Horror Fiction

[mhphoto]

I like writing them a lot more than I like reading them, but the ones I do read are usually Stephen King.

 

[forindooruseonly]

I'll read a lot of the older pulp stuff, non thing being written today. I'm with JB, it's a genre that benefits from the short story format.

 

[3inSlugger]

I have a ton of books I am going to list in the classifieds.

I love the anthologies. Easier to keep my attention when reading a short story. Also, I like the Cthulu mythic stories.

Lovecraft's Cthulu mythology is quite creepy, I'll admit it.
About the only horror fiction I've ever been able to get into...unless some of Koontz's creepy stuff counts. I do enjoy classic fantasy like Narnia series, LOTR, and, recently, the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. They are supposed to be Young Adult....but they involve concepts and such I wouldn't have understood 4 years ago. I would highly recommend them. Sorry...off topic.

 

[Peabody]

I read lots of horror fiction.

Lately,

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.
George Washington Werewolf.
Dreadful Skin.
Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Right now, I'm reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

 

[Porter]

How many of you read horror fiction?

I read your posts. Does that count?

 

[Shriner]

Do these count ?
stackhouse
The hollows
Parasol protectorate
Dresden file

 

[Profreedomokie]

I don't have time to read much. I like about anything in movies but,vampire movies are no. 1. In my vast DVD collection I have 50 vampire movies. They have to be pretty good or they don't make the cut.

 

[druryj]

Here's my problem...I like rather straight forward horror stories. In other words, I don't want to read about the heroic vampire or the "good" zombie. I like it when the good guys are good guys and the bad guys are bad guys.

IMO, a classic along this line is Stephen King's "Salem's Lot". When I first read this, I was a tough-as-nails Sgt in the Marine Corps, and I had every light in the house on and my .45 in my lap...as ludicrous as the story may seem, it skeered the living crap out of me. What a talent to take a centuries old tale of vampires like this and turn it into something as visceral and powerful as King did.

 

[SMS]

I've tried reading the local news on the net, and some of the gun rags that I subscribe to on the computer.
Its just not for me.
Sitting on the crapper with the latest Guns and Ammo is hard to beat.

I hear you on that. I can't do magazines on it, it's just not the same, but for books they rock. Work has me travelling a lot and it's nice to have several books on tap, in one small-ish device....and in many cases the e-version of books is cheaper.

 

[JB Books]

IMO, a classic along this line is Stephen King's "Salem's Lot". When I first read this, I was a tough-as-nails Sgt in the Marine Corps, and I had every light in the house on and my .45 in my lap...as ludicrous as the story may seem, it skeered the living crap out of me. What a talent to take a centuries old tale of vampires like this and turn it into something as visceral and powerful as King did.

Salem's Lot is my favorite vampire story. I had always hoped King would do another one.