/lit/ - Literature

Neil Gayman sucks.

Stephanie Meyer. Her books are chilling.

On a serious note, the Bronte sisters, maybe?

Shirley Jackson.

My god, Shirley Jackson.

M. R. James was a writer of "ghost stories" (not yet called horror) in England about 100 years ago. His stories are extremely well-written and varied, as well as being chilling.

Bentley Little.
If you like King Little is your man. I suggest "The Town" or "The Resort" as an opener

Anyone read Keene yet?

Oh, and T. E. D. Klein's short stories and novelettes, collected a long time ago in "Dark Gods", is good.

But the best horror writer is one who, for various excellent reasons, no one on 4chan is likely to have heard of. His n

> Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco
Weirdly, darkly horrific, but more disturbing and sickening than scary.

> Tony Burgess, Pontypool Changes Everything
Naw naw naw naw naw I'm just joshin yo. It's not really horror, it's more of a postmodern linguistic experiment with zombies. A couple of parts stood my hair up, though.

Joseph Conrad, he wrote "The Horror, The Horror"

Gaiman doesn't really write horror as such. I've heard people call it urban fantasy?
I don't think horror translates very well to text, but the obvious cannon would include Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, and H.G. Wells, among others. Many horror films are actually based on novels, so try looking up the wiki page for some of your favorite horror films and see what there is to see.

THOMAS LIGOTTI

>>1716647
I've looked him up. My college library doesn't even have a single one of his books.

Richard Laymon, Jack Ketchum, Clive Barker. Take a journey with me back to the glory days of horror in the late '90's and we'll throw in Michael McDowell and Kathe Koja.

RL Stine.

Dean Koontz used to be popular among people who'd run out of Stephen King.
There's a Brit pulp horror author called Shaun Hutson who wrote a book called Slugs about brain-eating slugs.
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Horror is so not my genre. I get it the same way I get my romance, cut with whatever I'm actually reading.

The Books of Blood by clive barker are great.

We are all books of blood. When we are opened we are red.

Sepulchre by James Herbert( Favorite horror book so far)
The Black Train by Edward Lee

>Gaiman
>good at anything

Ayn Rand
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>>1716651

He's damn hard to find. Inter-library loan and out of a 26-campus network there were only 4 books of his.

cabal

>>1716716
>Quentin
Pfff

I don't get why folks like Clive Barker. His stuff is really boring and the writing is average.

>>1716764

I read him for the sex scenes.