Book Suggestions- Horror

Hi!  I feel like I've read every scary book out there!  Can anyone suggest a good horror book that will scare me??  Ghosts/Haunted Houses, Horror-  Witch stories, Intense Murder Mysteries....I miss being on the edge of my seat.  I feel like I haven't read anything scary....any suggestions are welcomed.  Thanks!

The Witching Hour - Anne Rice

It - Stephen King

i read those!  The Witching Hour was AMAZING.  THAT scared me!

Larry Millet's The Demon from Hell and The Ice Palace Murders are two of my favorites, but I'm a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.  Not so much horror as it is a really captivating murder mystery.

The Demon from Hell had me in tears because I couldn't read fast enough to find out what happened towards the end with the train.

Granted, Sir Conan Doyle wrote amazing books, too but for whatever reason Larry Millet's stories captured my interest on a completely different level.  I think I may make a trip to the library today to check out those two again.

I don't know if it's necessarily considered a horror novel, but "House of Leaves" by Mark Danielewski is definitely worth a read, any time. :D I'm about halfway through it now and it's absolutely brilliant.

Original Post by moonikins:

The Witching Hour - Anne Rice

Haven't read this one but I've liked everything else I've read by Anne Rice.

It - Stephen King

Fast read, real page turner, but the ending is disappointing.  That's a problem with King sometimes.  He builds you up and lets you down.  I'm more a fan of The Stand, Salem's Lot, and The Shining.

 I would like to add anything by Dean Koontz and John Saul.  There's also Robert MacKammon (sp?), but I haven't seen anything from him recently.

try anything by H.P. Lovecraft

ooohh.....i'm seeing some great suggestions here!!!  I agree-  some King novels are really really good and some are just plain awful!  Although the last one he wrote about the guy living on the beach was great.  I thought it was a good comeback!

I get attached to characters- I will admit to having a crush on Agency Pendergast in the Licoln Carter/Doug Preston novels.  Cabinet of Curiosities was my favorite of the series. 

KEEP THEM COMING!  I'm reading Elsewhere by William Peter Blatty; but so far; I fell asleep reading it; and I want to be on the edge of my seat!!!

Amityville Horror.. and there's also one out there about the Manson murders, but I forget the title...

I second HP Lovecraft!  Great, old gothic horror.

For a different kind of horror, try The Ruins by Scott Smith.  Cheapie paperback, good creepy fun.

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy isn't exactly horror, but will keep you up at night anyway.

The Eleventh Plague   by John Marr & John Baldwin

The 10 Biblical plagues are being recreated in today's world.  Not exactly horror, but it is pretty scary.

If you want really scary read

Gerald's Game by Stephen King!!!

Nothing supernatural about it just a woman in a cabin during late fall.  Thats all I'm saying!

Original Post by melodrama1:

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy isn't exactly horror, but will keep you up at night anyway.

 

That was a good one, but more bleak and depressing than scary to me.

I read pretty much all the Dean Koontz books a few years back and the best choice would probably be Intensity. It's the only one I actually found suspensful and scary.

Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris) !!!!!! 

Original Post by spuckine1:

If you want really scary read

Gerald's Game by Stephen King!!!

 

Nothing supernatural about it just a woman in a cabin during late fall.  Thats all I'm saying!

Woot!!!  Scariest book I ever read. 

Chuck Palahniuk writes some disturbing stuff... Fight Club was his.  Don't know if they qualify as scary though.

love Chuck.  He had a collection of short stories I believe that I had read some time ago.  The Ruins (book) was great-  movie was terrible!  There are a few authors here I'm going to google when I get home.

I get the feeling if I want to be scared; I'll have to write the story myself.

Hi, I too am a horror buff. I have every book by Anne Rice, Stephen King, Dean Koontz. My favorite is the Wastlands or Dark towers series by Stephen King there are 7 books in the series. Stephen King takes a while to get a character discription befor he actually gets to the good part. Dean Koontz just jumps right in. Hope this helps. 

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!

Just about anything by Clive Barker.  My favorites are Imajica, The Great and Secret Show and Weaveworld.  But you can try him out with his older short stories in The Books of Blood.  Its more metaphysical/psycho-sexual horror. 

I don't care for Stephen King.  Though I did like the long version of The Stand.  What they did to it in the mini-series was kinda sad.  Along those lines of the decimation of humanity via biological mayhem is Peter Straub's Floating Dragon.  I really liked that one. 

I love my horror! King, Koontz, John Saul, Peter Straub (wrote the Talisman with King), Richard Layman are all good. My fav has to be King's 'Desperation'. Not such a well known one of his, I think a B grade made for tv version was made but I've never been able to find it  Also a big fan of 'The Stand' ~ the long book version,