Recommend me a Scary Book

[Buffy Summers]

With Halloween coming up, I've a hankering for a good Halloween book. Right now I'm reading HP Lovecraft's the Shunned House.

Anyone have any good recommendations for Halloween season reading?

🙂

 

[Skanky Vamp]

This or.. I don't know if I'd call it scary as much as tension, but Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk or Chambers' The King in Yellow.

 

[GwenRaiden]

Swan Song.
 

Mr. Pole: Pfft. Second-rate The Stand

Hey, found a photo of you typing karma comments.

 

[ILLYRIAN]

I'd suggest having a look at the books by Kelley Armstrong, depending on which ones you can find in the bookshops you go to, most of them are quite good.

 

[white avenger]

If you can find it:

"Wolfen" Whitley Strieber

Read it, and you'll never walk into a dark alley again without wondering... are they watching?

(But ignore the movie. It was awful!)

 

[GwenRaiden]

(But ignore the movie. It was awful!)

I love that film. It's easily one of my favourite "horror" films. I love that they filmed in the South Bronx inside the abandoned churches and ruined buildings, all ready for being demolished. I guess a lot of people expected werewolves and big horror scenes that didn't happen. The angry running theme of gentrification and the human ignorance of ecology, those cinematic shots up on the Brooklyn Bridge, with Albert Finney looking genuinely terrified, all while having a pretty intense conversation on top of the bridge with the Native American construction worker. Oh my gawd, I love it.

 

[Samuel Reyes]

Anything by Stephen King

The Exorcist

The Haunting of Hill House

 

[Taake]

MR James wrote quite nice ghost stories.

 

[Skanky Vamp]

Mr. James? Isn't that EL's husband?

 

[Taake]

Mr. James? Isn't that EL's husband?

Sure, if she was into dead guys. Oh wait, Twilight... I guess she is. 😉

 

[sosa lola]

I feel like my brain has been licked by a drooling dog and was left dripping. Seriously, that's how good this book was! Unreliable narrators at its force! And that twist, god, that twist!

blueeyedboy written by Joanne Harris is the latest book I read and I couldn't put down.

Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue.

Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive.

Brown was the middle child; timid and dull

But Blue was his mother’s favorite. And he was a murderer.

The book starts with B.B. posting fics in his wejay (web journal) which I read in my head as LJ - livejournal. I loved the whole fic thing with the readers leaving feedbacks to the murder stories B.B. posts in his wejay. Unique and refreshing. Gives it a modern feel.

 

[white avenger]

I love that film. It's easily one of my favourite "horror" films. I love that they filmed in the South Bronx inside the abandoned churches and ruined buildings, all ready for being demolished. I guess a lot of people expected werewolves and big horror scenes that didn't happen. The angry running theme of gentrification and the human ignorance of ecology, those cinematic shots up on the Brooklyn Bridge, with Albert Finney looking genuinely terrified, all while having a pretty intense conversation on top of the bridge with the Native American construction worker. Oh my gawd, I love it.

Without giving away too much of the plot, the Wolfen, as portrayed in the book, were the equivalent of a higher order descended from a canine ancestry the way that humans are descended from primates. They were the true life source of the legends of werewolves, with intelligence and a racial culture the equivalent to humanity, but, obviously, far fewer in number and far more savage.