Horror Fiction

[Glock 'em down]

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.

Yeah, Salem's Lot rocked. The TV mini-series back in the early 80's literally scared me shitless! I had nightmares for weeks.

But I loved it!

As for reading horror fiction, I too like a little Stephen King and Dean Koontz, but I'm more into James Patterson and the late Robert B. Parker.

I do appreciate the covers of all of Kim Harrison's novels however along with her clever titles.

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[buckeyeinok]

Graham Masterson .... All Heads Turn as the Hunt Goes By.

 

[Shriner]

Glock --- you got love Rachel and her leather . just finished the latess book -A Perfect Blood .

 

[Glock 'em down]

Glock --- you got love Rachel and her leather . just finished the latess book -A Perfect Blood .

I've never read a single page of her work. I just love the covers.

 

[druryj]

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

Yep, about the only thing better would be a single stack Glock in 9mm...wait; I can think of a couple things better than that.

 

[mugsy]

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.

I agree with you 100% on this. The nice vampires (who just can't help feeding on us humans) who are also very hip and sexy - make me laugh. They are more a reflection of cultural disaffection than good horror writing.

Do you like the H.P. Lovecraft Cthulu Mythos or the early Steven King stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft?

 

[mugsy]

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.

I had a similar reaction - the story was well written with good sub-plots and deep ideas buried under the scary stuff.

 

[druryj]

I had a similar reaction - the story was well written with good sub-plots and deep ideas buried under the scary stuff.

I'm not sure about deep ideas, it just scared the crap out of me.

 

[nofearfactor]

Life long fan. Started out with EA Poe, then HP Lovecraft, which led me to Crowley, etcetc.

 

[JB Books]

Life long fan. Started out with EA Poe, then HP Lovecraft, which led me to Crowley, etcetc.

Led you to Allister Crowley? What exactly does that statement mean? He didn't write fiction (intentionally).