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5th April 2012, 11:17 AM
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| Good new horror - like Herbert, King or Barker Hi all, Looking for recommendations for new horror please. In the past I've really enjoyed Stephen King, James Herbert and Clive Barker. I've read almost all of the novels these guys have written. I've recently been reading novels by Robert R. McCammon who I'd recommend. So, hopefully this will give you an indication of the type of horror I'm looking for. Any suggestions welcome......... |
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5th April 2012, 02:11 PM
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| Re: Good new horror - like Herbert, King or Barker Quote:
I've recently read a couple of Tom Piccirilli's thrillers, Headstone City and The Dead Letter. The latter comes closest to horror and it was good -- not great, but entertaining. You might try some of his earlier work, like A Choir of Lost Children, which seems to be the book most horror fans rave about. It's in my TBR pile for some time this summer. You mention King and I'll take a chance suggesting an older writer who was a big influence on him, Richard Matheson. A lot of his work has returned to print over the last decade; before that I'd have told you he was the writer whose work you most likely knew without knowing his name -- he wrote scripts for the original Twilight Zone, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," for the Vincent Price/Roger Corman movies based on Edgar Allan Poe's work, for Steven Spielberg's first big hit, Duel, for the first two Kolchak movies, The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler, and his own writings have been made into numerous movies. (Duel was based on a novella of his.) If you haven't read them, try I am Legend and/or Hell House; the former has filmed three times with varying degrees of success, the latter was made into a quite good 1970s movie. Joe Hill's first novel, The Heart-Shaped Box is good until near the end; it loses some steam in the last 20 or so pages. I have yet to get to his story collection, 20th Century Ghosts, or his newest novel, Horns, but both have gotten good reviews, especially the collection. A bit less successful, I thought, but a decent beach read is James Jacob Horner's Southern Gods. It was good enough that I'll keep him in mind the next time he publishes a novel. That's all I can think of right now. If I something else comes to mind, I'll post again. Randy M. | |
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5th April 2012, 05:22 PM
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| Re: Good new horror - like Herbert, King or Barker I knew there were a couple of writers I meant to mention earlier. Ramsey Campbell -- roughly of an age with King and Herbert. A major short story writer,Campbell also acquits himself well in the novel, at least the ones I've read. I enjoyed The Doll Who Ate His Mother -- one of my favorite cheesy titles for a novel that really isn't bad at all -- and Ancient Images, but I think anyone who really likes King might find Midnight Sun of interest. It's a family-in-peril novel, and it is exceptionally well done. Peter Straub -- also roughly of an age with King and Herbert. His older work is often excellent -- Julia, Ghost Story, Koko, etc. -- and his early 2000s novel, lost boy lost girl is as well. It shares a character with Koko and The Throat, which might be something of a spoiler for Koko, but otherwise it stands alone. (Koko, Mystery and The Throat are a loose trilogy with some shared characters; the trilogy is as much in the mystery genre as it is in horror.) Randy M. |
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