With autumn coming on I need a good horror novel. Suggestions? (vanity)

me ^ | 09/14/08 | Artemis Webb

[Artemis Webb]

Autumn is coming on and it feels like Halloween in southwest Missouri.

My wife and I were thinking of some seasonal reading.

So what do YOU recommend? Scare me!

[MNlurker]

Barack has written a couple that”ll keep you up all night

[mkmensinger]

“The Audacity of Hope” by B.H. Obama

Scarey as all get out.

[mkmensinger]

Slow hanging curve. :^)

[Polybius]

Here is one in pdf format.

[kbennkc]

Audacity of Dupe by B.Hussein Obambi with help from Stephen King , Bob Woodward and a comatose Bill Casey .

[Krankor]

World War Z

[InABunkerUnderSF]

A truly frightening tale about lies, deception and millions of mind numbed zombies trying to take over our country.

[conservative cat]

I can't stand Stephen King now, but The Shining scared the crap out of me when I read it many years ago. It was scary, too, up until the end. I am assuming those are old news, though. ; )

[LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot]

Okay I’ll bite. It ain’t new and it is non-fiction, but “The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston is one of the scariest things I ever read.

[colonel mosby]

Any of the Dave Robicheaux novels by James Lee Burke. There’s always an undercurrent of ghostliness.

Try Pegasus Descending, or Tin Roof Blowdown.

[null and void]

I’d say just follow the election reporting.

[Artemis Webb]

"It was scary, too, up until the end."

I totally agree about It. I thought the memories of the woman when she was forced to wash the dishes as a little girl was one of the scariest things I've ever read. The end though was just awful and lame.

[verga]

An oldie but the scariest thing I ever read, Salems’s Lot by Stephen King.

[geege]

Great book written by Vincent Bugliosi “And The Sea Will Tell” about a saling couple murdered out on Palmyra Island in 1974......The movie was even better.

[Verloona Ti]

I'm also in MO, and around this time every year is when I get the newest volumes in the series Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, ed. Ellen Datlow,Gavin Link, & Kelly Link, and the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, ed. Stephen Jones. The Datlow series is up to volume 22; the Jones one is up to volume 19. I would also recommend October Dreams, ed Chizmar and Morrish. It is an anthology of Halloween related stories, mostly horror but a few gentler fantasy stories. Each story is followed up by a recounting the author's favorite Halloween memory. Very enjoyable.

I think horror works best as short stories, so I'll let others list novels.

[retrokitten]

I know exactly what you mean, with the weather turning cooler I’ve been looking for some good scary books, too.

I recently got out “Rosemary’s Baby” for the millionth time. You can’t go wrong with the devil worshipping elderly. It’s very similar to the movie, but still a good worthwhile read.

I also enjoy Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s Agent Pendergast series. Mysteries with a bit of a supernatural twist. I’m listening to “Reliquary” on audio book now.

Old Stephen King is always good, too. “Carrie” still scares the tar out of me. IMO, the movie does not do it justice.

If you are looking for “true” ghost stories, I really enjoyed Brad Steiger’s, “Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places.” Sometimes Steiger is really “out there”, but this is one is a lot of well-know stories. My favorite is the one about the two women who around 1900 (I think) allege they traveled back in time at Versailles. It also includes a lot of pictures and while some you look at and think, “So fake!” some will give you a chill.

[johnny7]

Even if you’ve read it years ago... pick up “Salem’s Lot” again.

[Caramelgal]

I haven’t read it yet but I’ve heard some very good buzz about “The Monster of Florence”.

http://www.amazon.com/M-Florence-Douglas-Preston/dp/0446581194/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221414543&sr=1-1

It’s not exactly a horror novel but it has some of the elements. It is the supposedly true story of an American crime author vacationing in Italy who meets an Italian investigator looking into the unsolved murders of a very real serial killer (one who impart inspired the Hannibal Lechter character) and how in a twist of fate, they both became suspects.

It’s on my list of books to read this fall.

[tet68]

I’d go with “the Stand” by king, you’ll never stand next to
someone coughing in the check out line AGAIN.