Can anyone recommend me any books in the Horror genre?

[gritty_fingers]

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I'm always looking for something new to read.

[Dunedin]

Hope you get a better response than my sci-fi thread! I'm still waiting. 

[BastardCthulhu]

Check out Brian Keene.  He has a few great zombie books (Uprising, City of the Dead), and some other Lovecraft inspired fucked up crazy shit (Conqueror Worms, Deluge).  He's pretty good at straight up old school horror in general.  Check out A Gathering of Crows and Urban Gothic as well.

[I,Galactus]

Anything by Thomas Ligotti.  Seriously eldritch shit set in modern times.

Hope you get a better response than my sci-fi thread! I'm still waiting. 

Sorry man, you said modern.  I only dig vintage sci-fi.   

[Dunedin]

No worries, I like vintage stuff too, but was looking for recommendations of stuff that I'd likely not have read because it was new out. I might take you up on your horror recommendation though. It's a genre I don't read very often

[gritty_fingers]

Check out Brian Keene.  He has a few great zombie books (Uprising, City of the Dead), and some other Lovecraft inspired fucked up crazy shit (Conqueror Worms, Deluge).  He's pretty good at straight up old school horror in general.  Check out A Gathering of Crows and Urban Gothic as well.

Thanks for the recommendations. I just learned that some of old horror books from Dennis Wheatley is coming back in print in June. I always wanted to read "The Devil Rides Out". I heard it's better than the movie.

[diasdegalvan]

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

[Mr Neutron]

i'll second the ligotti recommendation. VERY lovecraftian.

House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski. not a stereotypical horror book, and a total mindfuck.

The Girl Next Door - Jack Ketchum - ketchum isn't a very good writer, but this book is seriously brutal.

The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker. The written version of Hellraiser.

The Terror - Dan Simmons. Great atmosphere. Creepy.

Relic - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child.

[gritty_fingers]

Thanks for all the replies everyone. I added some to my Amazon.com wishlist.

[frobbert]

Anything by Joe R. Lansdale of course. Kathe Koja's early novels (The Cipher, Bad Brains, Strange Angels). Graham Joyce's The Tooth Fairy. Of the more recent books I've read I really Liked Tom Piccirilli's A Choir Of Ill Children and Albert Sánchez Piñol's Cold Skin. The writers I like most are the ones on the fringe of the horror genre, like the aforementioned Joe R. Lansdale but also Jonathan Carroll, Cormac McCarthy and the short stories of Paul Bowles.

[frobbert]

T.E.D. Klein's Dark Gods is the best thing in the genre I've read in ages. Now reading some classic shit by Arthur Machen. He's scarier than Lovecraft, seriously 

[gguignol]

If you're into Joe Lansdale, you might like Infernal Machines by Will Millar.

[kyussapple]

If you can find it The spirit by thomas page. I didnt go into the woods for two years after i had read that one.

[Instant Dan]

Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg is a good one. More of a thriller than horror with occult thrown in.

[Danny G]

House of Leaves for sure.

Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, while not exactly horror, is certainly fucking horrific.


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[gritty_fingers]

House of Leaves for sure.

Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, while not exactly horror, is certainly fucking horrific.

I read both books and I enjoyed them.

[ez]

House of Leaves for sure.

Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, while not exactly horror, is certainly fucking horrific.

I read both books and I enjoyed them.

I started reading both books and enjoyed giving them up half way through and moving on to something "less challenging" instead.

But then, I read books mainly for entertainment.