Thread: Good Horror.

Give me all you're sick nasty horror.

I mess with Lovecraft, King, Matheson's, and Poe. Lovecraft is a beast.

Can anyone turn me on to some sick Lovecraftian shit or something just good?

Thematically, it would help me to know more about where your interests lean towards (obviously sick and twisted), as I've noticed that lots of horror readers tend to get/go on runs of "same topic" books (eg - zombies, vampires, etc.) once they read one they particularly enjoy.

As a major league horror reader (and seeing who you've listed), I'd recommend you venture into reading books by:

Richard Laymon -- start w/ "The Cellar" (which leads to "the Beast House", then "The Midnight Tour"...then kind of peters out into a very hard to find "Friday Night in the Beast House"...no need)

Or, pick up "Island" (twisted), "One Rainy Night", "the Stake" and "No Sanctuary". He's done about thirty, check Amazon.

Bentley Little -- start w/ "The Store", "The Revelation", "The Association", "The Policy", "The Resort", "The Walking" or "The Collection" (shorts). He's done 21, a current favorite of mine. Sorta King-esque...way more plot movement/advancement every 10 or so pages

If zombies/post-apocalyptic aren't something that puts you off, pretty much anything published by Permuted Press, though I personally prefer the novels over the short story collections, I'd recommend highly. Ask and I'll list what I've really liked by them

John Skipp and Craig Spector - basically, their first three and "Book of the Dead".

Other aouthors to check out:
Clive Barker, Joe Lansdale, Peter Straub, Jack Ketchum, Dan Simmons, Phil Rickman, Brian Keene, Douglas Clegg, Ray Garton, Robert McCammon and a host of others that I can put book to name if interested...mostly one or two books or not on the tip of my fingers right now.

The last "horror" novel I rememebr reading was one from - I think - a year back, titled "Sharp Objects."

The horror involved is much more psychological than physical, though the visceral sense of bodily harm does crank up towards the end. It was a lazy though fun read.

Here's the Amazon page if you're interested: Amazon.com: Sharp Objects: A Novel: Gillian Flynn: Books

Clive Barker - The Hellbound Heart (aka Hellraiser) and Books of Blood. It doesn't really get more sick and nasty than that.

Thanks for the authors I'm going to check some out.

I'm not really into the monster sub-culture. More of psychological horror.

Why am I seeing Richard Laymon's name in a thread about 'good horror'?

Originally Posted by Industrial

Give me all you're sick nasty horror.

I mess with Lovecraft, King, Matheson's, and Poe. Lovecraft is a beast.

Can anyone turn me on to some sick Lovecraftian shit or something just good?

Meat, by Joseph D'Lacey.

A pretty sickening book on cannibalism.

Nick

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.

omg! I've wanted to read that book Tarantula!! Was it good?

I loved it. It has a fantastic creepy atmosphere and manages to scare without gore or monsters or ghosts or anything else you might be thinking of.

Definitely Clive Barker for the sick and nasty.

Edward Lee. I've read (and own) a dozen of his books, and while most would consider them trashy, I found them extremely entertaining. They all seem alike, like Monster-of-the-Week books, and contain explicit gore/sex to an extreme level, but they are FUN reads.

Read 'Hell House', by Richard Matheson. It's very twisted.

'The Terror' by Dan Simmons was the last horror novel I read and is definitely worth checking out. Nothing in it is particularly sick or gruesome, but at does have some genuinely unsettling and scary moments in it.

Originally Posted by Stewart

Why am I seeing Richard Laymon's name in a thread about 'good horror'?

Probably because he's amazing...