any horror recomendations

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not_nadine

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I like "Twilight Eyes" by Koontz

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Kurben

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Shirley Jackson: The haunting of Hill Hause, The Sundial, The Lottery
Clive Barker: Books of Blood
Lovecraft: A good colllection of his short stories.
Richard Matheson: I am Legend, The incredible shrinking man, Hell house
Peter Straub: Ghosts, Koko, The Throat
Dan Simmons: The Terror, Carrion Comfort, Song of Kali, Summer of Night
Ramsey Campbell: Incarnate, The Nameless, To wake the dead
 

RichardX

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I'm not sure they are King-like, but some recent ones include "House of Small Shadows", "California" (sort of a Walking Dead but without the zombies), "Bird Box". It's difficult to find really good horror novels. Most of the recent stuff recycles zombie/end-of-the world scenarios and tends to be poorly written. I wonder how much having to deal with cell phones and computers have made horror a more difficult genre? My favorite scene in any horror movie over the last twenty years is the obligatory one where the city slicker kids (i.e. future victims) hold their phones up and can't find a signal.
 

Bryan James

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"The Face" by Koontz.

The child's peril and "The Stinky Cheese Man" scenario will always be memorable.

I hate that kind of stuff, so it makes a good storified read for someone like me.
 

Chuggs

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I'm not sure this fellow falls under the style of King, but he is quite creepy--at least this work of his is. It is called The Croning and it is written by Laird Barron.
 
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EMTP513

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Everybody's forgetting Hell House, by Richard Matheson.
Even reading Earthbound, I thought the book was closest in style to Stephen King, everything from describing sex scenes in colorful detail to similar atmospheres in their books.
He said he liked Richard Matheson, and that he's an author that helped shaped Stephen King as a writer.
 
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