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the strain by guillimero del toro is pretty fucking good
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Not fiction, but Maury Terry's "The Ultimate Evil" gave me fucking nightmares as an adult. It links the Manson family with the Son Of Sam and the Process Church. Fucking murderiffic insanity.
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Most of the stories in Books of Blood I + II are pretty good, as far as I remember...
also, Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon were fantastic. More suspense than terror inducing, but great none the less.
also, Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon were fantastic. More suspense than terror inducing, but great none the less.
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Try some Jack Ketchum, particularly Off Season. Its a pretty standard cannibal folk killing people tale, but its pretty intense and you can read it in a day or so.
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if you just want a good gorey romp, i'd suggest some early, early poppy z. brite. it's nothing special, sort of the hard-rock-candy of splatterpunk stuff, but it scratches that itch when i get it.
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Thomas Ligotti is pretty much my go-to guy for modern horror if you haven't read him. Mostly short stories. Teatro Grottesco was the last one I read and it actually left me unsettled about the ultimate fate of any human endeavor. It made me not want to create. The Nightmare Factory, Noctuary and Shadow at the Bottom of the World are all awesome collections with a little bit of overlap between all of them, but all are out of print and pretty pricey, so hit the library. Haven't read his novel My Work is Not Yet Done yet, but it seems pretty available, as does Teatro Grottesco. To be fair, he is very repetitive in his themes, hell maybe even theme, but he does it so well that it draws me in every time.
My main book-trading friend is about to pass me a guy named Laird Barron. Apparently his work combines elements of noir, westerns and Lovecraftian horror. He's a certified strength trainer, a weird martial artist and a three-time Iditarod racer if his bio isn't just a bunch of made-up bullshit, and he's got an eye patch. So I'm psyched.
My main book-trading friend is about to pass me a guy named Laird Barron. Apparently his work combines elements of noir, westerns and Lovecraftian horror. He's a certified strength trainer, a weird martial artist and a three-time Iditarod racer if his bio isn't just a bunch of made-up bullshit, and he's got an eye patch. So I'm psyched.
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Jack Ketchum, John Shirley, Rex Miller, R.F. Gonzalez, Ed Lee (though more gory and funny than scary), Brian Keene, Robert Devereaux
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The last few stories in Teatro Grottesco fucked my shit up.12 Months of Mao wrote:Thomas Ligotti is pretty much my go-to guy for modern horror if you haven't read him. Mostly short stories. Teatro Grottesco was the last one I read and it actually left me unsettled about the ultimate fate of any human endeavor. It made me not want to create. The Nightmare Factory, Noctuary and Shadow at the Bottom of the World are all awesome collections with a little bit of overlap between all of them, but all are out of print and pretty pricey, so hit the library. Haven't read his novel My Work is Not Yet Done yet, but it seems pretty available, as does Teatro Grottesco. To be fair, he is very repetitive in his themes, hell maybe even theme, but he does it so well that it draws me in every time.
My main book-trading friend is about to pass me a guy named Laird Barron. Apparently his work combines elements of noir, westerns and Lovecraftian horror. He's a certified strength trainer, a weird martial artist and a three-time Iditarod racer if his bio isn't just a bunch of made-up bullshit, and he's got an eye patch. So I'm psyched.
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all of these suggestions so far are really giving me the creeps...
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A few of my favorites:TheDOAD wrote:That guy sounds like the fucking man. Let us know how it is.
Ive read almost every King book and tons more than once. Ive read some lovecraft. Whats a good place to start with him I have the dream cycels? The collectionof short stories. Some rueld. Some bored me to tears.
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Not scary, but a real fun horror novel is Joe Lansdale's The Drive-In.
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TheDOAD wrote:That guy sounds like the fucking man. Let us know how it is.
Ive read almost every King book and tons more than once. Ive read some lovecraft. Whats a good place to start with him I have the dream cycels? The collectionof short stories. Some rueld. Some bored me to tears.
Nothing in lovecraft is really going to be "action packed" except the Horror At Redhook which was oddly frenetic from what i remember.
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