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.

The Exorcist

The Tell Tale Heart

http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/tell-tale-heart.html

The Bible

H.P. Lovecraft, S. King, E.A. Poe, N. Gaiman, J.Herbert

anything with demons.

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.


when i watched the excorcist i just laughed!

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. :eek:

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. :eek:

Most of that you can read in the daily news. ;)

Most of that you can read in the daily news. ;)

But it was first published in the Bible as a story , so then was the Bible our

first newspaper?

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.

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.