What are your favourate horror stories? I love stephen king, dean koontz, and i like to read vampire books, because king is an awesome writter and so is koontz, so what are yours and why?
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I love Stephen King, even his t.v movies are\were good. 1408 which is pretty recent was really good too and of course The Shining but no movie can take the title away from The Exorcist as all time scariest. Dammit that kid was possessed.
I'd say the Bible has it over every other horror story ever written for in it we have sodomy, crucification, incest, beheadings, wars, betrayals, brothers killing brothers, fathers killing sons, mothers killing babies, and allot more horrific stuff that takes place all throughout the greatest HORROR STORY ever told. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
There have been stories like that before Bible, it was put together only in 387AD from at least 66 different sources after all, it's just that Bible has been more popular in the western world. Bible was the first book printed in Europe in 1456AD , that's all. The oldest printed book-text that has survived is the Buddhist "Diamond Sutra' from 868AD. However my main point is that our everyday is like the events in Bible, and indeed so is our history, so there is nothing special in it.
A short (ha!) list Short stories: Bradbury, Ray. "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!" (a.k.a. "Come Into My Cellar") ————— "Zero Hour" Cady, Jack. "The Lady With the Blind Dog" Grant, Charles L., "Spinning Tales With the Dead" Kirk, Russell. "There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding" Lovecraft, H. P., "The White Ship" ————— "Celephais" McCammon, Robert R., "Beauty" Straub, Peter, "The Juniper Tree" Novellas: Barker, Clive, The Hellbound Heart King, Stephen, "The Body" (Different Seasons) Lovecraft, H. P., "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" Novels: Barker, Clive, Weaveworld ————— Sacrament ————— Galilee Bradbury, Ray, Something Wicked This Way Comes Cady, Jack, The Hauntings of Hood Canal Grant, Charles L., In a Dark Dream Lovecraft, H. P., The Case of Charles Dexter Ward McCammon, Robert R., Boy's Life Streiber, Whitley, Billy Not quite horror: Barker, Clive, Imajica (novel; fantastique/dark fantasy) Bradbury, Ray. Death Is A Lonely Business (novel; suspense) —————. Graveyard for Lunatics (novel; suspense) Cady, Jack. The Off-Season (novel; mystical realism) • • • Movies: Alien Aliens The Gate Gothic Halloween Hellraiser II: Hellbound House Last House On the Left The Lost Boys Paper House The Reflecting Skin Notes: Yes, the first two Alien films—especially the first—count as horror. Yes, you read that correctly: The Lost Boys. While House II: The Second Story isn't quite as good as the first, it deserves an honorable mention for including among its cast both John Ratzenberger and Bill Maher. Of the films on that list, only Halloween ever truly scared me. I caught it when I was about eleven, and remember palpable waves of fear in dark silence. A very effective ending, in fact, that was reiterated almost immediately when I put some music on to calm my nerves as I tried to sleep that night. It was Styx's Grand Illusion album, and I was lulling off to sleep when the song "Castle Walls" began, and behind the opening notes of the bass guitar is a quiet breathing sound that I had previously ignored, but which on that night scared me wide awake so that I sat up for several hours reading.
