Horror novels

[Cyclonus]

I'm looking for a good, gory book to read. Any recommendations?

[Alan Idol]

One of my all-time favorites is The Stand by Stephen King.

[Cyclonus]

Which of Dean Koontz's novels are considered his best work? Which are the goriest?

[PapaJupe2k]

I don't know about being his best work, but the novel Whispers was pretty gory and demented. There is also a movie out of this too, although I haven't seen it a number of years.

[Jason Voorhees]

I just love PHANTOMS by Dean Koontz, It's such a great book. Far superior to the flim and creepy as hell.

[LamentConfiguration]

Hellraiser by Clive Barker.

[DeadByDawn]

Clive Barker's Books Of Blood are great, but they're short stories. I still recommend a story called "Meat Train" or "Meat Express" or something like that, Someone who's read it could, say what it's real name is.

[CrAzYChIcK13]

The Amittyville Horror-Jay Anson was very good. Also, The Silence of the Lambs- Thomas Harris, The Exorcist- William Peter Blatty (Incredible), Carrie- Stephen King, and The Shining- Stephen King.

[vtadave]

Bentley Little is the man.

Try:

The Store
The Mailman
University
The Association

Great stuff.

[Horror_Fanatic]

Phantoms by Dean koontz is excellent and like Jason Voorhees said, it is much better the the movie.

I would also recommend Something Dangerous by Patrick Redmond, it's not gory, but it's very creepy.

[Psychocandy]

Anything by British writer Simon Clark. Especially Blood Crazy & King Blood. Trust me...no one writes apocalyptic horror with as much panache as Simon Clark.

Blood Crazy

It's Saturday. Going shopping? For a meal? To the movies? Everything nice and normal, right?

By Sunday, civilization is in ruins. Adults have become murderously insane - literally. They're infected with a crazed, uncontrollable urge to kill the young.

Including their own children.

This is the way the world ends...


King Blood

Beneath your feet the ground is heating up. And it's going to get hotter. Hotter than Hell...

WARM
Rick Kennedy feels good. Tonight there's going to be the party of the summer. The brother he hasn't seen for years has just flown in, and this is the night Rick plans to do something about Kate Robinson - the beautiful girl he just can't get out of his mind. In the pleasant village of Fairburn the evening air is warm...

WARMER
And this is the night Rick encounters the mysterious stranger in the wood.

HOT
Soon he wakes to find 30,000 refugees choking the streets. People are running for their lives. Only there's nowhere to run.

HOTTER
The ground heats up inexorably. Roads melt. Cities erupt into flame. Lakes boil. Pockets of natural gas explode like nuclear bombs and geysers of scalding water flood through whole communities.

BURNING
Survivors search desperately for refuge in a landscape burning forever beneath their feet. But they have yet to confront the Grey men - and the demons inside themselves. Because their blood itself is beginning to boil - with savagery, hunger and lust...

Amazon.com has 18 pages of Blood Crazy available to read online. I've recommended the books of Simon Clark several times on these boards. Has anyone read them? Opinions, please.

[jpmiw2001]

RED DRAGON by Thomas Harris is an excellent book. I read it in one sitting, and I was left wanting more. The best book featuring Hannibal Lecter in my humble opinion.

[Candyman666]

Some good Dean Koontz books are Fear Nothing/Seize the Night (they're sequential), Shadowfires, and Watchers. Phantoms is good too. And American Psycho is a damn gory book (remember the rat....)

Hooray for me.

[Draven2277]

I agree with Bentley Little. He's one fucked up dude. I have read every book he's written, just recently finishing "The Collection" ( a collection of short stories). My favorites are "University", "The Store", "The Town", and "The Walking". They are all good.

Bentley is a very underrated horror novelist, and u guys should check him out.

[Psychocandy]

I always assumed that Bentley Little's horror craft belonged to the atmosphere over gore school. Am I wrong? Are his books a lot more violent than I assumed?

[teenkiller]

The only one I ever really read was IT. I'm thinking of buying The Shining now. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.