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April 30th, 2010, 07:29 PM | #1 |
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Favourite Horror writers
As an adjunct to the Sci-Fi thread,I should like to celebrate authors in a field that is almost as despised as porn-Horror fiction.Here are five of My favourite writers in the medium,feel free to add your own.
Clive Barker Kim Newman Stephen King Poppy Z Brite David Wellington
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April 30th, 2010, 07:47 PM | #2 |
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Good thread, Mal.
Thomas Ligotti MR James Edgar Allan Poe Algernon Blackwood I haven't read everything by the above few - just a deal of their shorter fiction. Out and out horror isn't really my thing - I prefer mildly supernatural stories.
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I read a number of his books when I was a kid. Maybe a bit "old hat" now but for me he is still the best. |
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Thinking of doing a thread on this subject myself - beat me too it Mal
Some great Horror Writers - A few of my favourites Graham Masterton James Herbert Robert R. McCammon Anna Rice I won't mention Stephen King, although he's probably the most famous horror writer I've never really been a big fan, although I enjoy his short stories and I did like the Salem's Lot novel Well Done Mal, great thread
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Anne Rice for the Vampire Chronicles
Brian Lumley for the Necroscope series - I really enjoyed these :-) |
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I don't read much horror. But the one author I've enjoyed is Stephen King. His epics, The Stand and the more recent Under The Dome are great reads, but his numerous other books are great as well.
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April 30th, 2010, 09:17 PM | #7 |
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Dracula (1897)
Horror isn't really my preferred genre so my exposure to writers in the horror/supernatural field is limited. That's a bit odd because I love classic horror films. I still rate Dracula as the most sophisticated and subtle horror novel I have ever read (I'm ashamed to admit I haven't read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein). Dracula is a story told mostly in letters and diary entries, so we get a cross-section of first person viewpoints, and Bram Stoker realises each male and female personality with seamless ease, possibly drawing on his skills as a theatrical impressario. The book is a window into the fears and paranoia of a deeply repressed society, where sexuality is associated with sin and disease: the vampire symbolises the theme of predatory wickedness and contamination, the wages of sin being Undeath.
The early section where poor unsuspecting solicitor's clerk Jonathan Harker visits Count Dracula's castle on his employer's business (Dracula is a client) and gradually discovers that he is the only living soul in that vast and ruinous pile is quite brilliantly written, as is the ships log of the Demeter, the unlucky Russian sailing ship which sails itself neatly into Whitby's narrow little harbour past the nasty rocks which guard it, but has only the dead captain tied to the ship's helm. Dracula has preyed on all the others but the captain has surrounded himself with the necessary crucifixes, garlic etc to ward him off and chosen to die of thirst rather than be the vampire's prey. I am reminded of the legend of the plague ship which sailed into Weymouth harbour in 1348 and brought the Black Death to England: some historians think that more than a third of the population of the British Isles died. Stoker had a very sensitive understanding of where the raw nerves, the folk memories live on and how to invoke them.
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One of my favourite genres, lots of great books, and plenty short stories.
Off the top of my head my current favourites are. M R James H P Lovecraft James Herbert Brian Lumley Graham Masterton |
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Peter Straub
For anyone not familiar with his work, this guys writing will send a genuine chill up your spine.
Some his finest works are Ghost Sory, The Throat & Mr X
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I assume then Wendigo, that you've read Masterton's Edgewise on the evidence of your psuedonym If not you must read it, it's a cracking story
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