02-10-2005
I just re-read Joe Nassise's RIVERWATCH, which I liked, and I just read an old collection of Richard Matheson stories called SHOCK II. Great stuff. I'd read a few of the stories before in the new TOR reprints, but there were several that were new to me. I'd highly recommend ANYTHING by Matheson. He's one of the greats.
I'd been hearing a lot about Edward Lee from some other horror writers, so I picked up a copy of his new book FLESH GOTHIC. I'm about halfway through and it's not bad. A little gruesome in places, but the writing's pretty good. I AM a little tired of books about a group of parapsychologists spending the night in mansions where something bad happened, though. I don't know why, but that setup has never particularly excited me. I'd recommend HELL HOUSE by Matheson for an earlier take on the same idea.
--Matthew
Anyone reading anything good in the horror genre - Terry Willacker - 02-10-2005
I just started The Resort by Bentley Little. Pretty good so far. My first by him. Not FPW good or Preston & Child good, but good.
Anyone reading anything good in the horror genre - thisisatest - 02-10-2005
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Just started reading Herbert Lieberman's City of the Dead. Great prose so far. Reads like a good episode of CSI.
Anyone reading anything good in the horror genre - APhew - 02-10-2005
Right now I'm reading "Chasm" by Stephen Laws. I highly reccomend his other books published by Leisure here in the States: Darkfall, The Wyrm, and Fear Me (was originally titled "Gideon").
It's hard to answer these types of posts, my collection has grown so large over the years that I have trouble even finding a place to start reccomending. A lot of the authors that are publishing through Leisure Horror are awesome. Douglas Clegg, Tom Piccirilli, Gary Braunbeck, Richard Laymon (lots of reissues), Michael Laimo, James A. Moore, Simon Clark, etc... and so forth. Usually you can't go wrong with a Leisure horror novel.
If your interested in a specific "type" of horror (vampire, post-apocalyptic, monsters, ghosts... ) I could file down my reccomendations.
Anyone reading anything good in the horror genre - cyber-jack - 02-10-2005
Not reading any horror at the moment, but to echo some other posts in this thread. Anything by Bently Little and Richard Laymon will be good. I'm a little mixed on Douglas Clegg, Edward Lee and Tom Piccirilli, but have not read enough of either of the three to recommend one way or the other.
I'm less than impressed with James Kidman / Brian Freeman, probably more because of his involvement with Cemetery Dance that seems to have given him free reign at promoting his own work through their web site and newsletters, than the actual quality of his work. This stems from seeing his book announced, promoted, printed and shipped well before many other CD titles (Sims 4, Sims 5, Midnight Mass to name a few pertinent ones)
I am about to finish Elmore Leonard's Be Cool, which has been a fun read, but a little out of my normal reading pattern. My slush pile has some promising stuff in it that I hope to get to in the next month or so...but nothing strictly in the horror field.
Has anyone read any of the latter Lumley Necroscope books? I read the original series (1 thru 5), but could not get through Blood Brothers. I think the first half of the book was dedicated to rehashing the first five novels, and became so repetitive that I couldn't force myself to get to the new story...
Anyone reading anything good in the horror genre - jimbow8 - 02-10-2005
cyber-jack Wrote:Not reading any horror at the moment, but to echo some other posts in this thread. Anything by Bently Little and Richard Laymon will be good. I'm a little mixed on Douglas Clegg, Edward Lee and Tom Piccirilli, but have not read enough of either of the three to recommend one way or the other.I picked up A Lower Deep by Picirilli (based on recommendation from the originator of this thread with same name) and hated it. I quit reading it about halfway through and sold it. I did like They Thirst (McCammon) quite a bit, and Vamphyrric (Simon Clark) was AWESOME(based on same recommendation).
I'm less than impressed with James Kidman / Brian Freeman, probably more because of his involvement with Cemetery Dance that seems to have given him free reign at promoting his own work through their web site and newsletters, than the actual quality of his work. This stems from seeing his book announced, promoted, printed and shipped well before many other CD titles (Sims 4, Sims 5, Midnight Mass to name a few pertinent ones)
I am about to finish Elmore Leonard's Be Cool, which has been a fun read, but a little out of my normal reading pattern. My slush pile has some promising stuff in it that I hope to get to in the next month or so...but nothing strictly in the horror field.
Has anyone read any of the latter Lumley Necroscope books? I read the original series (1 thru 5), but could not get through Blood Brothers. I think the first half of the book was dedicated to rehashing the first five novels, and became so repetitive that I couldn't force myself to get to the new story...
I plan on reading Lumley's Necroscope series next, so it may be a while til I get to the second series. Which books make up which series?
Anyone reading anything good in the horror genre - cyber-jack - 02-10-2005
jimbow8 Wrote:I picked up A Lower Deep by Picirilli (based on recommendation from the originator of this thread with same name) and hated it. I quit reading it about halfway through and sold it. I did like They Thirst (McCammon) quite a bit, and Vamphyrric (Simon Clark) was AWESOME(based on same recommendation).
I plan on reading Lumley's Necroscope series next, so it may be a while til I get to the second series. Which books make up which series?
I don't even know any more...
The original Necroscope Series was:
Necroscope
Vamphrii
The Source
DeadSpeak
Deadspawn
After that it gets a little murky with:
Blood Brothers
The Last Aeri
Bloodwars
And then the newer ones:
The Lost Years vol 1 & 2
And the even more recent:
Defilers
Avengers
Invaders
I probably do not have the order correct on the later ones, and I've surely missed one or two somewhere, but I've read the first five and thought they were pretty good. Each one rehashes the previous volumes to some extent and this gets worse as you go along, but you definetely should read them in order.
I've got most of the newer titles in my slush pile, but haven't felt moved to actually pick one up and start reading it...
Anyone reading anything good in the horror genre - Gerald Rice - 02-11-2005
ALowerDeep Wrote:I just figured i would see if anyone out there was reading anything good in the horror field. I'll start out myself i just got done reading a couple good ones. First Caitlin r Kiernan's Threshold which is in the vein of Lovecrafts Mythos. Great book and it really creeps you out i think everyone should check this out.
Second book Owl Goingback's Breed. Classic horror should be enjoyable to most. Third book In Silent Graves. One of the best books i have ever read. A whole new mythology has been invented and i think everyone should read this book. Fourth and last of all (not a horror novel) Dean Koontz's Life Expectancy. Just like Odd Thomas and really good.
Please give me some imput i am running out of books to read!
ALowerDeep
I'm reading Roald Dahl's 'Tales of the Unexpected'.