3 Greatest horror novels?
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These kind of things are so difficult. Choices, choices. I will divide my opinion in cathegories.
Best Vampire novel: Salem's lot by King (I know, Dracula and all that but i like his version more)
Best Haunted House novel: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (The Shining is good but not that good)
Best Ghost novel: Ghost story by Peter Straub (although there are contenders)
Best Zombie novel: World war Z by Max Brooks
Best Monster novel: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (But IT is great too...)
Best Werewolf novel: ? Right now i can't think of any real good ones. Suggestions? I don't think cycle of the werewolf is good enough to win.
Best Dystopian novel: The Stand by King
And now you can start to say you disagree which of course you do. Always when you make choices like that everybody disagrees. Please do and tell me what i have missed. That will be great reading tips for the future. Or do think there any cathegories thats missing?
Hello, What does IMHO mean? Dracula by Stoker is good, but it's not as good as Salems's Lot; in my opinion anyway. Mark.
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Hello, Kurben. Too many choices. I'm a Vampire man. My mum took me to see 'Count Yorga' when I was 5 with my cousin and I still remember when the little boy dropped the ball down the crypt( I hope I got the right movie. My mum seemed to take me to a lot of movies!) I always thought Stephen King could have done a follow-up book. I always thought Mike Ryerson was ordinary in life; but would be special as the walking dead.
Oh, I always thought it was In My Humble Opinion?
Nooooo...There you go...humble. Humiliated again...alas.
It could be either, surely?
...and stop calling him Shirley....you are BOTH incorrect...IMHO=Insane Mutilated Hamster Objects...
AND Pet Sematary by Mr. King.IMHO Dracula by Stoker, 'Salem's Lot by Mr. King.
In My Humble Opinion. I think that Dracula and 'Salem's Lot speak of different times and settings and both appeal for those reasons. I think Mr. King's vamp story is more sinister in its telling.
Correct. Salem's Lot is more scarier. Stephen King is good at making real characters. There must be some interesting people up there in Maine, but no so more than here in God's country of Newcastle, Australia.
Thought it was impossible to just pick one book. So i divided the horror genre in cathegories. Do you agree about the vampire story at least?That Salems lot is better than Dracula?
I'm sure there will be, if it doesn't exist already, a Stephen King Award after the career. Dracula is great but it didn't spring from nothing. Try Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. It has been eclipsed but was an important inspiration for Stoker. And then of course Polidoris The Vampire from 1819. And then the, in comparison with Stoker and Le Fanu, rather cheap little novel Varney the Vampire. Forgot who wrote that one.
I am Legend (the movie) Will Smith...(dog scene)
I would've re-watched the movie MANY times
if that scene was excluded!!
