GAROVORKIN Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 Which books and stories make you list as the best? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 Burnt's Offerings by Robert Marasco. it was made int oa film in 1978 staring Older Reed , Karen Black and Burgess Meredith, Betty Davis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted August 14, 2017 Author Share Posted August 14, 2017 The Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell . Simply one to he best Horror novels ever written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted August 18, 2017 Author Share Posted August 18, 2017 Shrine by George Herbert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted August 18, 2017 Author Share Posted August 18, 2017 The Manitou by Graham Masterson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manhole Eunuchsbane Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 Survivor Type by Stephen King. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted August 18, 2017 Author Share Posted August 18, 2017 The Mist by Stephen King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 11 hours ago, Manhole Eunuchsbane said: Survivor Type by Stephen King. Yes, this is pretty damn good. Definitely in my all-time top 3 horror shorts. It's published in King's Skeleton Crew, along with another couple of cracking stories: The Mist, and The Raft. My favourite ever short story is Neil Gaiman's The Price. In terms of horror novels, my all-time favourite is Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs. Also, literally anything by Adam Nevill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obsidian Knight Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 I will not mention classics and popular stuff like Anne Rice or Poe or Stephen King. Hanns Heinz Ewers "Alraune". This novel is simply amazing. I recommend it for all who appreciate good horror literature. Also the short story by this writer "The Spider". Algernon Blackwood "The Willows". It's a very creepy story. Stories and novels by Poppy Z. Brite. "Lost Souls" and "Drawing Blood" are my favourites. Cormac McCarthy "The Road". John Fowles "The Collector" Tales of E.T.A Hoffman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted August 30, 2017 Author Share Posted August 30, 2017 The Dark Chamber by Leonard Cline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Ray Bradbury and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Oh and The Illustrated Man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hello World Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 The Machine Stops, I think written around a hundred years ago yet very relevant today, is pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted November 26, 2017 Author Share Posted November 26, 2017 Wetbones by John Shirley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traverys Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. It's very post-modern... it's a story in three layers. The first layer is the main text, which is written as an academic analysis of videotapes made by a family. The author is a man named Zampano. The second layer is the Navidson family (the subjects of Zampano's academic writing) that moves into a new house that apparently has larger dimensions on the outside than it does on the inside... Not to mention one day the Navidsons return from vacation and an extra door has inexplicably appeared which leads into a dark hallway with no end. Zampano is able to document and analyze these events because they have innocently recorded everything on a camera. The third layer is a young man, Johnny, that comes across this academic text when he breaks in to the recently deceased Zampano's apartment... which has measuring tapes attached to the floors and walls. He steals a trunk full of his academic writings (the book you're reading) and begins writing footnotes that document his own haunting experiences and slow deterioration of sanity after being exposed to the text. I have chills just from writing all of this. I really haven't spoiled anything because much of it is completely left open to interpretation. It's extremely unsettling from start to finish. You experience one man's slow slip into what is either insanity or being haunted from reading the text, and you yourself are reading the same text he is. --- The Croning by Laird Bannon. Bannon is still in the early stages of his writing career. If you read his earlier short stories you can easily detect him growing as an author, so that's always a very positive sign to me. The Croning is not a perfect story, but it does have many scenes that are incredibly unsettling in a very Lovecraftian manner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted December 24, 2017 Author Share Posted December 24, 2017 On 8/19/2017 at 8:57 AM, Obsidian Knight said: I will not mention classics and popular stuff like Anne Rice or Poe or Stephen King. Hanns Heinz Ewers "Alraune". This novel is simply amazing. I recommend it for all who appreciate good horror literature. Also the short story by this writer "The Spider". Algernon Blackwood "The Willows". It's a very creepy story. Stories and novels by Poppy Z. Brite. "Lost Souls" and "Drawing Blood" are my favourites. Cormac McCarthy "The Road". John Fowles "The Collector" Tales of E.T.A Hoffman Excellent list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hello World Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 I'm reading the Books of Blood by Clive Barker (volumes 1 to 5 are what I have) and they're pretty good. The stories are very diverse and some have unique themes that I haven't seen in other horror shorts/novels before. It's very reminiscent of Poe and MR James. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted January 13, 2018 Author Share Posted January 13, 2018 Midnight Sun by Ramsey Campbell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted January 23, 2018 Author Share Posted January 23, 2018 The 37th Mandala by Mark Laidlaw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Valley Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 I liked The Lamentation of their Women which is a new novellette The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle that came out last year The classic The Yellow Wallpaper Also I second House of Leaves and Bradbury picks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted February 3, 2018 Author Share Posted February 3, 2018 Bats Belfry by August Derleth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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