Who is your favourite horrorwriter AFTER King?

[JM2192]

Thank you I will try that one right after I finish Doctor Sleep.

Herbert was great at creating moments of pure terror and Shrine is a truely underrated novel of his.

One author I can highly reccomend is Robert Aikman. Cold Hand in Mine: Robert Aickman, Reece Shearsmith: 9780571311743: Amazon.com: Books

These stories are extremely subtle but you will never forget them. Cold Hand In Mine is a great place to start.

 

[Notaro]

Thank you I will try that one right after I finish Doctor Sleep.

Herbert was great at creating moments of pure terror and Shrine is a truely underrated novel of his.

One author I can highly reccomend is Robert Aikman. Cold Hand in Mine: Robert Aickman, Reece Shearsmith: 9780571311743: Amazon.com: Books

These stories are extremely subtle but you will never forget them. Cold Hand In Mine is a great place to start.

Thanks for the rec.

 

[Gerald]

I have never read Koontz, any recommendations for a first read?

A list like this is helpful to choose:

Best Dean Koontz Books (117 books)

117 books based on 895 votes: Watchers by Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz, Intensity by Dean Koontz, Lightning by Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy by ...

www.goodreads.com

I think Watchers is in general considered his best novel.

 

[GNTLGNT]

I have never read Koontz, any recommendations for a first read?

James Herbert is a great British Author who has a great back catalogue, I reccomend "Survivor" or "Haunted".

...Welcome.....I would suggest beginning the Odd Thomas series......

 

[morgan]

I vote for Robert R. McCammon.

 

[morgan]

I've also enjoyed many Koontz books. I need to finish the Odd Thomas series.

 

[morgan]

I think Watchers is in general considered his best novel.

My mom's read that one at LEAST four times!

 

[Gerald]

I liked The Magic Cot

My mom's read that one at LEAST four times!

You kind of wish they filmed it anew. It was only filmed very poorly, but still successful enough that there were sequels.
It seems adaptations of Koontz stopped after the Odd Thomas film in 2013. They weren't all great (but from which writer are ALL adaptations great?), but still some were good, like Intensity (1997).
I've always wanted to see Strangers done too - preferably for tv, to allow for more time as there are many characters. In a way Strangers felt a bit like It, as there are these several separate characters that all come back together again at the place where they shared a collective trauma, that was suppressed. They''re also both from 1986!

 

[king family fan]

Joe Hill

 

[Gerald]

I liked The Magic Cot


You kind of wish they filmed it anew. It was only filmed very poorly, but still successful enough that there were sequels.
It seems adaptations of Koontz stopped after the Odd Thomas film in 2013. They weren't all great (but from which writer are ALL adaptations great?), but still some were good, like Intensity (1997).
I've always wanted to see Strangers done too - preferably for tv, to allow for more time as there are many characters. In a way Strangers felt a bit like It, as there are these several separate characters that all come back together again at the place where they shared a collective trauma, that was suppressed. They''re also both from 1986!

It seems there were recent plans to do Strangers for tv. This is from last year:

‘Criminal Minds’ Creator Jeff Davis to Adapt Dean Koontz Novel ‘Strangers’ at Fox

The Dean Koontz novel "Strangers" is in development as a one-hour drama at Fox that hails from Jeff Davis.

variety.com

 

[Gerald]

People often say Lovecraft is hard to read. Reading it in English I often have to look up words, but the thing is that they're not very unknown words at all. I have a concise dictionary of 50.000 words and pretty much all I look up is in it. So I think it's more the construction of his sentences that is archaic than the words themselves.

 

[Gerald]

I was wondering which horrorwriters are generally considered true literature? Which can you read for school?

I know Poe is. And probably something like The Turn of the Screw by Henry James too. But which others? And which writers that are still working today are? Can you read Peter Straub for example for school - or is he not considered true literature?
And can you read King himself for English class in America - I know The Shining was allowed here when I was in high school for English.