Horror

[lovetoread]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/DaVinciCode.jpg

Well, the writing horrified me.

uh huh

 

[Fata Morgana]

I would recommend Steven Millhauser's Dangerous Laughter. It's a short story collection, but borrows heavily from Gothic elements to create narratives that are both disturbing and tender. Also, if you haven't by now, for the love of all that is good, read Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves. It is the horror novel to end all horror novels - a postmodern existential take on the traditional haunted-house narrative. It will fuck you up.

I have House of Leaves on my shelves somewhere. You've made me want to go and get stuck right in!

 

[Learnsmith]

I have House of Leaves on my shelves somewhere. You've made me want to go and get stuck right in!

It is amazing. Also, check out his Only Revolutions. Sort of an epic-poetry beatnik sci-fi road novel. Very weird, and definitely in the category of ergodic literature, but well worth it.

 

[Fata Morgana]

If you don't mind British horror you should try Adam Nevill. He writes some proper creepy stuff. Loved The Ritual and Apartment 16 especially.

 

[Learnsmith]

If you don't mind British horror you should try Adam Nevill. He writes some proper creepy stuff. Loved The Ritual and Apartment 16 especially.

A book's region never deterred me. In light of my recent belated dive into True Detective, I may also need to pick up "The King In Yellow."

 

[KingOrfeo]

Have you read any Clive Barker?

 

[Queersetti]

Have you read the books by SKs son? He writes under The name Joe Hill? His books are great, especially Heart Shaped Box.

I attended a dinner party a couple of months ago at the home of friend of mine who is a neighbor of the Kings. As I was driving by their house, I saw a man in the driveway, and thought it was Stephen. But I realized that he hadn't looked that way in 20 years. It was Joe.

http://lobablanca.com/blog09/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/kinghill.jpg

 

[Queersetti]

Picture of the house, btw.

http://pixdaus.com/files/items/pics/2/74/184274_bf4a834e23f0a4fd3d889f80a5b1cdf4_large.jpg

 

[scrymettet]

I am in the mood to be scared....

Check my Am pic thread

 

[lovetoread]

If you don't mind British horror you should try Adam Nevill. He writes some proper creepy stuff. Loved The Ritual and Apartment 16 especially.

I grabbed The Ritual, but there was no kindle version for Apartment 16

Have you read any Clive Barker?

Aye, I have almost all of his.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy is maybe the most frightening novel of all times. Its intense and graphic.

 

[Jennifer]

Picture of the house, btw.

http://pixdaus.com/files/items/pics/2/74/184274_bf4a834e23f0a4fd3d889f80a5b1cdf4_large.jpg

Wow-that is exactly what I had pictured in my head. Love the beautiful, lush lawn-it's visible, what, maybe 2 months a year it isn't buried under snow.